SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S LATEST

Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 4

SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S LATEST

NEW SONG HITS AND DANCES It seemed like vaudevillians’ “ Old Home ” week on the ‘ Little Miss Broadway ’ set at Twentieth CenturyFox. As a former stage player himself, Director Irving Cummings knows the plight of the variety headliners, but not until he was assigned to direct the new Shirley Temple musical did he have a chance to do anything about it. The script of ‘ Little Miss Broadway,’ which will be commenced at the Octagon to-morrow, calls for an hotel full of out-of-work variety artists, and that was all that Cummings needed. In the featured cast are Jimmy Durante, El Brendel (who was a high favourite from Saskatchewan to Keokuk), Eddie Collins (who toured the variety circuits for 13 years until he got his chance to model for “ Dopey,” most popular of the seven dwarfs), and Donald Meek (who was in vaudeville when it used to be called “ variety ”). Ten years ago George Barbier toured the circuits in sketches. Syd. Saylor is a former tight-rope walker with 17 years’ balancing experience. Hank Mann toured the Sullivan and Considine circuits until 1913, when he became one of the original “ Keystone Cops.” Another member of the “ Keystone ” force was Heinie Conklin, who was in vaudeville for 10 years. And so talk of the old days and the glories of the Palace Theatre in New York. 1)10000 of all variety people, filled the set. George Murphy. Durante, Phylis Brooks, and Edna Mae Oliver are featured in Shirley’s supnorting cast. Six new song hits bv Bullock and Suiua nrovide the score for ‘ Little Miss Broadway.’