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...Senator, Governor, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Justice. He was the active mind of Lincoln's Cabinet. Born in Cornish, N. H., he graduated from Dartmouth, and early entered the anti-slavery fight. Grave and massive, his New England conscience was as strong as his sense of humor was weak. He was the financial genius of the Civil...
...Humor, Variety, Beauty, Intelligence...
...Vincent Lopez have set all critical Paris talking. And, as Alfred Kreyneborg used to say, "there are others-doz-ens of them." The truth is that it is hard to believe that even the palmy days of the old English music hall saw anything like the variety, intelligence, humor and beauty sometimes displayed in the leading vaudeville theatres of America today...
...book is better than the book of "Shuffie Along". True, it has not one scene of the high comic value of the Grocery Store scene, but the humor is more diversified and more widely sprinkled throughout the evening. The Barber Shop scene is the high comedy point, but the band rehearsal of the first scene is not far behind it. The present company lacks comedians of the first rank. One man presents an imitation of Bert Williams, consciously or not, that does not come up to the Bert Williams standard. But the pugnacious, rambunctious wit that is racial and authentic...
...However costumes and scenery alike are forgotten the minute there is dancing. "The Sheik of Alabain" and "Louisville Lou" are "put across", by Greenlee and Drayton as few songs are ever done, with a limitless enjoyment by audience and actors alike, with syncopation in voice and gesture, and with humor in attitude and tonality. Throughout the dancing stands out, "Liza" is a dancing show. The finales are parables of pep. The cast is fairly popping with pep. And the orchestra, with rhythmic and clever orchestration, catches the spirit of jazz triumphant; "blues" paramount, and echoes it in syncopations of variety...