KENTUCKY MOONSHINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 4

KENTUCKY MOONSHINE

RITZ BROS. AT THEIR BEST.

The Ritz Brothers are just a trio of old Romans. They must be, because students of literature have come upon the observation of Seneca, the great Latin dramatist—and Seneca must have been watching Alvius, Harius and Jimius Ritzius. One readily can imagine the script calling for these three to be thrown to the lions in a Nero supercoliseum production . . . only to have them throwing the lions at the Homans. Because Seneca made the cogent remark: "There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. It’s been thus with the Ritz Brothers -—down through the ages. Back in their high school days at Brookly n iN.Y.) they drove the athletic director, bakl-hcaded bv their conception of the baseball rules. The treat that greelea the eyes of the school rooters will g< down in history. Sixty per cent of th; home team suddenly started building human pyramids to drop the ball through the net. Then the opposing t°am found three and four basketball; on the court at once. They founo Ritzes lying on their backs, standing on their heads or carrying the referee around on their shoulders. There arc some hiatuses in the history of the Clan Fitz between high school and their current stardom in "Kentucky Moonshine," which opens on Tuesday at the State Theatre. One can understand how they would pop up in Coney Island singing with Jimmy Durante al the piano.