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Show Cantor On A Roller Coaster Eddie Cantor is let loose in a gigantic amusement park in "Strike Me Pink," his sixth annua musical extravaganza for Samuel Goldwyn which plays at the Cameo Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, May 17, 18 and 19. Eddie is cast as a timid fellow who takes a correspondence course in acquiring ac-quiring a dominating personality and becomes manager of Dreamland Amusement Park. Here he be- comes involved with a gang of slot machine racketeers who have put every previous manager on ttie spot. The gangsters learn that Eddie secretly sec-retly adores a glamorous night club star, played by Ethel Merman. This lady is really the wife of one of their I number and they use her as a "come on" to trick Eddie into installing their fake slot machines. j I Sally Eilers, seen as Eddie's Dream- land sweetheart; Harry Parke, bet-, bet-, ter known as the Greek dialectician . Parkyakarkus of radio fame, Will-I Will-I iam Frawley and the 1936 crop of Goldwyn Girls are featured beside Ethel Merman in the comedy which Norman Taurog directed. Also prominent prom-inent in the cast are Helen Lowell, Gordon Jones, Brian Donlevy, Jack LaRue, Sunnie O'Dea and Rita Rio. "Strike Me Pink" is based on Clarence Clar-ence Budington Kelland's Saturday Evening Post story and novel, "Dreamland." Frank Butler, Walter De Leon and Francis Martin collaborated colla-borated on the adaptation and screen play. Harold Arlen and Lew Brown wrote the music and lyrics and Robert Alton directed the dances and ensembles. The dance numbers were photographed by Cregg Toland. The tuneful new song hits introduced intro-duced in the film include "First You Have Me High, Then You Have Me Low," "The Lady Dances," "The Calabash Pipe" and "Shake It Off." "Strike Me Pink" is released through United Artists. |