Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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George Whiting and Gadie Burt are the headliners at Keith's this week, in a miniature operetta entitled "Little Miss Melody." This musical sketch alternates song and dance numbers with good effect: the nine members of the company, impersonating the spirit of Jazz, Harmony, Melody, and other characteristics of tune, succeed in keeping the audience continually interested. The costumes and scenery are more than usually elaborate...
Other contributors to the bill are Eddie Borden, in a humorous hodge-podge of jokes and jazz music; Grace Huff, in a one-act playlet entitled "Just Like a Man,' and Charles Bensee and Florence Baird in a laughable little skit, "Songlflage." Frankie Wilson is also seen in an unusual series of "mirage" posings while Burt Gordon and Fone Ford entertain in a "Recital Classique...
Maud Muller and her orchestra in "A Tuneful, Topical Revue" offer some effective bits of jazz music, concluding with a Chinese burlesque of "The Sun Daughter" in similar saxophone harmony. Charles and Henry Rigoletto assisted by the Swanson sisters, met with much applause in "Around the World,' an act which is as original as it is full of action. Among the other entertainers, Jack McLallen and May Carson do some clever work on roller skates, Frank J. Conroy appears in a blackface absurdity entitled "Spirits of 1920," while Stella Tracey and Carl McBride are seen in a singing and dancing...
Owing to an acute attack of rheumatism, Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind, deaf and formerly mute woman, was unable to appear at the opening performance at Keith's, and so the U. S. Jazz Band, which has just completed a successful tour of the Pacific Coast, became the headliner. Miss Keller will be back on the stage as soon as her health pormits, but in her absence the rolicking, catchy strains of the Jazz Band will prove a stellar attraction...
...Captain Smiley, R. G. Payne '22 Olive, J. C. Bolton '20 Pierre, Y. H. Buhler '20 Barnum O'Brien, F. M. Trainer Oc. First Waiter, J. J. Emery '21 Second Waiter, J. R. Griag, Jr., '21 Vera, E. Scott '21 High Priest, W. McH. Keyser '20 Mr. Jazz, R. H. Ware '20 Bell Boy, C. G. LeForgee...