HOLLYWOOD HOTEL.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 6

HOLLYWOOD HOTEL.

Bright American Revue. _____' ■ v.

"Hollywood Hotel," a fast-moving; talent-packed musical stage : show, which will open tonight at the Grand Opera House, is headed by. three comedians, Marty May, Murray Briscoe, Bobby Morris. It includes foujf dance teams—-Jack and June Blair, Jack Whitney, the Snake Dancers, and the Big Apple Dancers, eight American negroes who bring Harlem to Wellington^ The singers are Magda Neeld, star of Jack Hilton's Continental Band. and Robert Berry, from Radio City Music Hall. The comedienne. Wilnier Homer, is the famous stand-in for Claudette Colbert from Paramount studios, Hollywood. There is also Park and Clifford, whose muscular acrobatic rhapsody specialty- is one of the high lights of the show. The 40 Hollywood Honies, a troupe of talented American dancers, trained by Chester Hale from the Roxy Theatre, New York, are surrounded by glittering scenes, designed and created by Clark Robinson (designer of the World's Fair, New York City), including the "Switchboard of the Hollywood Hotel," "'The Tribute to Ziegfeld," in which one remembers ten musical comedies, including "Rio Rita," "Sally," "Whoopee," "The Three Musketeers." "Rosalie," and "Show Boat." All this mixed in the melting pot of- revue to the strains ,of Mack G. Davis's band and you have "Hollywood Hotel." Box plans ai*e it the. D.I.C. H where ?s 6d I arid^ss seats hiay- be"feserv_a: 2s 6d day sales are at the sweet shop next to the Opera House. ;■ Hollywood Premiere. - The management of the "Hollywood Hotel" revue 'announces "its intention of presenting a "Hollywood Premiere" in front of the theatre at .7.30-tonight. The entire company of sixty-Ameri-can performers will arrive at the theatre, which will be specially floodlit for the occasion, in limousines. The girls will be dressed to /impersonate some of the well-known film stars. The entire proceedings will be broadcast into the street by the management's own sound system. This is belieVed to be the first "premiere"-,-tO be held in Wellington, and an entertaining evening should be assured. J. ;