Word: songful
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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...
...that the substitute team scored chiefly through precise, accurate forward passing, in weather that was anything but conducive to precise, accurate handling of the ball, one may rightly conclude that the weather had too cooling an effect on the spectators' view point, and that they'll be singing another song next Saturday--and it won't be a dirge...
...Suite "L Arlesienne" Bizet (a) Prelude (b) Adagietto (c) Minuetto Orientale Cut Mr. Julius Theodorowicz Intermezzo Granados Gavotte from "Orpheus" Gluek Mr. George Laurent Elegle Massenet Mr. Johan Laugedoen Serenado Dirigo Menuel Paderewsky Boatmen's Song Russian Melodie
...catchy tunes, which have preceded the show to Boston by some time. "Girls of My Dreams" and "Tell Me, Little Gypsy", are familiar enough, and receive a large portion of the applause. Victor Herbert has added "The Love Boat," while Art Hickman's "Hold Me" is the only other song of consequence. One novelty that was introduced consists of a brilliant theatre audience facing the real spectators, in which the actions of an orchestra crowd during the intermission are travestied
...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 talk entitled "Out Front." Marie Dressler is amusing as always, but the real comedian of the show is Al Brendel...