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Show Show Still Goes On At Least In Memory ! r T o tr- k " Jw "V C 1 y i i - - ' - WuUfflA u lAB.GELL.A V ""fKihjsartnruUiuvTy whnVmHi-i"reunii Ro Jie, Huj-Jin'uruM in Two Troupers Find Country Has Not Forgotten Stage New York City. There has been much sentimental sorrowing by both critics and craftsmen over the fact that the present generation genera-tion growing up in American cities never has, and probably never will, know the American stage. Some say that the few stock com panies on the road and the popularity popu-larity of the sound pictures have combined to make the legitimate theater merely something that father and mother talk about in recalling "the good old days." "I doubt it, though," declares Helen Handin of The Two Troupers, Troup-ers, and Marcella Shields, the other Trouper backs her up. "Anyway, if it is so, there are left enough old-timers familiar with the stage to know what we are talking about when we put on our act over the radio." The two girls were actually troupers for several years, and now are making the country chuckle chuc-kle with sketches of their experi ences on the road with various theatrical companies, told in clever clev-er sketch and song over the air. "Waltzin' 'Kound With Rosie," a waltz song they frequently sing is typical of the "show girl melodies" mel-odies" which the Troupers declare "must be cracker jack dance tunes and must have lyrics which are hum dingers. None of these pop songs that just have a good melody for us. Our lyrics must mean something, some-thing, too." The Troupers' fan mail is eloquent elo-quent evidence that there are still many Americans, both young and old, in every section of the country familiar with the show business and appreciate their art. And the young ones are still ambitious to become part of that business. The Troupers have answered hundreds of letters from boys and girls all over the country who long to become be-come Romeos or Juliets. "The sound pictures and the radio have played and will play a big part in the lives of Americans, but the stage will live on and there will always be an audience waiting wait-ing for the troupers when they hit the road," optimistically insist Helen and Marcella. |