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In Hollywood—

Vaudeville Back In Film Land

Returns to the Orpheum And Nostalgia Is Hip Deep

thé: land of the movies. comeback official. Los Angeles.

outs.” But Ken's acts were the same, week after week,

a-day basis. : The Orpheum was the home of vaudeville in southern California during its golden era but movies| and popcorn took over the Orpheum just like they took over all the other vaudeville houses of America. -

the Orpheum-and -the nostalgia

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9—Vaudeville just returned to I guess that makes vaudeville's It's now flourishing from New York to

Some people credit Ken Murray with bringing vaudeville back to movieland in his long-running show, ‘“Black-

land the show was on a one-| L sible for vaudeville’s comeback.

But now vaudeville {8s back at;

insisted to the extent he thought they should.

They say ‘television is respon-

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SHERRILL, C. * CORWIN is the! man behind the return of vaudeville. to the land of the movies. He's the general manager of the Orpheum ' and has been for 13

* with Bing *

PENDLETON PIKE

EXCITEMENT!

One of the great emotional experiences of a Jifetimel

THERE MAS NEVER BEEN A MOTION PMCTURE LIKE...

THIS IS A WOR. ts hi ’ 2 colon 8Y ed p deep. years. Actually he's been nurs _ STED GABAR. CE {ing vaudeville along, with an oc- TECHNICOLOR! %4 DINE, double. THERE will be a weekly casional four-a-day, for the last ad ewiied. ond change of eight vaudeville acts 13 years, a Shwe Y3tiial =. 1. AS Suiky plus a first-run movie. The movie{ But now he's doing it up right, | Nem Great Hit Seu FA Proguttion y he sleek-lined in will be there because Holly Wood Turin vent of the old Orpheum'’s v Misses” and Jun- hasn't given up yet, gaslight era when Lillian Russell, 4 MARCH OF TIME ; ior Sizes. A good many Hollywood stars|the Four Cohans, Modjeska and fH BIE alovVs N Rewrved Subs 8

passed through the wings of the Richard Mansfield shared the ——ess— SHOFpheUn-Stage-—on-thelr-way- to biting. ; iL greater stardom. Like all of vaudeville's old-

Frank Sinatra sang there as timers, Corwin likes to remember

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one-quarter of the “Hoboken Quartet” in one of the muchmaligned Major Bowes amateur units.’

y 5 8 There was a singer named Frances Gumm who became

gen with a dummy that then

with a fiddle before he learned “Love in Bloom” and Bill Demarest who did nip-ups and a cello at the same time. Maybe Bill could do better trying to catch a marlin swordfish if he'd serenade ‘em with his. cello.

a..0 4 AND THERE was the late Tom Mix at every opening night. Mix always bought two seats—one for himself and one for his giant Stetson. Andy Hervey, who was the Orpheum's press agent at the time remembers: ‘ hat

Judy Garland and Edgar Ber- | {Dawn was headlining had no name and Jack Benny |pheum show -and rehearsing a)

earlier that

when. The story he likes to remember best is this one: There's an old unwritten law in|

vaudeville that whoever first re-| hearses a number established pri-|

ority to its use in any given show, One day a singer ‘named Hazel

the Or-

number, * ‘Bete Maye.”

LATER ow the aay, the drum-|

mer in the Orpheum’s pit orchestra, who also did an occasional

{vocal, went to Corwin's office and

announced that he had been in mornihg- and - rehearsed “Bgseme Mucho.” He claimed the right to prevent Hazel from singing the number in the show. “It’s impossible,” said Corwin. “Traditfon or no tradition, law or no law, Miss Dawn -

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