Evening star., 1935-08-31
Allen
Foolishness
Sweeps Fox
Bestor's Orchestra and
Other Things for
Music Fans.

"uERE COMES COOKIE" the cur
- rent George Burns Oracle Allen
idiocy, at Loew's Fox, is for Burns and
Allen fans only-no others need ap-
ply-but Don Bestor's Orchestra,
headlining the stage show, is enter
tainment for one and all who like
modern dance music played In q
bright and lifting style.
Bestor's Orchestra, as any one who
listens to radios No. One Boy, Jack
Benny, knows, specializes in the very
sweet and smoothly rhythmic brand
of dansapation pioneered by Guy
Lombardo and later Jan CARRIER and
others. It's music Of today. The heat
Of Harlem's trumpets, popular not so
long ago, still Is there, but it is sub
dued and tanned and put in its proper
place by sweet saxes and mellow
strings.
The Bestor unit has a. four-man
sax section. which is a lot of saxo-
phones and which makes for sweet
rhythms that soothe the ears and
tickle the toes. The Bestor program
includes numbers not exactly new-the
latest is Never Say Never"-but
which are more than welcome because
Of the pleasant arrangements and the
Bestor manner of delivery.
Don also introduces Joy Lynne. q
young lady who stopped yesterday
evenings show as completely as any
show ever was stopped, and who could
have kept it stopped as long as her
encores held out.
There are some five young ladies
caroling from downtown stages this
week, and after listening to all of
them we are about ready to hand top
honors to Miss Lynne. Not because of
her voice, particularly, because it Is
not quite the best of the five, but it
has that certain indefinable some
thing, and Joy knows how to use her
very pleasant personality to sell o
song.
Also in the Bestor unit are Neil
Buckley, who has q way with popular
songs, and fellow who sings couple
Of comedy songs which are sure-fire
hits. Don himself contributes q top
ping vibra-harp solo.
Sammy Cohen, screen and stage
comic with a schnozzle of no uncer-
tain proportions; Bernice Martin,
radio and musical comedy singer, and
the Monroe brothers, q pair OF dizzy
comedians, are the rest of the Fox
stage bill and all are good. Phil
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airs, which is excellent.
Here Comes Cookie" Is Burns and
Allen and nothing more. Oracle is
completely insane and George is con-
tinually on the point of being driven
insane and that's all there Is to 1t.
The so-called plot has a millionaire
George Barbier) assigning his money
for so days to his daughter (Gracie) 80
another daughter DEITY Furness) will
not marry q gigolo CRafael Storm
So Oracle does the expected, and fol-
lows an utterly idiotic course Of ac-
ton, which almost drives everybody
concerned to the booby-hatch.
She reads in Variety that actors
are hungry, whereupon she decides
to fill her Park avenue home with
hungry actors. Then she refuses to
send her father, who has gone South
for a vacation, any money, because
he is supposed to look poor so the
gigolo will not marry her sister; she
decides to put on show with her
actors; she plays Juliet in her show,
until her father pops up out of trap
door and shoves the butler, who Is
playing Romeo, into a wall, knocking
down the balcony, and we're going
nuts too, but you get the idea.
If you like George and Oracle, you
will not need to be told to see Here
Comes Cookie" but if you do not roll
out of your chair at Gracie's goofy
answers and Georges complete frus-
tration, you had best be warned to
watch the timetables so you can
hear Don Bestor's entertainment and
then leave as soon as the film gets
In your hair. II. M.