Variety (Jul 1926)

-i Wednff^lay^ Julr 14 IMG REVIEWS VARIETY 81 JOY AND OIRL REVUr* (•) Inginfl and Danelng Miflis.: Ot%m and Full (•p«eial) Av«. (V.-P.) A tabloid rerue featuring Vnreljn hoe J and Edward Btlllman in an tntertalning pot-pouri oC aonf and ianoe numbers with aeTeral brief YAUDEynU REVIEWS The Kiliuta Trouoe of Japanese gymnasts made the flash of the pro- gram. Billed at the top they look important from the point of num bers (eight instead of nine as for merly), and in dressing and stage _ . - . ^« ..w At v_ijvi« paraphernalia. The six men have PALACE ^i^""^^' worked briefly, but fl^j class tumbling, and the /m* \/mud^\ ??7^V • man and a nifty double rlaley work is strikingly well , ^ I PTfc.l ^ Vaude) girl who scajcelF looka her strength, managed. One of the boys does a toedy scenes sandwiched In. The gi^hth and final week of Frank raa^,through Iron-Jaw tricks and turn and a half from one Rialey Jbtet make a youthful appearance, pi^y here—"too bad" or nhank double support swinging stunts, worker to the other, and their Work well together, especially the I heaTen.** according to tha way onalcloaing with a whirlwind spin by throws from a sitting or standing featured team, with result that the loeea him. Monday night marked hteltha girV whila. the maiMawed Qne I poBiHon luio a fuU Homoraault. front afferlna ia a refreahlng flash that L 100th consecutlre performanca at|««d of the rop^ and knocking in or back, to a standing iK>8ltion feet ITn Atlnd anotUng either In regti-| this Gibraltar of vaud^vlUe's de- an early.hit. to feet, are striking Ono of the Kn! iSt^^^ empire, no mean aooom- ^ » »>"l generally lacking boys does a full twister from one latlon va.udevlI-0 or better -ji^hment. And his blowoff week comedy, flash, ginger and Impor- pedal Juggler to the other. |nd stand upon Its own. finds Fay at hla top peak as a I tanee, far below Palace standard In Two cute little native girls do A male pianist prologing I raconteur, master of ceremonies the face of the line-up of dlstin- Juggling with little aticics. pa.salng |hyme sets proceedings going with | demonstrator of the eternal | ffuished performers In the program. | them from hand to hand after the loey and StlUman following for ajy^rity that Bamum was no chump, leat duet and dance, followed by a | Recelred like a conquering hero, leased revue bit by the trio anent I Fay strolls through tho show like owing the newly wM bride who's a steel knife Chrough so much ss with Stlllman meeting her af- cheese; If Fay wiU accept the knife ^H«..i.»A nvArtiirM with nnA nn th» Simile, the rOSt Of it gOOS aS It l» Loit. LOEWS STATE (Vaudo—PoU) ^ lectlonate overtures with one on the . ^iihln. A travesty swan dance ia manner of club Jug»;ler8. One of the cuties keeps six sticks in the air at once, but it is their quaint appear- ance (they do not look 20) that helps the effect more than their w< At m ^ I work. One of the ground tumblers . ^ oomblnatlon of Lon Chaney ^as an odd feat In a zig-zag row . ^. ^? Mandalay; and L^j flip-flaps, in which he does the ^tted next contributed by an un- | *'or It' Isn't good vaudevlUe this the two former ring idoU the back turns straight back from the %ilt«d «lrl dancer which will ordb-l^**'^ despite the presence of sev- past. James J. Jeffries and Tom footlights, but moving only from jJhiv mi«i «om«^i^^^ h"^ spanking good acts. Some- Sharkey, out-pointed the heat Mon- ,eft tS right aci%8s the same stage ^bly mean something after the ex- k^j^^ ^ something Is lack- day night at Loew's State. It sold groove. i, foutor wears off some of her con- 1^^^ Perhaps it is the audience both J out the house, except a few of the Mary Danis (New Acta) had a ^clousness and is less concerned ^jj^ spirit and in the physical 1 rear seats of the huge balcony. . tough assignment opening the sec- ^bout forcing the comedy. Out-I presence, for the theatre was half Jeffries and Sharkey -(New Acts) ond half of the show with a quiet fide of that it's o. k. filled and where the empty seats closed the regular vaudeville bill, comedy song cycle after a wealth of Solos by the fmtured members, weren't gaping the filled qnea were. They were given receptions that al- rough con>edy. ^ocal and dance, spaced by en- ^ slatternly, lackadisical. tepid most raised the roof. Tex Rickard Stella Tracey and Jay Glwood 'semblea bv flv« dunrinff- e-fria In of audience. A house like that would was also introduced as a "world's were the whoop hurrah, thanks to triirHvA inJt.rJl ilHo«5i- w™. havo broken Willie Hammersteln's champion" and the man who re- the clowning of Miss Tracey, who iracKive costume cnanges. keeps ^eart. fereed the Jeffries-Johnson fight at reckons not at all the methods of things humn^lng with a Russian ^hera ar« "nameii" iralore and ^^no- The promoter was actually getting her guffaws so long as they Charleston , finish that counted JJjf noUbli ^tually fall h***®'^®^*- He was visibly touched by are loud and long. There are mo- faeavy on the getaway. l/i*viirii nut th^ timA varvA lan't the token of esteem in his adopted ments when she forgets she is a Plenty of enterUlnment packed SJjJ"* even fo? the oM-tlme fave^^ h**^^ for'^assault In the running time with dancing They seemed to feel it too and Altogether It wound up a gala and battery, personal and verbal, predominating. Liked here as the though they gave and gave of'their evening and another bell ringing b^ut the results s^^ closer of the vaude section but best?they got back only the ghost h^»"deville bilL The sh^^ should even do better when some of what was once the most »oyal h»gh when "l*^^:^ Vi'l^^f ^fj SSIm^^^^^ of the newness has worn Off. The -d the most ^ ,,,, tracey principals are all right but the sup- t^lfj ^fecuS^s '^ the organ slide numbers of the p*c- might, if the audience were more port is creaky at times. Edba. \ ya"ocvnie regulars. ^^^^ houses, for a get-to-gether to fastidious than that at the Amer- Patricola woke them up a bit. I induce the house to sing. The thing I *can, tone down her comedy method Resplendent in a gown of several I ghould become a weekly feature at I get different effects, for she SMITH, HART and Co. (8) | shades, hitting off "Casey" and ^ the SUte. It caught on Imme- 'PPears to have a genuine twist of J ^ ' pot pourri of swift numbers, fiddling I diately I humor of a smoother sort than the ia hAiJL . ft*. /A.^-.iv h** ^* "P^^ dancing with Salle. Hassan and Moran (New P^rse play she served on this occa- Aml?rictn f;V{®''^*^'*'> her violin) she "went" welL But Acts) opened,^wed by EaJle and 8h?'s a ratheijlas.ling blonde American ^v-P) I gtlli the hearty and sponUneous Baskette (New Acts) I ^* ' good fellow" style fits her. 1 Boy and girl using the familiar 1 simultaneous huzzah didn't is- stuart and Lash* third, came I Elwood makes a capital foil for her ] k>Te-comedy dialog. In "one- with ™aybe it was because one isn't through breeslly with their comedy vehement funniments. I specUl curtain, on which is painted ""^^t? T**^? "^^S f*"!!;!! crossfire. danclQg and ■lAP»tick and Mu ? alimch waeon Th a thi«i nl^ii!^ "he plays, or hearing from "dressed ' comedy. They are a likeable pair lt**"*L * i****"^ f."^*f*w* r a iimcn wagon. The third member, h^ug,,, the scattered canister In ©f vouilrsters wiS I as the counter-man In the wagon. Loace of the one-time battery-fire. JibiTltSMf ^^^^ ^ ^ -Oreek restaurant" bit from bur- share of hit honors with some vooa!- zing and travesty imitations of Soph Tucker and Sam Bernard sing- ing a Charleston yong. Dave Kramer and Jack Boyle were the usual mop with their fast and furious comicalities in next to shut. Kramer's clowning was spaced by a ballad solo by Boyle, which thin mob went for heavy. A reprise of yesteryear melody hits Incorporated at the finish and also handled by Boyle made a neat getaway for the boys. "The Boy and^ Girl Revue" (New Acts), youthful song and dunce re- vue headed by Evelyn Hoey and Eld- ward Stlllman. got over neatly in the closer. "Silence.** film, followed. Edba, BROADWAY causes Uughs with yelled orders of Jack Norworth and his current H food off sUge. Such as. when the I Mrs . Dorothy Adelphl. opened In I * J^j™^»VoilSTJr*?dli.*^^ ^® suggesting a charac- girl complains her feet hurt her b«jl; the lights were blw 'SS^^idti JTl ^mtS after the walk. "Hot Dogs!- And mt^^Wble comedy qnlp. were Uas voted too expensive for -ome Jj^^J^^^l when the lK>y say. ho love. her. -P^^n.^a Jew doj^^^ The girl, blond. Is cute and aloiMaic eutJiwAv hut rAtiLinlnir th«l. . *•? ^ vf * •"•,"*"e- M|^m^nor that has the comedy es- goojj comedienne. A dance by her S^Jf* hat iST^ and L"*l ^5* i*"*! sence in It They abandon the Greek and the boy Is Just fair. thrred hai?^ Srl tcS>k t^e niW ^^^u ^^^a 7?*? »tuff after one number and then go m t^t li, I • rea nairea giri cook me P^no. pii^tos of Irving Berlin and Lisxt through a. Dutch acene nftAPWArd Not capable of big things with it got along snappier. Norworth is iome to life and controversy about golSglntJ suiiSit^^^^ for small time.* as the Palace is sUU the I^»ace- sitlons. . „ ^ . , more elaborate development. It's a .The girl.Is clever. |. . ^^Y.V T^^i^ui!^^ J^Jt "jr*"*^' °" ^*°""' ^hale of an Idea that could be made S,J^' If 'i?!rA HI-' S^t^^Si lyrically, debate the the basis of a whole act by merely were good, if you like his slow and k„erits of the pair with the audi- elaborating and enriching the fam- R08A ROSALIE tantalizing dehvery, and the young ence as "Judge." Hyde Is now Uiar material. The restaurant Greek •ongs Mjoy P"}*?? * hot one when he reading lines like a real trooper and i« aufflcient of a metropolitan per- 14 Mine.; One sassed his boss bacic; otherwise it acting all over the place. Alex U sonage to be orystaUlsed Into a American (V-P) T "Tt*^ "k! w ^ heen also getting a play at the Rialto, vaudeville turn. This pair has the « " „ jor eight weeks, which is a life- kj^here his band with himself lead- makings of a first rate novelty. The Rosa Rosalie sings, fihe is ac- time in vaudeville. Fay finished ing are seen in the UFA feature ex-tem nonsense at the finish is companled on the piano by a Miss I strongest on the bni. He closed the "Variety." The musician was in capital, made up of short brisk bits Pennington, very pretty, given bill- | ®i*PT~'* w'.® management Germany appearing at the Winter and served out one at a time instead ing on the stage placards. thinks of him as he passes hie c«n- Qarden when the feature was made, of taking bows. Miss Rosalie has an easy moving r"'"^u"* ' ^ * audience rides Larry I^ch and Cherie (New Salina s Circus, man and woman arid pleasing natural voice While r"r.? i apparently. Acts), another great combinaUon. working dogs, a pony and a quartet rm? nf thA B-ranH ™^ ^osing intermission, Emma Haig foHowed and Stopped the show cold. of monkeys, made a quiet finish, not of the grand opera type it is and Olln Howland (New AcU) with running to a speech. Rich also The tricks are simple and latking in strong and nt for vaudeville. She Buddy Shepard's orchestra, ran Uiowned around in the Jeffries- novelty after the opening bell ring- includes popular numbers. "Rega fairly well, but finished only so-so. Johnson act. He pulled a howl when 1 ing by the pups and call for a lot Rose" Is sung in seven different Eddie Conrad, with "Charlotte." walked on, following the Intro- | of working up languages for a good finish. The hh« blackface mammy contralto. | Auction for Jim Jeffries. Con. tongues are Chinese, the authen- h'^h Morion Eddy, a soprano of lesque into a comedy number that I (Vaude-PicU) Monday night found lots of empty seatH, downstairs and up. The bill got a bad start with Fay. Elliott and King (New Acts) leading off, this impersonation act flopping. Ann Suter (New Acts) picked up the show in the deuce, but the prolonged Joa B. Stanley sketch, while funny In spots, wasn't a strong U'ey and had the boys and girls listless throuph its repetition of comedy. Fourth were the Ryan iSisters. classy team who harmonized well with some pop eluff, working in "one" and paving the way jazzily into the Jack Powell's Entertainers' turn, the Ikig spot of tho show. Powell had L*ew Rice, comedy dancer, and Flo Fox, singer, work- ing with his nine bandmen. while I*owell himself, in blackface and clown suit, worked his drums so hard that they were bleeding when the encores finally stopped and the curtain settled in front of the Hand- era and Minis routl|ia, silly, crasy and funny. These boys have recently, returned from a London engagement, and although they're doing the same routine as ever there were lots of Broadway attendants who hadnU seem 'em before, becau— the laughs came in like bills on tho first of the month. Ed and Loe TTraver. strong man and acrobats, closed tho show strongly, their nsain stunt of a roller skato leap down a chuto then a eap to the understander sitting im a chair about six feet renlovod click- ng like the trigger of a woU-olM plstoL The feature picture was "Sllonco,** while the Patho news reel held aerial views of tho Denmark Lake. N, J., explosion. And speaking of what explosion, which has as muoh to do with this review as the JKour Hundred with the Four MllUon. Patho had everything that overy single newspaper in town, from the tabloids up, claimed to have exclu- sively. The way these news reels go In and grab hot stuff should shut some of these boasting sheets up, for without claiming that tholr men risked their lives or that hundreds of people were having their toes blown off as their films were being taken, Pathe simply presented them minus the buncomk>e. 8i§k. ticlty Of which cannot be sworn to: I miJ^i?Scint7 let^'hU SSfer Jown English. Italian French Russian. rS£"*j?^t?lt^^^^^ Spanish and Hebrew. Miss Rosalie tody of the turn held like the pyra- should change her announcing card mids—strong in Conrad's eccentric to read "Yiddish" in place of comedy, scintillant in Miss Eddy's half or thereabouts makes for a "Hebrew." * " ' ' " " * — Miss Pennington plays a medley vocal The picture Is "Say It Again," backed up with one of the "Our Gang" comedies. AMERICAN 5TH AVE. (Pcts-Vaude) pure Vinglngr For a 'fli;^i;: ConTkd I brisk entertainment, A straight act I A iZ% cent, comedy bill the at the piano, "straight," accom- opens; a turn without laughs closes, Arst h^^^^ ui „ tL^J ^1-* hilt hAtwAfin thATA was an abund- Monday night. Six acts and H. B. (Vaude-Pets) Eight acts run off in an hour and Of po>s7duH;ra;^a^^^^^ ^^^^^ T^^IS'^^^^^^^^^ i^??^.le?i^"^Ss" t^s^re^ her playing is good, she impresses -"^H ^5?^^^ut' 1? U aJISu^cIf: Kfs^^us^ Yco^^^^ have feature more on looks. I *"_*"t?f I Dl«aBAd 8th avenue more thorouKhly. I The comedy percentage was aver led by George Yoeman and Liz zle In the trey, and Kramer and .ore on looks max. Is Conrad dominates the act «th avenue more thoroughly, ^girby Oeo^'rire ltnd*L!z On second at the American. Miss 1 thereunto It ia a nowerfui numh»r Business Monday nighi was remark- P*®*", ^^orge roeman and Liz Rosalie was liked and could have but .""Nothing b^t^^^^^^^^ ably good, with the house three •m the trev. and Kramer an. easily encored. She Is for that type I principals should follow it, In- of house. stead, the women exit, and Conrad, alone, attempts a piffiing speech, paraphrasing a weak, old Joke per- petrated by Fay earlier, letting it all down with a blob. But the main portions of the act are rich in vaudeville values. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," an en EARLE and BASKETTE Piano, Songs, Dsnce 14 Mine.; Ons Loew's SUte (V-P) Emily Eearle and Billy Baskette I gemVle"of'efght menVwI^^^^^ comprise this combination. Bas- car effect and a roadside set. is a kette is a song writer and pianist, I breathlcFS run of song, dance and and Miss Karle has been around In | efforts at comedy. Typical of bur- vaudevllle, at one time appearing Ipsque fill-In stuff of 1900, with old- in "Peek-a-Boo," when it played ''"'hloned methods and old-fash- the Columbia <:ircult. material, this outfit seemed She Is a good-looking brunette h''®'' ^«ffht heads here. There with T^^i.ft^ ^^^A^^viJ waa «o*ne obvious plugging out r ^, ^ f^^ wardrobe. Baskette L^^^^t ^ , entry. It got by. handles the piano for her first two Und no more. spngs, both pops, then deserts the Claude and Clarence Stroud (for- box monentarlly to deliver an "Im-1 picrly Stroud Twins of the night presslon of a colored preacher" in I clubs) deucod It merrily. A coupio Place of the usual piano solo. The] of cle^n-cut kld.s with tap-dancing character bit included much fa- P<*nlu«. a few of Rath Brothers' be.-^t miliar material but pulled laughs, m®"™®"^' he.Hthy voices and a bit Miss Earle returns after a change I comedy, they were pleasant to for another pop, following which they see and hear. Thoy had to go to a . . # T> 1 »* . I speech, and not a bad one. .Here 1h have a medley of Baskette'sL' ^^^^ any bill in any songs. This put them away .solid, ^pot ^ girl-winner and a "cia.sa" turn In "one." Frances and Frank, opening In but for an encore they trotted out a colored hoy in bell hop unie for a fa.it jazz dance. That insured them a riot. Good act. Con, place of Sic Tahar and Co. (wliloh passed out because of a tragedy at Grant and White (New Acts). quarters filled, a substantial better- I I^oyle in next to shut. Other stabs ment over last summer's attendance. coniedy were made by several of The frameup was a striking col- ^he Inbetweeners but it didn't mean lection of clean cut specialty ma- * thing. Despite the warm night terial. Acrobats stuck to that line. sparse audience those in were So did dancers and singing turns, over appreciative, with earh turn Not once In the evening did what accorded the courtesy of volunteers should have been a dumb act burst appearing afa benefit. Into eloquence. This is an Improve- .^J^^C' card lllusloalst, opened ment of a few years ago. h'*?..'^** three-card monte layout Carl and Emma Frabel, boy and \ ^^^ disappearing girl continuing the girl wire walkers, made a trim open- P""ch and getting oyer nicely, ing. The man does some Interesting ^ Taki and Yokl. Jap musical eccentric and Charleston dance steps t""'neatly with Hongs, on the strand while the girl makes dfincing and Instrumentation. The a pleasant appearance and works ^V^n han«lle<l the musical end. with expertly, notably a rope-sklpping fhe girl vocalizing a few and pack feat without the help of the parasol. a wicked "Charleston" at th Cooper and I^cey start in Chi- nnish. ^ . . .. nese costume for no good reason. CoorKe Yoeman and 'Lizzie." next but once the introductory number Is Provokfd the first laughs thus far ovor. they go straight Into their Voomnn Is doini; his former "Assas- stepplng. tho man first In a dinner h'^'^^'d I'ress monolog. brought ui coat and later In comedy military i^^'ale with some radio trappings pet up. Ho is a first rate soft shoc P^he wi.secracks are planted jn an- dancer with a numlHjr of compli- "^cr to supposed querieH ovor tho rated Jazz movements. The woman wirclo.ss t( l< pli;>no and well bunchod to ko« p tho jnoh In a roar. Liz. as tho nlL;ht club fati^'ucd .stenoK K « f j».s ^hrt>in:h It all a.s of yoni ainl v.h'ii (Mioryjn^' if Hho l.s tf> roi>ort Iho 8,'imo tirno tomorrow \» In- Htniffod to ronio ;in h ivr ^:\r\\<'r mo s.)io <-ur\ hIoo|> lonirt*r ii» th*' f;iK- Nf.ri' tl<'. diiiiinuf; v- .S(»i';;sl rr,-., uim) mlrnic, followed and giahborj her for a solo dance d')es "Inipre.ssion.s" of dancers, getting somothlnp of the .spirit of the different subjocts and oxoruting their stoi)3 with a hlKh do^roo of .^kill. Thoy OMsay no talk and i>aok a lot of sporinlty into 10 minuto.s. Thoy drew Bubstanllal rooopnif Ion Tab m 10c Muan (Continued froip page 1) day. The tab is said to stand the management around $200 weekly. Three of the girls aro young, one mlddlo-aged, while Miss Dent Is s large woman. Her part of the perr formance is to announce each spe- cialty and warble several poprano numbers. Despite her weight, she wears a knee-length dress, short socks, and has close-clipped hair. For one number she sits on the piano, later getting on her knees In the middle of the stage for the finish. 24 Shows Dsily The girl who doubles from the mystery shows is actually working about 24 shows a day in Hubert's, as she submits to the Chinese Tor- ture Chest act, the sword cabinet and then rushes over the fioor to get into costume for the tab. Hubert's, Incidentally, is playing acts during the summer with Major Packard, midget fire eater; Volta, doing an electric chair stunt; 'John Lima, who plays a saw (for mu- sic) ; the torture cabinets, the tab show, and John Rubra fiea circus. The fiea circus has been the really successful show of the out- fit at Hubert's for about eight months. For this a separate ad- mission of 16 cents is charged. Huhl probably sharing with the hall or paying ront. Ituhl has a good line of dry lalk In staging the circus, thl.s gelling laughs. BiMie Shaw roplaced Myra Hamp- ton, on<' of the fliif»p'*r8 in "f'radle .Snat< h< r.s' at the Music Box last wo.-k. .ToH« phine I>rnke addod to oast of • So's Y<.ijr Old Man." sfarring W.C. I' ic'Id.s for I' . V -U