“SING SING FOLLIES”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 146, 17 January 1933, Page 5

“SING SING FOLLIES”

MURDERERS p»S COMEDIANS

New York, Dec. 4:—All over the world, from Pans to Peking, tragel ian a are yearning to be comedians, ana comedians want to don tug mask, of tragedy, but they must have themselves sent to bing thug, prison to have their dreams come trtte'. Sing has had a dres s rehearsal of ”’iue thug thug Poiues of prior to a weeks run, with a cast ot luO white and negro inmates. The latest feature of the American, crime unoerwonu i s *‘gun nioils' bngut young women or the underworld who naiuile revolvers With the same nonchalance as tuey handle lipsticks. The cuiief skit of the Sing Sing revue featured “gun molls”—prisoners dressed in red tarn o’ shanters, check skirts and liesh coloured stockings—and three convicts realistically made up as toughs iu striped sweaters, peg top trousers and caps. Two tragedians in real life —one of them murdered a restaurant keeper and the oilier so frightened a girl typist in an office hold up that she dived nights down lilt shaft to her death —were the light comedians, scoring heavily with a song and dance number. ' < ..K % Other convicts, who had figured In the lighter forms of crime, had themselves cast for. heavy parts in the revue. There was to have been a number with performers dressed as soldiers handling real rifles with the vital parts removed, but the mess whistle blew, anti this number was cut out.