The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-29

can play In the DanQ, TOO.
The Billboard's ad columns
are fruity with interesting mat
ter for the bibliophile whose di-
gestion is informal.
Ginnivan's Stock Company
wants, among other talent, g
man who can do specialties,
double in brass and drive
truck"
DR.. Bob McLain, Of Kenl-
mercr, Wyo., wants performers
for his medicine show but eau
tions "cripples and boozers' to
save their stamps IS "they are
the cause of this I'd. Standards
on the platform circuit are
creeping, ever onward and up
ward.
NV colleague, John DAILY, only
two Sundays ago benoaned the
passing Of the old time MINI
strels. Johns premise was right.
The real old-timers are either
drumming their lays on Styx
gondolas or they are reminiscing
IN felt slippers on verardas.
But there's minstrelsy abroad,
nevertheless. The sticks are full
Of them, just as they are still
dotted with 1Tom" troupes and
medicine shows. Now they
travel ~ motors. instead of
bunk cars. Such q one, Inherit
ing the name of an illustrious
forebear, seeks 3 partner with
small amount Of cash for the
Big Honey Boy Motorized White
Minstrel Show.
Your aesthetic nature Is baited
by q gentleman who has 200
genuine oil paintings Of Colorado
moonlight and campfire scenes
for sale 1t 81 each.
Sugar Hudson, Of Suffolk, Va,
advertises that he is q hot
and sweet tronbonist, can read
and fake and sing baritone and
bass. He's at liberty. A drum
mer with plenty of "cymbal
sock" also requires employment
while M. p. Snithberger, of
Jerusalem, Ohio, has a. freak
COW for sale, q bovine with its
heart in its neck. Not a con-
tented COW, evidently.
Enough material to supply a
small circuit of its own is Of
fered by McNally's Bulletin.
For 81 you get twenty-five
screaming nonologues; twelve.
roaring acts for two males; ten
original acts for male and fe-
male; fifty-three sure-fire paro-
dies; great ventriloquist act;
roof lifting act for two females;
rafting trio, quartet and dance
speciality act; seven-character
comedy act; a tabloid comedy
and burlesque; sixteen minstrel
first parts; grand minstrel fl
male and hundreds of cracker
jack, cross-fire jokes and gags"
With q dollar and some am
bilious talent, any enterprising
youn.; man can become a mighty
factor in show business, more
or less.
A note in a Charlottesville
paper, announcing the coming in
March of Ziegfeld's Follies, set
me to wondering if Eddie Can
tor had recovered. He hasn't
and Ziegfeld is still ain the red"
on his last venture.
An enterprising gentleman
named Wintz, it seems, buys the
titles and scenery of such Scan
dals and Follies as have out
lived the big time. These he
shapes to road requirements and
tours them over the one night
and split-week stands, billing
them plentifully und under
their original titles and max
ing quite a prosperous go of
it all.
Nita Naldi, whose plumpness
threatened to proselyte her from
the films something eventually
utuJ CEOpS up OH DFOauWdy rs
a speaking address. She opened
this week in Philadelphia in a
new show "The Great Necker,"
which goes to New York next
Monday.
Mark Gates is not responsible
for this bit Of propaganda.
It's gratuitous. In Toronto a
week ago, one man dropped dead
and another was taken to the
hospital, the result of devastating