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Show Roxy Theater Has Versatile Boy on Stage Sawed off Billy Barty, youngster from Hollywood. Is the big attraction attrac-tion on the new Roxy theater program, pro-gram, which opened Monday. Curly topped and blond, Billy Is an instant hit with his versatile stunts as a drummer boy. acrobat and comedian. Ills stooge In Tnosl Instances Is Fat Leyman. and' between be-tween the two ofthem the program certainly has tlie'blg and little of It. It is improbable that Billy can register over SO pounds with his hands in his pockets, while Leyman tips the scales at a mere 325 pounds, but he makes more fun of his weight than anyone, and it pays him a good living, so why worry? Billy also has his two sisters on the program, one a violinist and the other a pianist. Quite a family orchestra when they all get going together. The Roxy vaudeville program also Includes a lithe young dancer in Audrey Dennison. Her acrobatic posing dance is an unusual novelty. The Rhythm Boys feature a German Ger-man band number In their vocalising, vocalis-ing, and Art Simpson comes down out of the orchestra to go completely complete-ly "screwy" with Joe Lewis, the guest orchestra conductor. In an-' an-' other laugh number. The screen program includes There Goes My Girl." with Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern. and "23't Hours Leave." a hilarious comedy com-edy about life in the army. |