Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1937 — Page 14

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Down a flight of steps, and then “Splash!” into Lake Erie, go the ranks of swimming-dancing girls in Billy Rose’s Aquacade at Cleve-

Arms rising and falling in time to the music, the | “swimming chorus,” of the Aquacade performs in-

floating stage.

Billy Rose’s Show Is Combination of Revue, Operetta, Night Club and Hippodrome And Is Definitely New.

By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Writer

CLEVELAND, June 11.—With all Lake Erie stretching darkly across

to Canad

as-a backdrop, with 60 pairs of arms rising and falling rhyth-

micaily in the water between stage and audience, the Great Lakes Exposition is making theatrical history at each performance of Billy Rose’s

Aquecade.

Nothing quite like this combination of musical extravaganza, operetta, diving] and swimming show, night club, and outdoor hippodrome

has ever i put on the stage be-¢ fore.

Spectacular effects of diving and swimming in unison of duet “dance” numbers

when Johnny

Weissmuller and Eleanor Holm do an aquatic Astaire-Rogers to music, with arms cleaving the water in intricate patterns, together with

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every night.

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| every trick of ensemble dancing and tableau known to past masters like John Murray Anderson and Robert Alton—all plus a huge floating stage—make the Aquacade unique.

Shiver in Sympathy

s New York drama critics shivered in sympathy as platoons of swimmers drew themselves dripping out of the lagoon, whose temperature was just above 50 degrees. Lake Erie

warms up slowly in the spring. The audience, filling 2000 seats at tables and 3000 piain seats, warms up faster as the pageantry unrolls before them,

The show makes plentiful use of the sort of flashy massed costume numbers that Anderson created in the Greenwich Village and Ziegfeld Follies. Then winches get to work and begin to tow the whole gigantic stage over toward Canada, leaving a broad lagoon between audience and stage. And the chorus, marching sedately down a set of steps in columns of fours, plunges into the water and goes right on with the

.dance routine in the water, keeping

perfect time with the music and maneuvering with almost as great precision as on the dry stage. Shrug at Shower of Rain Olympic diving champions Dick Degener, Marshall Wayne, Sammy Howard, Helen Howard, and Bill Northrup demonstrate their prowess from various stages of the 60foot diving towers at each side oa the stage. Revolving stages mounted on barges change the sets from California to Florida without a halt in the performance. Phosphorescent costumes glow in the dark, and frilly chorines shrug at a shower of rain, their costumes already wate®proofed against the dangers of the floating stage. All the back-stage confusion of a great musical show is multiplied here, with 450 performers milling

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about among dressing rcoms mounted on the same barges that support the stage. The trim Miss Holm, dripping like a seal, is greeted at the landing stage by a maid who immediately swathes her in a huge bathrobe and steers her into a tiny wooden dressing room for a change of costume. Whole files of “chorusmen” emerge from the lake and shake themselves as they reach for a bathrobe. Johnny Weissmuller, in sheer joy at swimming again, takes a dive off the back edge of the float, unseen by the audience. Whole platoons of frilly chorines and show-girls pick their way across the float, trying to find a dry path where dripping swimmers have not trod. Sails and Booming Gunboats

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