The Washington times., 1933-12-11

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That judicial '''A'''ll'
understand Andrew Kelley
still goes but it has been modified
a little Mrs. Shalleck confessed
in her Earle Theater dressing
room on Saturday. Lillian Roth
can now accept one engagement
a month for out-of-town stage
work. In November she played
in Detroit. Her December date is
her present engagement at the
Earle.
"It is not difficult to reconcile
marriage and career If there
Is mutual understanding" she
says. For three weeks of every
month I enjoy real family life.
That means I'm at home and
arrange the meals, do the house.
work and in fact everything that
a happy married girl loves to do.
Once a month I contract outside
engagements, and the Judge ap-
proves"
Judge Shalleck came down from
New York on Saturday to spend
a weekend with his bride at the
Hotel Mayflower. His visit to the
Earle Theater dressing room
Saturday night was the first time
he had been back stage since
their marriage. On her makeup
table was bunch of red roses
he had telegraphed from New
York.
On Wednesday Lillian Roth will
be % and Judge Shalleck cele.
brates his birthday too. Their
double domestic party will be post
poned until she arrives home Fri
day night.
In New York she has contracted
to make short pictures for Para
mount at Astoria and a series for
Warner Bros, at Flatbush. But
these engagements will not inter
fere with her family schedule She
will be home for dinner every
| night.
In TAKE A Chance" on the
Earle screen she has the best role
that came her way since she
played with Dennis King in "The
Vagabond King" On the stage
Lillian Roth is offering the Dest
act she has appeared in since she
entered vaudeville.
New Hit in "Follies"
Inserted into the new Ziegfelo
Follies at the Saturday matinee
was what will probably be the
most vociferouSly welcomed com
edy number when the show opens
at the New York Winter Garden
on Christmas night.
It is a choral take-off on the
"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad
Wolf" craze, which besides having
! substantial merit in a vocal way
packs many laugh. It practically
! stopped the Follies on Saturday
and was so new no encore hao
been prepared. Willie Howard
looked self-conscious taking q
| bow as a receipt Of the applause
Another Follies addition enter
ing Saturday was Cherry and June
Preiser, the kid sister team, seen
here fortnight ago with Kate
Smiths revue. They worked but
one scene Saturday but will be
fitted into the Follies routine as
soon as new costumes arrive
Brand new scenery made the Fifth
Avenue bus number and the Max
ike" dancing speciality heavily en-
cored bits. Actually the Follies
Saturday night was 100 per cent
better revue than when glimpsed
by the critics and first nighters.
Few New Radio Stars
SISTERS of the Skillet" on the
Fox stage this week illustrates
how few new radio celebritie!
have been created in the las
two years. This act leaped intt
fame by being the first to mimic
"Amos m Andy" the high-speec
Floyd Gibbons. the flowery anc
assured Graham MacNamee, A
Smiths propensity for calling i
''raddio," the nose singing Rudy
Vallee and other loud speaker
heroes.
They still mimic these air "a
vorites, but their appeal has sub
Stantally leSSened. For othel
acts are doing the same thing
and some of them better. isis
ters of the Skillet" appeared al
the White House correspondents
dinner in 1882 and made the run
ming hit of the show. Harry
Crull Immediately booked then
for the Fox and they duplicated
their triumph.
Later they were honored b!
being the act selected by Rox!