ONE OF “TWO BLACK CROWS”

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1934, Page 20 (Supplement)

ONE OF “TWO BLACK CROWS”

KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT. All of those in the world who have laughed over that gramophone classic in negro dialogue, “The Two Black Crows,” will regret to learn that Carle E. Mack, a famous comedian, of Moran and Mack, was killed in a motor accident at Mesa, Arizona, on January 11. Mr. Mack, who was motoring with his wife, daughter, and partner, was crushed as the car rolled over, following a tire blow-out. He was conveyed to the nearest hospital, but died almost at once. Moran escaped injury, but both Mrs. Mack and Miss Mary Jane Mack were slightly injured.

Mack, who was the big man of the team, was the one with the tired air, and the plaintively querulous voice. Who cannot recall his question (in answer to his partner’s chance remark to the effect that the early bird catches the worm): “Which worm? Why is the bird early ?” The late Mr. Mack was bom at White

GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND f PLOT IN GEORGE ROBEY SHOW. I met George Robey a few days ago coming out of a cinema where he had been watching himself in a short film. He told me that his new musical show “Here’s How I” which is now in rehearsal, will not after all be in revue form, writes the theatre correspondent of an English exchange. “There is to be a plot,” George said. “Quite topical, in fact—since it concerns three American bootleggers who, put out of business by the killing of Prohibition, set off for England with the idea of engineering Prohibition here as an outlet for their talent. Yes, you will see eas a Prohibitionist—of sorts!”

Cloud, Kansas, on November 22, 1887. He commenced commercial life as a newsboy, developed a sense, of. humour by daily contact with the crowds, became a negro minstrel, and so -to a partnership, Garvin and Mack. Later he split with Garvin, and took on Moran, a team that was soon in “The Passing Show,” “The Scandals,” and “Greenwich Follies.” They also played a 14-week season in London. Mrs. Mack, mother of the comedian, was known as the champion mouth-organ player of the State of Kansas. The Versatile Mae. Mae West proved to Hollywood that she is the most versatile woman in America during the filming of her new Paramount picture, “She Done Him Wrong,” coming to the Opera House on Wednesday. This prolific star, who wrote the script for her first starring vehicle, has always written her own stage plays, has published two novels, authored the lyrics for several of the songs composed for her new picture, and, besides, turns out sketches and material for other performers in her spare time.

“That Girl with a Shawl.” Sally Eilers says she thinks the greatest disappointment of her career was one that occurred a few years ago. She had just been elected a Wampas Baby Star, and Buddy Rogers, then one of the biggest motion picture favourites, had asked her to accompany him to a Hollywood premiere. She bought a gown she couldn’t afford, also a beautiful Spanish shawl, and spent most of the day getting ready for the event. She turned the radio in at the right station for her mother and father, so they could hear her name when it was announced in the forecourt of the theatre. Grandly she stepped out of Buddy’s limousine. “And now, ladies and gentlemen of my radio audience,” importantly stated the announcer, “entering the forecourt for this wonderful premiere we have none other than Buddy Rogers and a girl with a Spanish shawL”