ALL-AMERICAN REVUE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 7

ALL-AMERICAN REVUE.

"Funz-a-Poppin'" Coming

A feature of the performance of the all-American revue company, "Funz-a-Poppin'," which will begin a season in the Opera House on Saturday, will be Salici's Parisian Puppets. In the puppet entertainment is a Neapolitan scene, with "men" and realistic effects, and this forms the background for a remarkable performance by swing dancers butterfly dancers, clowns, acrobats, and singers; and the marionette that smokes is sheer magic. Two comedians, Harry Ross and Eddie Edwards, who have been performing together for no fewer than 18 years, are also outstanding performers. Only two other partnerships in the show business have had such a long run-—Web-ber 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 in New York and with Kate Smith over the Columbia and the National Broadcasting System. They played for five consecutive years in the Paramount Public Theatres, and have appeared in pictures. Years ago they worked with Mary Pickford in 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, "Funz-a-PoppinV" 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 comedienne; June and Trundell Van, Hollywood twins; Dorothy Holbrook, leading dancer with the Twelve Dancing Debutantes, celebrated dance team from the New York Radio City Music Hall; the Carr brothers; Elsa Hoskins; Keith Connolly; and an old friend in Bobby Morris, recently in Wellington with the "Hollywood Hotel" Revue. An orchestra under Joseph Clauser is another feature of a startling show, produced on spectacular lines.