Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 16 | Orpheum Bill Offers Stage, Film Comedy

Orpheum Bill Offers Stage, ? Film Comedy Comedy rules the screen and the boards at the Orpheum theater's Bew bill, which opened Wednesday. The tables are turned in tbe feature fea-ture film, "Super Sleuth," and ln- atead of having auave andall- knowtng screen sleuth and a bunch of dumb coppers working on a mys-" mys-" tery It is just the opposite. Jack Oakie plays the part of a " nutty" acreen detective In "Super Sleuth," a movie about the movies. Solves" Case Oakie la cast as a screen star whose specialty la detective roles. . He has played so many of these parts ha actually believea he is a , detective and when a "poison pen" " wave hits Hollywood he starts out en the solution, meanwhile ribbing the police department unmercifully. Finally, Oakie himself ia marked , by the murderer and when a bullet intended for him kills a fellow . actor, things get serious. Oakie aolvea the case . . . purely by accl-.dent. accl-.dent. Ann Sothern Is eofeatured with Oakia as the studio press agent who knows the screen eleuth for the dumbbell he Is, but loves firm anyhow. Eduardo Clanelli, the meanis who caused shudders as Throck in "Winters," plays the poison pen gentleman. Stage Show Ia Fun The stage show Is distinctly on the fun side. Manning and Mltsie open the bllL Mltaie is a trained dog that follows his maatsr through a aeries of "drank" gyrations, then winds up With a aeriea of remarkable handstands, hand-stands, or, more properly, paw-stands. paw-stands. Prince and Princess Selandla start off their act with a waits, out go Into a routine of how the tango would be danced In different countries. By th tlm they get down to Germany, with the male member of the team transforming himself Into a near-perfect like- "ness of Hitler, the audience is howling. Bob Blarkner, Utah tenor, brings In the only aerioua note and the bill la topped off by Senator Murphy, who givea the lowdown on what's wrong with th country and a lot of other things, in a political spiel Uhat reminds one of th horrors to com In November. By Woodbury and his swing band are right on the job with a new band act It'a Woodbury's Idea of how Old King Cola enjoyed his "music and if the audience doesn't roll in th alslea something's wrong. A new March of Time, sound - news and a colored cartoon com- plate the ahow.