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...always be a feature of our drama. A production such as Sally has just as great artistic value as a regular play. Fortunately, however, the day is past when a producer could collect a few chorus men in silk hats, some chorus girls in short frocks, a couple of slap-stick comedians, some old jokes, and a little music, call the tout ensemble a musical comedy, and draw crowded houses...
...Steel, "the celebrated American tenor"; and Harry Breen, of whose act the public never tires. On the other hand, a distinctly ultra-modern tendency in dancing and dress is displayed by Mr. Bryan and Miss Braderick in "Bill Board Steps". A clever "rehearsal", with humour ranging from satire to slap-stick, is Vistor Moore and Emma Littlefield's skit "Change Your Act or Go Back to the Woods". Greenlee and Drayton offer some bright polylinguistic dancing. Due to the length of the many acts, there is no playlet this week...
...Stoddard burlesques Marillyn Miller well. Belle Story, a Hippodrome version of Galli-Curci (with mockery on the flute) registered more high notes than applause, Carl McCullough, advertising "Slikum" and the Irish (Query: Why play Boston?) burr, does a good telephone conversation. Joe Boganny and troupe prove the acme of slap-stick tumbling (yes, the dwarfs are there). William Horlick and Sarampa Sisters hold the crowd in at the last with a pleasing dance symphony, starring their own drop, a pair of crotales, and certain familiar Liszt music. Ben Linn, a sure-fire artist, Shubert Weekly News and Intermission complete...
...other two pictures on the bill are both comedies; one presents Viola Dana in "Home Stuff"; the other is a refined slap-stick comedy blessed with the vague name "Sneakers". The appearance on the title of the latter of a picture of a young child and a dog, leads one to believe that it is a picture of youthful adventure, but it turns out to be a tale of married life, concerned chiefly with the doings of the husband and wife in a society gambling house. "Home Stuff" is an unsatisfactory attempt to make a comedy...
George Fitch, when he produce his slap-dash classics of freshwater Kollege Kut-ups, appeased because of his hearty exaggeration. But Mr. Minnegerod has taken it all so seriously! We hope and trust that Yale men are not the self stratified, sitiy prigs which he makes them...