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PAGE 11 Saturday, September 26, 1942 DETROIT EVENING TIMES (PHOSE CHEERY 8800) pack Pickering NIGHT CLUB HEADLINERS Copacabana Revue Here Films in Review Opens at Book Casino By CHARLES GENTRY YOU NEED not be a Latin from' to sing and dance to the Brat and Manhattan to appreciate the en- ( zilian macumba and to the Cuban 'Wake Island' Gehrig 'Juke Girl' tertaining Copacabana Revue which number. I last served to officiallyopen Betty night An energy tic youngster, .Now the new fall season‘m the'Book Jane Smith, exudes liveliness and the Book-Cadillac. at on Shows at Casino in !plenty of ability in her presenta- 0 Opens Saga The show, which comes here rapid-tiie This has expressed its tion of tap work. H<*r column direct from New York, is packed clearly executed and she already way taps are admiration for the with sparkling talent, dressed in her act completely with a Michigan musically sel^s f Detroit is forging^head in fur-, State Fox Screen lavish style and hacked smile' as big as this. nixhing dogs for blind people. with alternating Latin and Amer- Additional tap dancing, this time "The YOU PUT a nickel In and Ann rhythms. cast contains Guide dogs are one of the WITH A highly commendable There is no fall following ican. lts on the spectacular side, is nrovidect absence the spectacular. Pride The Yankees.” because Sheridan comes out as a "Juke an array of varied terpsichorian by Johnny Coy. Coy’s A«taire-liko earths hum- of Para- of is 011-pjieed revue. the life and Girl" in the film which opened at HARRY STEVENS, banjo- artists and it a.w performance is a highlight of.the Mo mu aolov mount has dramatized what we the film version of six beauti- Michigan yesterday. Club The Samba Sirens, : revue as indicated by the patrons' T hero is could only presume must have hap- baseball times of I»u Gehrig the -Ist, the star of the fully costumed girls who are as juke box, applause. never a faro pened at "Wake Island.” hasn’t a letdown in it. A as you probably lovely as the orchids they wear in Songstress Carole Dexter offers 1 hat looks The picture which opened yes- The true-life saga of one of the know if you’ve ever had a quick their hair, appear in the opening [th£ Frances Fafye tune,*“Shut My mmß jH great Sport's leading sandwich the sequence, dancing while songstress a ,U terday at the Palms-State Theater American anywhere in United iMoufh” and concludes with "Thi.s t the heroes, has filming Carole Dexter sings tno lyrics of person is powerful made better States, is one of those over- Love of Mine.” blind Btf/M as and realistic an af- material than you’d guess, offhand. in the Moonlight” and Ben *Youhg and his orchestra, you might be to expect illuminated. highly colored con- j' who .mt fair as lefl ) We think a lot of this interest dancer Leßoy flirts with each of wilh lovely singiijg ex- (low hmwgh any cinematic attempt Jan Martel ri I from to is due to the fact that there are traptions from which exudes the the lovelies. The Sirens are indeed !Calient, selections, deserve IK, VV r.dvTirss film a event which vocal historic about such fine performances putting most objectionable noises man has such and become more alluring as crerfft the-success of the «V< • 1' *lh in- except a tragi* result, is much for nothing, • ¦ 1 extra push into n tale which might ever been able to secure for five- the revde progresses. ' Their arrangements are ?•'•'¦ Ik known to the gpneral public. Ishow*. IH|B| easily have been hum-drum. Smart ballroom dancing, In many, but no maticr what the re- And 1 hoi Rut no words can possibly de- pence. Gary Cooper steps up to hat out mm ,IMb Ah which every effortless motion is quirement they rise to the occa- !- o scribe the mixed feelings of the Gehrig This story, however, has vpry the a good- with iho • . life of Mr. with blended rhyjhm.of the sion. • f ' '' observer after witnessing such a natured ease and boyish charm, little to do with how a musical JMMi music, is exhibited by Estelle and being the presentation. hHB mm I . Copacabana Revue is HIHIHHHiI which women folk they’re sup- machine can overcome mankind. Leßoy. These *sof)histicAteft of the ! presented night, *at 10 One doesn’t need a cast of fin- on of -*» twice' a “* posedly not so hot the idea , dance work in a light and airy ished actors to win your sympathy, It is more concerned with the a M o'clock and 12 midnight, and each over a° blind baseball movies- will find irre- manner. They perform he discovers, rouse your anger and to a kind of girl who Ipan.s on one. rhumba ‘show is different. man's face when point sistable. and waltz, difficult lifts and spins, through dog. he frighteningly conclusive moral. waiting to dance with the first a that can move and exhibit the maxixp. a 100-true about A SIMPLE STORY customer who a dance about and become a normal hu- This is just tale shows up with a which the famous Castles a guys who trapped I featured . man being again. bunch of were Told in a simple, unaffected coin. <25 years ago. A hordes of dirty so-and-sos and Due to priorities or Petrillo or versatile pair, It ought to give Detroiters a by fashion, the story goes on about ;they prove to be the stars of the faced it out with a kind of quiet background, his first something, the "dime-a-dance” girl his early v . MICHIGANffgEl feeling pride to # marked of know eourage. genuine cut price in half and in : : jshow. • S& rameradenr and successes in front of crowds, his has her J The mood changes to throbbing that Detroit is in the forefront almost humorous gesture of con- Wright and this case Miss Sheridan is one of I romance with Teresa jungle tempo to permit Andrina of this movement to furnish tempt toward their foes. the final tragic denouement those characters who waits for the next record. guide dogs. This is fairly new. NO DRAMATICS because of his incurable illness.. course there’s a lot of un- having come about in the last Of OFF THE RECORD It is this element which is the necessary fooiage, showing most Gorrell to Play five years and less. important feature of the film screaming crowds, harried throngs in a Florida juke joint, Director Johnny Farrow, a lieu- in montage and cinematic impedi- dead-broke. Ann pursues her jive along r. F. McKee dropped in at tenant in the Canadian forces, menta designed to impress you career with another girl. WONGS, Oriental PEGGY NEWTON, brunet At Presentation home Reagan and SEN llJukefrri. Time* office yesterday with on medical discharge, has with the fart that a baseball sea- They meet Ronald ms the evidently enough him- pal. Whorf, dancers, are featured in the beauty, is the vocalist tvith Glenn Staines and three blind seen action son is taking place. Richard itinerant self to realize that any show of fruit-growers, who are having nightly revues at the Talm Jack LeMaire’s orchestra at Ceremony Sunday people for whom Staines has INDIVIDUAL INTEREST ©rjggjjfejl heroics or false sentiment w’ould trouble w-ith the owner of the Beach. the Casanova. RAY GORRELL guide dogs. and his orches- * trained he such strictly taste to packing concern, been Staines Is a Detroit druggist in bad as But despite that, you’ll find local Gene tra have chosen from a num- n in r I make the whole effort a ridiculous per- Lockhart. ber ¦|Ki Whose hobby'K'breedlng Dober- yourself concentrating on the of nationally known band's to one, Mr. Lockhart, a shifty fellow’ if provide presenta- dogs at his kennels In sonal story of Lou Gehrig, a publici the music for the STATE FSgpj Consequently, you find Brian idol that vvent in for exhibi- we’ve ever encountered one on the Louella Parsons tion of the army and navy Five ago an never “E” fiPALMS Oak. years Donlevy, presumably the counter- screen, has by no means vmnsville man, a salesman for tionism. hut still had a pretty aban- flag to the Briggs Manofaoturing «l*o part df Major Devereaux. conduct- Cooper'* perform-; doned his sneaky ways and in this asked Staines to colorful life. Company at Belle Isle, ’Sunday at ing in a forceful and sub- ar»ep ranks with his ease he tries to ruin Reagan and a guide dog for him. himself "Mr. Deeds" 2 p. m. The ceremony will train manner, with the rest of his "Sergeant his friend. takf already familiar dued and York” and possibly place in the shell. Staines was staff. Walter Abel. Macdonald has emotional depth Much melodrama follows, in- HOLLYWOOD~GOSSIP with training Dobermans for a little more I In addition to Gorrell and his Carey, etc., and even the truculent any portrayals. cluding the murder of the juke band, police work, and the dog he than in previous HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 26 The and nothing that happen* to mo who will offer the same pro- engineer. Albert Dekker. Even with Little joint * proprietor, hut finally Mr a* trained for the Evansville man civilian "The Foxes" widely ru- in Hollywood will moan half gram that they did on a recent all behaving more like men with a and "Mrs.