The Washington times., 1935-08-19
Roamin' Round
Back Stage
With HoyIe
BY BILL HOYLE


It all started when Sidney Gar.
funkle sang soprano and Nat
Birmbaum alto in Cantor Gar.
funkle's choir, lower east side
New York city. When they be.
came older the boys started to
work up an act and soon they
opened with their offering at the
Majestic Theater, Terrytown N. Y.
Sidney took care of the songs and
Nat came through with the hoof'
ing and gags.
For three and q half years
they played the circuits and
finally came into San Antonio,
Tex. Across the street from their
theoter Oracle Allen played in
an Irish stock company, and Nat
decided to leave Sidney and team
up with her. This became the
famous radio and stage team Of
Burns and Allen.
Sidney then went 1t alone and
now he's q headliner known as
Sid Gary, and incidentally an
excellent baritone at the Fox this
week, who has never had q vocal
lesson in his life.
And Benny Ross on the same
bill was formerly o cartooniSt on
the Hartford Sun, and broke into
show business as q chalk talk
amuSer. The lazy Maxine Stone
in the act is the Mrs.
Billy Revel of the dance team
of Moore and Revel is the brother
of the well-known song writer
Harry Revel. He began his stage
career by winning a dancing con
test at the Champs ElySeeS Thea
ter in Paris, 10 years ago, and
teamed with Miss Moore when she
was playing the Gayety Theater
in London. and he was at the
Casino De Paree in Paris.
Rudy Paul, the saxophonist in
the first act at the Fox, is the
youngest conductor in this coun-
try. Before this engagement he
finished week at the Paramount
Theater in New York as guest
conductor.
Max Finders overture "Bits
from the Opera Bouffe," has never
been done in this town before.
Victor Herbert's 1.-THE Only Girl''
is played as Max remembers it
when he was concert master for
the famous composer.
nomay Bailey is really Mrs. Lee
Simms, the headlining act at the
Earle this week. Before she met
Lee she was a prima donna with
high soprano voice. The true
story goes that they teamed and
opened at the Orpheum in Cham
payne, III. Lee frankly haG a case
of stage fright, and unwittingly
pitched the song five tones lower
than it should have been. She
sang it, however, without heSita-
ton and with more ease than or
dinarily, in this way discovering
that her voice could go to excep-
tional and unSuspected depths.
Three octaves is her range against
one and a half octav for the
normal voice.
This team expects to go into
show this fall that Phil Baker
is rumored to be assembling with
Bottles McNaughton, Beetle and
Ames Arno. Phirs eye is on Lon
don for the opening.
AL Bernie, the mimic wizard
on the Earle stage, was discov-
cred just a year ago by Rudy
Vallee, and he leaves this Friday
by plane to join the crooner at
the Toronto exposition. Last
January AL appeared with Will
Rogers at the Presidents banquet
held at the Willard.
Harris, Claire and Shannon.
ultra smart dancers at the Earle,
are all Americans, and yet their
act originated in 1880 in Paris
Not until this last october did
they play this country and for
the past five years have toured
the Continent, Australia, Africa,
Egypt, South America, and have
just contracted to appear in
Shanghai this fall. This is their
first Washington appearance.
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