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...Wilbur Theatre this week, George Holland is presenting an all-colored musical extravaganza, "Hi-de-ho." Written by Addison Carey and John Mason, the production is a series of amazingly informal individual acts, unconnected yet entertaining and completely winning the sympathy of the audience...
There is no plot that the reviewer could discover in "Hi-de-ho." A very pleasing devil was running about and his domain seemed to be peopled with most agreeable dancers and singers. The most extravagantly successful act of the show was a prison orchestration by Bruce Johnson's Washboard Serenaders. The positively incredible way this group could make music go mad almost drove the audience into a frenzy. Your reviewer distinctly counted three women who actually jumped at least six inches out of their seats during one of the rendition. Also peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific...
...summarize the impression gained from "Hi-de-ho" is a strange task. It is impossible to judge the show according to ordinary standards. As a series of disorganized acts it wins success through the irrepressibility and charm of a talented collection of individual performers...
...wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule, I would be a coniurer, soke Veritas in ayre and earth. There was one faire Mayde, vertuous . . . Full many a lass was laid on the lippe. He say no more.--Ho, Miles, the capon. Bringe thy tabor and pipe, troll away, like a foole for Hise Maiestie!" They drank, and talked, and sang. The Vagabond remembers snatches of a ballad...
...Ho! Ho!" rumbled his deep bass laugh at the point-blank query whether he might not even yet sell out to Japan. "I will resist the Japanese." said he when he had had his laugh "with all the troops nd resources at my command...