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Eddie Leonard, the popular black-faced comedian, heads the bill at Keith's this week. He sings his darky songs and performs his clog dances in the same old delightful manner that charmed vaudeville audiences years ago. He is supported by another marvellous clog dancer...
...excuse for a plot is conceived in a novel manner. In a sort of prologue, Professor Fakir introduces his class of six budding playwrights, who announce in turn the subject of their first dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show...
...hours and then freeze a new skating surface, in as short a time. In order to prevent a repetition of the fire which destroyed the old Arena several years ago, concrete construction has been used practically throughout the building, even for the seats, which are arranged in the same manner as those in the Stadium. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings or boxing matches. The running track of standard width measures ten laps to the mile...
Every such student whose work for the whole year is to be less than two and one-half courses is required to pay in like manner his entire tuition fee for the year minus the amount of his first instalment already paid...
...ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative manner. Arthur Elliott does a rare piece of character acting as the tyrannical paternal head of the household, although at times his apoplectic anger seems a trifle overdone...