Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-18
Films i'm Review
BY CHARLES GENTRY.
Kay Kyser
Packs the Fox
Theater

! YOU, TOO. can be quiz kid.
All you have TO do is step right up
to the Fox box office. draw the
lucky number and Kay Kyser will
be asking you a musical question
you can't answer because ALL of
those people are out in front STAR
ing at you.
Yes, the professor of the College
OF Musical knowledge is here in
person al the Fox with his band,
and one of those interrogatory
stage shows that seem TO delight
his fans.
One thing that's so nice about
these affairs is that they are so
informal
There is none of that IF you
fail you will have 10 stand in
Grand Circus Park without any
clothes on element. Nor do they
ask you 10 pay penalty of $1,000
for missing the $64 question or put
you in Class 5-A because OF your
l. |. O. rating
No, it's nice and friendly and
Kyser is certainly past master at
putting the Selectees in his musi-
cal draft at ease. Besides doing
lot of kidding nc actually helps
you 10 win by giving you tips that
Icinch the whole affair if you're not
self conscious.
OF course stage fright makes
lot of the contestants so tongue
tied they can't blurt out the
answer even after it's told to
them
JUST THE TYPE
Example would be Mrs. Pool
dodger TO whom Kay Kyser adj
dresses some such remarks:
Mrs. Pooldodger, the band IL
going TO play well known mel
ody and Will you please tell us
what II Is:"
The band plays "Old Black Joe
while Mrs. Pooldodger tugs nerv-
ously al her girdle.
Shaking jittery head. she
doesn't know what II is, so Kay
prompts her by saying something
like:
"He waS a great American
composer who used to Foster n
number OF melodies. Get it,"
WHERE TO TURN:
Mrs Pooldodger is now ready to-
run. not walk. 10 the nearest exit
but she sticks her ground and still
gives II that negative business,
.whereupon Kay shouts 10 the boys ::
What ever happened TO that
Negro arranger We used To have,
old Black Joe Now, step up
closer. Mrs. Pooldodger and tell
everybody what the song Is"
Mrs. Pooldodger, now as des-I
perate AS she would be al finding
Bella Lugosi under her bed finally
blurts out Historically. "Darde-
nella, and is carried off with the
s. bill in her perspiring palm.
sPRINKLED WITH TUNES
It's all in fun and the audience
gets quite a kick out of IL.
To relieve the Information.
Please tension. Kay sprinkles the
show with such lively airs as Who
Wouldn't Love You. "Tangerine"
with a trio and Harry Rabbit. a
duo on Spurs and waltz-swing
arrangement OF "Limehouse Blues"
and a repeat OF their comic version
of Three Little Fishes" with
Sully Mason and ISh Kabibble for
laughs.
4 SILLY SLEUTH
on the screen Milton Berle
keeps wiSecracking his way
through a mystery comedy called
Whispering Ghosts A radio
crime detector with automatic
laughs. Berle seeks TO find the
reason why the captain Of an old
schooner was murdered.
He thinks it's all a gag. until
several characters turn up with
such serious intentions, even Berle
has 10 sober up.
There is the usual pretty heir
ess imperiled by clutching hands,
the furtive looks and weird de-
vices which any one deserves who
goes prowling around dirty old
ship al night without protection.
Berle is quite funny, but he's a.
little too pat in his delivery, as
though he had been Cvcr-rehearsed
and knew how the story was going