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High Button Shoes Comedy Opens Monday At Starlight
The fun-filled musical comedy "High Button Shoes" opens at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre Monday, starring Paul Gilbert, one of the leading comics in the country today, and featuring television stars Denise Lor and Jill Corey with dancer Hal LeRoy. Curtain time is 8:15 o'clock nightly.
"South Pacific" starring Howard Keel and Martha Wright, continues to draw enthusiastic crowds to the theatre during the second week of its current presentation. The Rodgers and Hammerstein show will run through Sunday, July 7.
Keel, star of the M-G-M movies "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" and "Kismet," has won his viewers with his resonant baritone voice and virile portrayal of the French planter, Emile de Becque.
Miss Wright, who took over the Nurse Nellie Forbush role when Mary Martin retired from the original Broadway production, exhibits great vitality and exuberance in such numbers as,"I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy," "Honey Bun," and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair."
An excellent supporting cast includes Benny Baker as the irrepressible Seabee, Luther Billis; Gloria Lane, who has received special critical acclaim for her interpretation of Bloody Mary; Jim Hawthorne, well-known tenor in the second romantic lead; and Joseph Macaulay, George S. Irving and Mort Marshall as war-time navy men.
The third presentation of the 1957 season at the Swope Park playhouse, "High Button Shoes," is the rollingick story of a con man and his stooge and their slapstick antics in New Jersey in 1913.
"Papa, Won't You Dance With Me," and "Nobody Ever Died For Dear Old Rutgers" are two of the larger production numbers in the show.
Highlight of the show is a ballet
of the Mack Sennett variety, full of fury and hokum, with an old time cops and robbers chase through Atlantic City, slamming bathhouse doors, squealing girls and a jittery gorilla. This scene in the original Broadway production of the show, which starred Phil Silvers, Joey Faye and Nanette Fabray, was classified by Eastern critics as "the fastest and best organized shambles to be seen on the stage in many years."
Ralph Lowe and Mort Marshall will be seen in strong supporting roles.
Filled with flambouyant hats and gowns and the styles of that period, "High Button Shoes" is considered by Starlight officials as one of the funniest comedies that will be produced this season at the theatre, and there's quite a lot about love, too.
Gilbert and LeRoy are making return trips to Starlight, having been featured together in "The Red Mill" in 1952. Gilbert also was seen here in "East Wind" in 1952. From the age of seven, he has known no life but that of the theatre, progressing from family vaudeville to circus trapeze stunts to comedy routines which have booked him into some of the most exclusive supper clubs in the country, light opera and musical comedy in the nation's leading theatres and movies. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, including five NBC Spectaculars, the Colgate Comedy Hour and Lux Video Hour.
Happy-toed Hal LeRoy, who last appeared at Starlight Threatre in the Cole Porter Festival of 1955, will be making a most welcome return to
DES MOINES—Five swimming events this summer have been sanctioned by the Iowa Assn. of the A.A.U.
Iowa Announces A.A.U. Schedule
They are: July 7, Clinton Open at Clinton, Howard Judd, meet manager:
July 13, Iowa A.A.U. junior championships at Muscatine, Gary Ackerman. meet manager:
July 14, Iowa A.A.U. senior championships, at East Story County pool, Nevada, Jack McGuire, meet manager.
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Aug. 10-11, Iowa Junior Olympics, Ottumwa Country Club, Max Rushmeyer, meet manager.
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McGuire, swimming coach at Iowa State College, is men's swimming chairman for the Iowa A.A.U. Bob Allen of Iowa U., is state A.A.U. swimming chairman for women.
the Kansas City stage where his dancing has won him many fans and admirers.
Denise Lor, feminine singing star of the daily Garry Moore television show, and Jill Carey, who has been named to replace Giselle MacKenzie on Your Hit Parade next season, will be making their Starlight debuts.
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