Amerique and Neville — CWB article clipping [0d8d3e26e7]

Audiences Storm

The RKO-Prospect;
Vaudeville - Films

VAUDEVILLE: Ameriqgue and Neville,
Reed and LeVere, Bud and Jack Dear
son and company, Cherry Blossom and
June, Radio Rogues, Benny Roberts and
his RKUlans. Feature picture: Joe F
Hrown in ‘The Tenderfoot.’’ At the
RKU Prospect Theatre.

After several years the RKO

Prospect Theatre, Ninth st. and
Fifth ave. returned yesterday to its
combination of vaudeville and fea-
ture picture policy, which made
that playhouse one of the most
popular in Brooklyn

If there was any doult in the
minds of the officials of the Radio-
Keith-Orpheum Corp. whether the
people of South Rrooklyn wanted
a return to vaudeville, this idea
was dispelled ten minutes after the
box office opened, when the thea-
tre was filled from orchestra to
roof, with thousands milling about
the front,

The writer succeeded in gaining
entrance only after great difficulty
and explaining to the police, who
were keeping the good-natured
erowd in line. Onee inside and
seated in the cool, comfortable at-
mosphere and away from the tor-
pid heat, we were right into the
show. |

A fast, snappy overture played
by Benny Roberts and his RKO-
lians started the proceedings at a
lively pace.

The first act, Amierique and
Neville, a dance team of eharm
and ability, drew rounds of ap-
plause for their efforts

Followel Reed & Le Vere, “Two
Gentlemen from Nowhere,” whose
Pantomime comedy and dancing
aguin brought smiles of joy and hap-
piness

Rud and Jack Pearson & Co. were
followed iy Cherry Dlossom and
June, known as “Dixie's Dancing
Darlings.” who stopped the show cold
aml were broueht out for encore
after encore. As a fitting close for
an excejlent bill, the Radio Rogues,
who boast of such loeal favorites as
James Hollywood and Fd Bartell,
succeeded in keeping the audience
busy applauding their impressions
and impersonations of favorite radio
. stars

And as if to show their apprecia-
tion for the inauguration of the first
vaudeville show, the audience upon
completion of the vaudeville part of
the bill, gave the whole show a great
ronnd of applause, The feature pic-
ture was Joe Brown, in “The Tender-
foot.” The reviewer might add that
he is still weary from his efforts in
leaving the packed theatre, which by
this time seemed to be the centre of
theatrical activity in South Brook-
lyn Hi