Show Audience Likes Entertainment In Il Orpheum's Frolics o of 1950 By CANDID KAY i iOne One or of two things Is true or of The or of 1950 the current stage show at the Orpheum theater eIther Salt Lake is starved for stage I entertainment or I am wrong Both are possible For For a theater full of Salt Lake men women and children found amusement in the revue at least they laughed and applauded which to me wa was decidedly second rate To e fair the thc management ot of the theater confided that an accident ot of some sort had befallen the troupe en route to SlIt Salt Lake and that aside from removing three of oC the best performers perform perform- ers from the thc cast for a couple of shows anyway it had greatly upset upset up- up set the general routine of things That probably accounted for lor the ragged presentation of what talent there was for a stage show sho at the last minute mn may result in errors that a little time can straighten out Perforce I must base my review on what I saw not what the possibilities in the show are Dog DOl StealS Show To begin with I cant can't Identify the various acts by name for the master of ceremonies likewise unidentified neglected to mention such trifles as I names in his introduction ot the various va va- rious acts Music of the show is furnished by Clela Kane and her Kit Kat club orchestra and anda a trio of feminIne crooners I If you like your humor on the suggestive suggestive sug- sug side the Russian blackout black black- out and a gentleman who ers a monologue and bangs the piano take care ot of that U If you like out a out d-out slapstick the unit uni uni- t t- cyclist hes he's really clever on on the vehicle and pansy ansy one of tho those horse imitations fill the bill Dancing is through the courtesy of a graceful acrobatic toe dancer and two gentleman and a ayoung ayoung young lady who tap Lobo a trained police dog rates Individual mention not only because he hc had stage presence and was a bit of a comedian In his own way but followed the conversation conversational con con- ll instructions ot of his master with uncanny accuracy What it If it was a trick of mcm mcm- or ory It was entertaining It Il been the painters painter's day off olt for the advertised ad Venus in Bronze casually walked on the stage during the finale In her birthday suit a green hat shoes gloves and what what- sit You may call it art or entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment but I call it the vulgarity of a burlesque strip act Main street in Salt L Lake lkc isn't the Main street of other cIties Film Is Success at Any Price is an enter enter- so by the work of Douglas Fairbanks Jr Colleen Moore Genevieve Tobin and that grand actor Frank Morgan And although al al- though they appeared infrequently the supporting cast w was s excellent The improvement in the work of Junior F Fairbanks is remark able He turned in a first class performance s Joe Martin MarUn a kid from the other side of the tr tracks whose goal is money and power Ruthlessly he strides toward and achieves that goal only to find the fruit ot of his success is bitter indeed The story is fetched farfetched but his t Master of poise and clever in shading a a. character Morgans Morgan's Mr Merritt Joes Joe's world the boss was wasa a genuine treat Miss Moore and Miss Tobin play the respective roles ot of the good little girl who wants Joe and the bad little girl who gets him They Said Hollywood Is a desert when youre oure looking for brains brain Cecil Cedi B. B FLEETING F FAME Remember Broadway Melody Even after five years it stands as one of the outstandIng musical hits hUs ot of the silver screen And this despite the fact that the talkies were pretty much the thc in those sound pio- pio days Bessie Love Anita Page and Charles King were the stars and what stars stars-of f that production Today Today To- To day they're has has-beens e ens now among the forgotten what brought all this up Is that M is planning to make The Broadway Melody ot of on 1934 on ona a much LARGER scale of course It will have the ultimate in elaborate sets m music sic and whatnot and and will have an ENORMOUS cast including Joan Crawford Clark Gable Jean Harlow Una Merkel Myrna Loy and Franchot Tone Uh huh and it was the novelty and simplicity of the original Broadway Melody that made it great enough to stand the memory test ot of five years SIc semper o 0 S FOR VISITING FIREMEN Richard Barthelmess' Barthelmess name Is listed in the Los Angeles tee tele phone one directory ne of the extremely ex- ex few stars stars' names you ou can find there However theres there's a joker to It If you dial the given number you'll get his business office ollice not his home He lists his number o that visitors who are n really friends can reach him JOE DOAKES TO HER DER Theres There's one gal in Hollywood whom Ricardo Cortez cant can't impress that much In fact he is just Jo Joe Doakes to her and in the game they played he ran up the score of no hIts no runs and three errors She's a hat check girl in one of the popular night spots pots On a recent visit he ask asked d her to sew the tack loop In his overcoat t. t She replied she had rio no needle and thread He then demanded that the coat be placed on ona ona a hanger She had no hanger In ex he insisted that she care fully fold the coat He Vas politely but firmly informed it If he wanted the coat folded he had belt better r do it him him- sell self And was the great lovers lover's face pinkish |