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...Canary Cottage," which opened this week at the Park Square, is another of Oliver Morosco's clever, frank, and somewhat unrefined musical farces. Like "So Long Letty," which was here a short time ago, this piece treats of western life in the rough, and like it, was produced first on the Pacific coast and then brought here. That it contains a wealth of vulgar humor there is no denying; but the vulgarity, or frankness as it might better be called, is introduced as the means rather than...
...proverbial "typical Morosco cast" certainly lives up to its name: Trixie Friganza is her own breezy, slangy, domineering self; Charles Ruggles is kept busy pacifying his different lady loves; Herbert Corthell does well in the rather thankless part of the philandering, drink-addicted husband; Dorothy Webb, dainty, lively, and vivacious, frolics through the piece as the heroine should; while the plump Lecia Lucay, the "baby grand," is the one principal blessed with a really fine voice...
Personality in the cast is the primary virtue of "So Long Letty." Oliver Morosco has gathered together such people as Charlotte Greenwood, Sydney Grant, Walter Catlett and Frances Cameron, with well-laid plans. They all have an unexplainable faculty of "getting across" just what they want and it will be a peculiar audience which will not be at their feet for three hours, in more ways than one. Charlotte Greenwood, with her excessively long legs and arms and her naivete is about as ridiculously attractive as one could hope...