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PAGE TWO Your Main Street And Mine ~By~ArTrahern lO A LETTER from sending recent clippings from Kansas Ci t y Star, yanked me back to the days when we carried papers for that publication. We went our separ ate ways when he started busi ness in a hole, in the-wall news Boppert I ;rom the I NOfiTHPOET JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2,1939 Amusements For The Week stand and I i s prope: Attractive Vaudeville ’ufe as the background. U is that I . , a . 'I'l i story of Cora Jordan, millian- And Pictures At The Huntington Theatre ling repertoire troupe. I get £ ick out of the clippings sent be. cause it seems funny to n anyone who has actually in the same > me that ; who has actually stayed spot for forty as The Star clippii “When Joe Boppert opens his newsstand tomorrow morning he will have rounded out forty years of business at the same old stand 1226 Main street. In all that tim< Mr. Boppert points out, he never seem very far from his store, and his store has never known a fire, a robbery or a failure. At one time his store was the down town agency for The Star imong the newsboys who llected their papers from him were Noah Berry and Wallace ' DON'T KNOW music is why they ar cessful is the claim of the vocal swing group known to radio fans as the Merry Macs,acs, who are in person; Judd, Joe and Ted Me M who < Michael, and Helen Carroll, and the fact that they know notl of music is the reason for th< success in swing numbers. The Merry Macs think if they had had a formal music educa tion it would have hampered their natural style of singing and taken the edge off their spontan eity and sparkle. ■The voices of the three broth ers, Judd, Ted and Joe, are pret-| ty much in the same pitch, wh< they added a fourth voice the nat ural choice should have been you haven't been attend ing the vaudeville entertainments iry weekend at the Hunting. . Theatre you cannot realize what yo\j are missing, for the Huntington is staging the very best type of vaudeville with an exceptionally fine run of pic tures. To make the vaudeville even more attractive Willie Creager and his orchestra are on hand toplay the necessary musi cal numbers and that music alone is worth the admission. Vaudeville will be shown on 'Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and this weekend it will be ac companied by Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone in “The Hardys Ride High.” Judge Hardy, ad vised that as the great-great- grandson of Col. Standish Leeds, hero of the War of 1812, he is the likely heir to a fortune of $,000,- )vided he establi idge buildei and Bill Overton, han< young ne'er-do-well, who won a bet in his life, verge of marriage to luxury, Cora decides to own to find what she wants mos1 —love and happiness. While seeking a job, her path crosses Bill Overton, also jobless. When Bill sees Cora* “touch” a police man for fifty cents he realizes he has found his Lucky Star at last and together they set out to make ■a fortune overnight. Their esca pades include winning an auto mobile, capturing a bandit, re ceiving a thousand dollars re ward, a riot in a gambling place and marriage—which they cannot recall the morning after. On the same program an equal- . “Ex-Champ” with Lan, will be shown. 000, pro^ tain facts, prepa family to Detroit by is elated at the thoujght and his sister, Marian, expectant Aunt Miliy is to the point where she lavish new wardrobe lake his ' plane. Andy • of wealth equ^ly thrilled Comedy of Irish Country Life Re-opens at Roslyn Federal Theatre The New York State's Federal Theatre's production of J. Synge’s modem classic com< of Irich country life,, “The PI boy of the Western World,’’ open lavish new wardrobe and patron- ^ return engagement at the Thea- izes a beauty parlor. Only Moth. jhe Four Seiona, Koslyn, er Hardy and the Judge retain Thursday evening, June 1. Per- and do not ig to end, and has lich you will enjoy. “Lucky Night” which is one of pictures to be Mickey Rooney And The Hardy Family A I* KOITCnAVA their sense of values lost their heads, those pictures which thril holds the attention from 1 •ning to end, and has compile ■ the next t shown Monday, nesday and Thursday, mod- rie ' 5 eh« 1 rehea learse entire! as their_pwn. The foursbn ^iiy ear when rehearsing a-m tune, chiefly improvising aroi the melody. “After three or f hours’’ says Judd, “we get whal we want. I don't know how we tell, but it sounds just right t< When it “sounds right,’ tl Macs call in their arranger wl takes down the arrangement in sort of musical shorthand. Thoi they may never know what it is in, they never forget a num- THE STOCK COMPANY that moved into Zionsville, Ind., for a season’s run during the spring of 1910, charmed and bewitched one of the town’s promising citizens to the extent that he chucked up his medical books and decided to become an actor. That boy was Fred Sullivan, later to become popular as mas ter of ceremonies over the NBC networks. Fred took in about every show the stock company presented in Zionsville that sum mer. Before the show had left town he asked for a job, deter mined that acting, not the prac tice of medicine, was his forte. He got the job. By the time the season was oyer, Fred had progressed from Thursday evening, irmances will continue Thurs- iday and Saturc two or three nard Shaw’s riotous farce, “Great Catherine,” will be produced. The New York State’s produc tion of this fine Synge comedy opened at Roslyn on January 5. cut short because of commitments for performances at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and a road tour up. :ited quite the igh critical comment rewarded his performance. Given a play hat is an acknowledged m£ister- jiece, the actors, under the direc- ■ion of Dann Malloy, have reaeh- and attained, the clean heights of true characterization. I The first-string critics of the • 'hiladelphia Press weer of one;, in declaring this p in Feder L ^ 1 ^ J. -J''*** ______ AT THE NORTHPORT—THUR., FR1-, JUNE 7 and 8 ‘Broadway Serenade’ and Tygmalion’ At Northport Theatre This Week Nelson Eddy, Lionel ire, Victor McLaglen, Edwj i progre; lit parts to important had thus laid the foundatio: a thirty-year career on the spok en stage. In those thirty years, Sullivan played in stock in p tically every city of any Edmonton, Alta., to Hamilton, Bermuda. He w£is with James K. Hackett for ten years; with Har risop Grey Fiskei David Belasco and Klaw and Erianger. The slow decline of dramatic stock in the 20's and early 30’s found Sullivan “at liberty’’. He decided to try for a job in radio and was hired on the spot. Fred claims that studio audi. .ences give him stage admits it's strange for has spent 30 ed out to be property r THE BEST TYPE of humor for radio depends not upon the gags, as in the past, but upon situa tions, in the opinion of Bob Hope, old time vaudeville actor. Com edians must always be the butt of any funny story nowadays, as Jack Benny always is. Bob claims that Fred Allen is the only come dian who can get away with tell ing jokes for their 'own sake. Subscribe for the Journal. years on the stage, but explains it by adding that iny play presented before an audience without costume, seen, ery and props asks too much of the individual imagination. “Il lusion,” he says, “is c completel men and women reading lines to a microphone. That is one rea son that I await television impa tiently. It will once more make the stage i engineer a portant.” eager, the lighting the prop boy im- The greatest incident in his stock experience was a special performance before President greatest thrill was ig delails of a famous kidnaping case in St. Paul when he looked up from his script to see two strangers walk in bear ing machine guns. The men turn- broa'dcastinj OPENING THURSDAY, JUNE 1st Continuous Bach Thurs., Fri., Sat., at 8:50 Federal Theatre for New York State Presents Return Engagement “THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD’ By J. M. Synge DIRECTED BY DANN MALLOY N e w S u m m e r P r i c e s 25c — 55c COMING—“SHAW’S “GREAT CATHERINE” WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION declaring tl tops in Federal pr< [lions scen-thcre. Henry Murdock if the Evening Ledger lart,-- ^ • there we were Saturday 'ederal Theatre was giving ’layboy of the Western Wor-i. . —- letter than did the Abbey Play- ^ irs. The WPA boys and girls c lured all the cadences >eech, all the satire • • • all the j ght the flavor of the \ t'ish idiom.' The excellent Roslyn is heade< Taude Black as Christopher in. the Playboy of the title, isa Virgilia Chew as Margaret ^ •n Mike, 'laherty, called iery, loveable deep romance when Cl s into her life. Others v lontribute notable performances j ^ -Jnclude Walter Jones as Old Mah- ' — I on, Rose Morison as Widow ■rty, Pegeen Mike’s father, also rank Daly as Shawn Keoi Victory, Ii Idine Lei R O S L Y N , L. I. N. Y.