Connors and Paul Revue Co.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 2

Connors and Paul Revue Co.

CONNORS AND PAUL will bring their big Revue Company of 35 artists to Stratford next Saturday, February 13, at the Town Hall, and owing to the limited seating accommodation, intending patrons are requested to reserve their seats early at Clarke’s Music shop. At the head of the company is the well - know’ll stage and

screen comedian, George Wallace, and he is ably supported by Mike Connors and Queenie Paul, Minnie Love, Nellie Kolle, Leo Trenette, Lulla Failing, Jimmy Coates, Laurel Streeter, Rex and Bessie, the Russell Brothers, and the “Marcella Trio,” to mention a few of the principals, not forgetting the “Sunkis't Beauty Ballet,” whose dancing and frocking is really outstanding. The company has just concluded successful seasons in Auckland and Wellington, and will be sure of a warm welcome here, as it is not often an attraction of this size can include Stratford in its itinerary.

ROLE OF NAPOLEON.

Two hundred and six persons wanted to play Napoleon in Warner Bros. “Anthony Adverse,” coming to Stratford shortly. Sixty-seven were professional actors, 61 were college or dramatic students, and the rest had never on the stage but all had the Napoleonic mania. The man who won the role never even ask.ed for it! Director Mervyn Le Roy sent I lor him. Warners’ ace megaphonist | remembered him in a sketch he had | teen on the stage called “Napoleon’s Barber.” His name is Rollo Lloyd. After he had mad a test for the screen role, the 206 applicants were doomed to disappointment. Height, build, facial contours, everything was just like the little Cortican General.

WAITER v. KING. Mervyn L? Roy, producer director for Warner Bros., has just signed Alan Mowbray for one of the principal roles in “The King and the Chorus Girl,” the picture that will star the eminent French actor, Fernand Gravet who has. just arrived in America on the liner He De France. Gravet will be the “King” of the title; Joan Biondell will appear as the “Chorus Girl.” and it is understood that Mowbray’s part will be that of head waiter who is 'hired by the chorus girl as a pseudosuitor to make the king jealous. Edward Everett Horton has also been signed as a member of the brilliant cast that Mr Le Roy is assembling for his production.

READY, WILLING AND ABLE. In order to complete “Ready, Willing and Able” as quickly as possible, Busby Berkeley has been assigned.by Warner Bros., to direct one of ? the two big musical production numbers while Bobby Connolly, the other ace dance director of the studios, directs the other one. This is the first- time that Berkeley and Connolly, friendly rivals in original screen effects, have worked together on a picture. Ruby Keeler and Ross' Alexander head the cast of “Ready, Willing and Able” and among the supporting principals are Louise Fazenda, Carol Hughes, Winifred Shaw, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Hugh O’Connell and Shaw and Lee in a specialty number.

MY AMERICAN WIFE.

Proving that he can be just as. charming in chaps and spurs as he is in the uniform of a Hussar, Francis Lederer gives.' a gay. performance in Paramount’s forthcoming “My American- Wife,” in which he is costarred with Ann Sothern. Lederer end Miss Sothern, given a deft story by Elmer Davis and skilled direction by Paramount’*? Harold Young, demonstrate that they rank top among the screen’s romantic pairs. Assisting them in the cast are such brilliant performers as Fred Stone, cast as an Arizona pioneer who is antagonistic to the “furriner” married to his grand-daughter, Ernest Cossart, “gentleman’s gentleman” to Lederer and Grant Mitchell, modern banker son of the old Arizona settler.