Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1930, Page 118

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 6, 1930. Vaudeville in the Sticks By W. E. Hill. (Copyright, 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) One of Helen Kane's thousand and one fol- lowers has just gone “poopfh foopfh™ right square in her male partner’s face and he's pretending to remove the attendant moisture. The girl act, showing six and one-half members of a dancing unit doing art poses on the trapeze while the house orchestra renders “A Kiss in the Dark.” After the last show the girls will go home to the hotel room and finish their laundry work. This act is just like a great big family—one-hali the ;x‘u;; not being on speaking terms with the other alf. wp i f so sis 'Hare and Prang, “The Society Girl and the College Boy,” bre 3 ¢ § Afy 2 The Delfords, Joe and Coralie. have a some- 4 R CRC I St g e (whichis the middie of the might for us vaudeville actresses) ) : K what different balancing routine. Joe comb house manager, greeting friends in on account of an early train to the next stand. Mabcl, the waitress, has ; Ay i feats of skill on the ladder with refined clown he lobby. : no illusions about vaudeville actors at 7:30 in the morning. e ik while Coralie, a-top Joc's shoulders. gives an the lobby. ; pression of how Miss M “Tiptoe Through the Tulips, it. To see Coralie right now you'd never think she had a care in the world. And yet at the moment Coralie is having to decide whether or no it's worth while to tip any one back-stage on Saturday night, seeing as how she and Joe may Gertie and Billy are the names of these never piay this hick town again. two lovely town girls. They are pausing in the lobby to put two traveling sales- men in their place. The salesmen have been too fresh for words. Gertic and Billy are just crazy to make what is known in the small towns as “wuppie” this evening, and, besides, they hate the idea of walking that long three blocks home. Maybe the traveling men have a car with them! it e The Three Co-Eds close harmonizing on “Have a Little Faith in Me.” Though not really truly sisters, the girls get on just beautiful together. Reba, Dottie (*Cud- dles”) and Iona are their names. Iona (right end) is the cut-up of the trio. While Reba and Dottie are singing “Cupid Has Stolen My Heart” Iona will yell right out before everybody, and right in the middle of Reba’s and Dottie’s most delicate strains, “Take back your heart; I ordered bol-og-na!" lona practically manages the act, the other girls depending on her for everything. They are dreamers and not the least bit practical, so if a booking agent has to be beaten up, or a hotel clerk’s eye blacked, Why, it's always Iona who has to do it. Meet the Dibble (amily—grzndm-. Bonnie Lou, grandpa and mamma—who go every week to Just three young bloods of the town highly appre- the vaudeville. They arrive in time for the supper show and stay right through till 11:30, when ciative of the comic girl in the sister act, who is making the theater is locked for the night. The Dibbles like to conte early, get good seats and hang If)clxeve pull a spike from her anatomy after a comic stage on to them. s G rew (W o)