The Archive · 1939

At the Gaiety

The Ruff Brothers, pianist and violinist, respectively, continue popular at the Gaiety, where they compensate patrons with musical interludes between dancing and entertainment item: Their classical ənd jazz music—they are able to jazz the classical—is something different from the ordinary run of things and demonstrates by they are favourites. Serge's orchestra attends for dancing. who takes care of all the trouble the show gets into.

Most of the circus atmosphere will be contributed by six lions, which were rented for $1,500, and cly Queenie and Sally, the pet elephants of Frank Whitbeck, who is Metro's advertising manager. None of the players will come in contact with the lions, in spite of the climax which involves Peggy Shannon's rescue of Virginia from the path of a charging beast. The rescue will be achieved via the process screen. In the scenes in which Miss Shannon purports to be in the animals' cages. the player will be Louis Roth, their 55-year-old Hungarian trainer, who doubles for the actress in a red wig.

He receive $15 a day for looking after the lions and $35 when he serves as double.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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