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...featured act at Keith's this week is a vaudeville version of the famous musical comedy "Going Up" The plot is condensed to a brief synopsis of the play, which was originally based on Geo M Cohan's "The Aviator," and deals with a young man who is induced to enter an airplane race to win the love of a girl. He does the stunt and proves himself a hero...
Cinderella wanders in and out of the plot at will, but her presence is hardly necessary to the elaborate revue, which, after all, resembles chiefly a high-class vaudeville on a huge scale. A total of 22 scenes takes the spectator everywhere from the League of Nations Meeting at Versailles to a lavishly-decorated Top of the World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small...
Although to all intents and purposes the conventional girl and music show, this comedy offered by Mr, Lew Fields differs in its mode of presentation from the average. The plot deals with a virtuous young chorus girl from the South who, by her innocence and charm, succeeds in smashing a few conventions with impunity...
...plot, which is rather candid without being risque, conters around jean Pone Pierre, a "Blue-Devil," who is in America to urge the United States not to go back on the French in their demands for indemnity from Germany. In the opening scene, we have presented to us the romance between Pierre and Mildred, which had its inception in France before the action of the play. Mildred is trying to obtain a divorce from her husband, Casper Henslow...
...play is rich with bits of real humor, with real acting and a plot reaching at times true melodrama. Surely Boston is fortunate to have Lou Tellegen here...