"FUNZ-A-POPPIN-"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 4

"FUNZ-A-POPPIN-"

American Revue

A feature of the performance of the all-American revue company, iunz-a remarkable performance by swing Seers butterfly dancers, clowns, aexobats, and singers; and themanon-; ette that smokes is sheer magic Two. comedians, Harry Ross and Eddie Edwards, who have been performing together for no fewer than 18 years, art also outstanding performers. Ctaly two other partnerships m the showbusiness have had such a long runWebber and* Fields, and Van and Schenk-Van and Schenk now being dead. Ross and Edwards are typical American performers, and till coming to Australia and New Zealand had not played outside the . United States They have worked with Rudy Vallee in his radio programme inNewYork and with Kate Smith over the Columbia and the National Broadcasting system. Performers must be stars before they can be included in these programmes. They played for five consecutive years in the Paramount Public Theatres, and have appeared m pictures. Years ago they worked with Mary Pickford as a vaudeville act, after she had divorced /Douglas Fairbanks. Alexander- Gerber, producer of "Funz-a-Poppin," is the man who wrote plays and composed songs for Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, and Fanny Brice. Mr. Gerber's song, "Fung-a-Pdppin," was specially written for the coming show. Headliners in the. revue include Tommy ("Bozo") Snyder, noted Broadway pantomime comedian; Murray Green and Elsa Lang, musical comedy artists; Jack Bickle, youthful dance star; Loretta Grey, pepper pot comedian; June and Trundell Van, Hollywood twins; Dorothy j Holbrook. leading dancer with the, Twelve Dancing Debutantes, £Cli:-1 brated dance team from the New York i Radio City Music Hall; the Carr Bros;. ( Elsa Hoskins; Keith Connolly; and an; old friend, Bobby Morris, recently in I Wellington with the "Hollywood Hotel" ! Revue. An orchestra under Joseph Clauser is another feature of a startling show, produced on spectacular, lines. I