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Vol. XIXNEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1929No. 17“Roxy” Planning Big N.V.A. Show For Sunday at MetropolitanGreatest Stars of Our Stage Will Entertain For the Great N.V.A. Sick and Benefit FundS. L. Rothafel, “Roxy,” in co-operation with the Allied Amusement Interests, is preparing a most unusual pageant of stars of musical comedy, motion picture presentations, vaudeville, radio and drama for next Sunday night at the Metropolitan. This event will be the climax of the Actors’ National jubilee now being celebrated all over the country to aid the N. V. A. Sick and . Benefit Fund; which, in addition to completing the Sanitarium at Saranac for the tubercular patients of all branches of the theatre, looks after the ill, aged and needy of the vaudeville profession.Among the favorite stars and ensembles already assured for this interesting composite programme are the following, alphabetically arranged : Lester Allen and Nellie Breen, Paul Ash, Lionel Atwill,Fannie Brice, Phil Baker, Janet Beecher, Ben Bernie and Band, Jim Barton, Brendel Bert, Eddie Cantor, Renee Chemet, Lita Grey Chaplin, Clayton, Jackson Durante, Ann Codee, Will Rogers, FrankCrumit, Benny Davis and Gang, Harland Dixon, Kitty Doner, Allan Dinehart, Leon Errol, Trixie Friganza, Harry Fox, “Fioretta” Chorus by courtesy Earl Carroll, Madame Geva and Eight Girls, “Red” Grange, Guerreri Giovanni and Male Chorus from “Fioretta,” Evelyn Herbert, Lou Holtz, Leatrice Joy, George Jessel, Koun Sisters, Francine Larrimore, Mary Lawlor and Bobby Watson, Four Marx Brothers, Russell Markert Girls, Erin O’Brien Moore, Victor Moore, McIntyre Heath, Greta Nissen and James Rennie, Jack Pearl, Ethel and Dorothea Ponce, “Roxy” (himself), Ritz Brothers, Yvette Rugel, “The Revellers,” Roxy Symphony Orchestra of 110, directed by Erno Rapee, Sixty Roxyettes direction Russell Markert, Aileen Stanley, Shaw Lee, Gus Shy and Marie Callahan and Chorus from “New Moon,” Leonore Ulric, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, Paul .Whiteman and his new sixty-piece orchestra, Walter ‘Woolf and the “Red Robe” ensemble, Whiting Burt, Clara Kimball Young, etc.
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New York Vaudeville News
New York, New York, US
Sat, Apr 20, 1929
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