Variety (Oct 1929)

46 VARIETY REVIEWS Wednesday, Qctober 16, 1929 .strutters' Ball," . an4 ''Missouri Will tic." . ^ A1»ft Lyman is still more or loss.of . ft Kid in liis liOme town and.as pop- ■ujiir as a sood-iiaturc.d .lii4. His bartfi.. is. aiilOTiK tlie five, best doing stage work' and- does hot drag: its n'umberg;..6utv .', . ■.' ' ''^ The- Orix^ntal's whrtle- stage fiho\v lasts 'a' slim.; 30 Tuiniitesv v but '.'•ii^ snappy.' J'liiyod to a pacUed house at nOon tiihe. jirid a^ crpwa.ivas; wilt- ing outside for the second sliow,. for L3:mah's ' buncli ' h<lsh't . been h^re Bineo a year ago. Abo had stsi^fe fright the fir.st five minutes, init finnlly got gojn^r; smoothly as the chiriie xjffect.s^ of his brass. . Lymivn hfia always been heavy on brass, but-likes it. sAveet. When the band shades into i'yl;inl«- simo he c.uis niost of. it :rather than try to imitiite tl^e dulebt drGhe.strar t;lons of (Tuy LoiTibarcTO. . . \ Band is .set ojpon aClpw balcony with silvered front, aihder a notched, vai-iegated creloniie drojx Sixteen regulars,- and 17 when tyhian does his speeialty on ;,the. drums,- with - a set of traps of his oWn to the front,-, Open w'ith^ ''Pagan L'bve Sdhg,^', and- rear drop. i>art.s du.H'iff - ln.st. chorus to show four girl.sand a in an in ,a: pagan scene (behind, th(i band) posed to rear of net"^criniv Splendid use of the brass . in .this ^number, Healy and Clifford, male tap team, follow, with band, but if is air band and very little Healy arid Clifford. "In the Hush of. the Night" next number, with Phil .Neely,: first vio- linist, tenoi'ing and called for a re- peat. Sax boys, hush .lip arid violins carry the. melody,' with the har.sh brass well muted... Ted and .lack iDal© cbriie out of the band, double In frbxit with a midget piano and a xylophone for a, comic sorig and then xylo and whistling, which should be cut for more straight' piano .comedy. "Twelfth Street Rag" is ^pld-fdshr loned, with Abe juggling drumsticks. Jean Lawrence, formerly of Born and Lawrence, out next In his high hat with face, unshaven and suH^n look, " to whLsper two songs •virlth deaf-mute gestures. Clicks on. first eritranes. Band finales wjth "Orange. ^ Blossom Time," dr^igged a, bit. Might try two nuriibers Instead. •toyman is not a. ranking m., c. '■I'rles very ilttl© comedy but raay warm up in a few days and without hid coon.skin coat. Publlx wilV keep him at the Oriental two weeks in- stead of one. - "The Love Doctor" (Par), shorts, news and organlog by Preston Sell- ers. Loop. Proctor's 5th Avenue (now .Yiddisli) and the Grand Opera Hou^o at 23d and 8th. AH the.se.thoiatros (includ- ing- Greeley) di'?iw- from the same territory, as far west fis' I'Otli ave-. nue and as far east as 2d avenue. XVosterri Klerti'iC 'equipment In- .stalled here about a year ago, when vjiudo, wCnt put^ ..' .: SHERIDAN ALBEE^ BROOKLYN . (Continued: from page 4.4) . • drooping eiid atid cpilapsing fiddle, Internilttertt isong, dance arid talk, very loosely handled, la what dpean't click. Team has played the best dates; which, still doesn't -. moan everything.. ^' ■ ■• .Third was Junior Durkiiri, juvenile, that Miss' Marbe cpmes thr6ugh satisfactorily Bfi a yaudcvllllan, since she's been away for so long and re-, memberirig she mostly depended on personality. Ml^s Marbe remains, as ever, purely a saleswoman, and a good Pne, of. her persona,! attraic- tivenPss. - There Is ah . abundance : of gpoii daticing' in the; Rddion Danc.ers, ?ketch, \vith twO .nien...and .a Bltl Ppor id^a.makes it quite i.flop, re- iyirig. for Its .scant reception .oh. the boy's big prying .i^.cerii^ wJi'eri a rich Goujile: refuse: to adopt hipi .and the reforriiatoxT refuses \to take hiri(i, ^ , , „ ^-^i- .■ ■ ■.^ cry. in; '-Kid Is good! . - Aubrey, should vhave no. troubld. at; ; Dooley and ^alos' hit the boardsk^i.^"^^'l®,^aff^"^ around vsupper tiriie. :a^ fine singing and . talking great with new stufC, arihouric(errierit : ti-^w -««/i n^m^ -ar^^tr^w of^fhe Cubs-Athletlcs score. .Worthh,^ ?SL^®^r^^ copying, but th.e ser^es-ls over. .. As- ^«^^^=fI^^f^^.^^I^ ' « ^^^rH - slstlng the comic and Miss sales Iste^^ a hooing youngster brought on for h^^^l «*^> °«*t,;t.<> «l^se. - ".more full the finish.- Give Dooley an inter- I ^t^ge, coiripdy ^cts like this one. GREELEY SQ. I Now York, Oct. 14. With the .clPak and'suit incVistry having moved uptown and spre^sd to the east and Avesl, this Loew picture grind finds itself in what fs prac- tically the goograplilcal center of this groat district. Without the lights on its marquee, 6th avenue at 30th street where It stands, would appear as deserted as most oC the otiier stroola around. Hardly any stores or shops open on the ave nue below 31th .«{treet at night. Despite its location, and the changing times, the Cjreeley Square gets a fair audience and an orderly one. Monday night's first floor was three-quarters filled or more, .but as would be expected, more men than worinen. The house, now straight pictures, playing a talker show of a little more than two hours on the aver age, gets a better play at matinees than In the evening. Afternoon business is mostly trarialcnt, . ftc dordlng to Manager Se.idlitz, with the aftor-suiipe - performance draw- ing people from the nearby large hotels, as well as shoppers from Long Island and other points, using the Penri; Station two bloclis away who may be waiting for trains. The mailing list the theatre, has Infll cates this, the manager points out Five changes a week here^i^I.orii day, Tuesday, .'Wednesday, Thurs.- day and Saturday, with double fea- tui-es rarely booked. The Usual pro gram is a feature, two or three talking shorts ?tnd a. newsrcel. ■ Monday's show, typical of those given, Intludod "Piccadilly,". Kng- lish made, wjth a five-rri.inute talk- ing prolog (rest synchrohlised); .t\y.o talking shorts,' .Raymond. H|tclicoc.k in a comedy sketch, "Sardines a-la Carte," arid Jan GArber; Hearst Metrotone . News and the iisiial trailer. - Fealui-e has . Gilda Oray William V. Mprig and Ming .Toy in cast- and ii3 the. sort .of -melpdrarii liked here as a rule. . Shorts average grind product. The talkers go : well here, Mr. Seldlitz! stated, .with the bouse re- puted to. be doiniff .one-third more business than .vvheii it had vaud- ' film. The. "nut" shaved -with the Elimination of orchestra, organist and- stage crow,, was Jncrerised in ; Other wtiys,- iriciuding co.<?t of . op- erating talkers, and the "tixkc"^ wag effected by reduction PC in-iee.i to 350. .top, during_the ,wo9\<;j'^y-;'; Saturdjry^'mafinec and 40crSaturd{iy evehlrigs and all Sunday;- . The grind Is ^from 11 n. ni. to 11 p. m., with a turnover of six shows. Although thei Greeley Square is an -old hou.so, it . Is hipre inviiing arid comfortablo than .som'o of the other grinds - throughout (^resiter New York. Conslderin.g cveryth|-ng, it Is in fairly good shape. CS-reeUw's nearest oppo.<^ilifm. is Reade's SavuVf 34tii jind Broadway; - V '," ; .New^YorK,^ OCti-14;;-. '■ Gone lo\V^'brow, . a. fJiVorite meet- ing >spol: for kleptomahiaps or those niuggs;. that can't- resltit .the..yen. to take' hpVfte sonieXh'ing:. belpriging^.-t^ spincori-ti elsev'. : ' .V - ■ ■- • ' • All: this .'frPm. .an. a who ha.s \yat('hed .the-ldecadqnce of' th.6. ;pa tron'sii.'^ ■- : ■■ ':}, ''■ ' : •' .' -. Y eaVs •: ago. ■ w hen ' the h6use was first -built arid operated by the Sheridan^ Group,..it. catered to a high hat ri'ipb, situa.ted. along the extreriiT ity<bC the far-famed :Greehwich Vil- lage, .arid .-drew th^> elite of that bl^sarre.burg,'J ^ ■•^- ' .. • The:in.strumentation: seemed :to be the magnet, then; a^ tljie'. pictures were ;^ma.lL'. time, ..but. how the 10- rii in u te overtures <irew the plaudits. Two years, ago Loew took-over the bpeVatipn - of , this preteritioUs- the- atre, and pretentious It is-with Its high arched roof, pretty lobby arid, lounging rporri and archaic passage-- ways, ctit the admit a. little^ and cut/ the pit. orchestri a lot. , ' Better pictures cariie;- and. on" its h<?el3 follPwe'd ;souttd., ;\Tha.t ■ corri-i pl<ited the .. metamprphbsis ' Ih . the class of patroriage and ..resulted. Jji the"first seriteriep.:'' ' - ...: ;< . irpr gppri th6 manag^mezit noted fixtirresi carved .: piePes. of furnittirei arid, pretty .atmo$phferical.plec.es hot where they, '.used to be, in .fact not anywhere lifi .the -theatre.; 'An^ eternal cause of bewildlerriient was that seats were fburid lifted bodily firom their resting place and car,ted to. the aibbde : of .the. .sritten How this was dbne is still a "mystery to the house force but as;the. w. attendant ex-, plained most are found missing" dur- ing; the winter seaspn. That means they most likely, or nriOst likely a skirt, tuck it under their coat and walk off. But no chance 'to repeat, as the management says enough Is enough and has nailed dovVn everyfhlrigieft ' This house spats 2,/700,- built- -just right for a. yaiiide br'pii^t piresen- tatioji ppllcy, but as it draws'near capacity repeatedly, th,e extra- ex- pense of stage enUrtalnment.would bjriily mean moi^ hoirhe- Office^ expenise without a bopst in b. b;- prices!. >Pa'- ;ro"n3 might . not stan* ; fbr . this. Many, come In worfcli^g jerseys -and .overalls, . . ' A name talker alwa;ya piills a .full house. ,Thig night Par's "Dance of Life" to capacity at 25c., iOc. and -65'c. As another examp, barely . any went for the 65c. loges, while standees were In the oroh. • Fox Movietone News only other -flicker aittractlPn. If you are thinking of furnishing a home, come down hefe, whP ^Ji^ved: corisiderable^^entlon -Jll^^^fcf fo5 his , performance In the. legit, **^f,,^'"- JitS,f ^L^^'.^i^'i^'^f.S^ vcoiiragc^r; He's .iiv . a <Vap^"<: ^i;;^ '^^^S'^^, ? thPuicfh'there' are. six in it . with no outstander;' .. .By what he accompHshed with, the ritiatl.niee's' half a house . 'Will Aubrey,., deuciri^ It,' gave; .clear Indication: of >V;hat he is; capable of doing-with a niuch Instrumentation' in Stang's as . the routine consists hialnly of war- jling and comedy skits, Stang hlm;- self works with the boys closer than the usual bandmaster does, and ac- complished good results, especially during a femme Imperse. The; femmeirni)erso'natibns we're used as a. skit; later ■ by fpur boys in; comedy glrile gfit-up and. the highlight ;One ; fleshy chpp made, a peTSohal'hit. dur- , irig. this ,i3klt by vocallng in a'sweet ; clear alto.' and dellyering- dialog Irt ■ comedy falsetto, fashion. • Between, second and third act pne of the Lancaster and lieerniijg boyg came ,put .to' announce the yrbrld aeij'ies scpress But. he .couldn't" han-i die that ad lib .as he does, hl.^ own lines, .for he .got riled repeatedly and; balled lip. the workSii. This was • rer ceived' with th.e hibst, .cpmment-^tho. scb'res,'^not th'9,^bpyi' . '' ■ '•• ested crowd and .his chatter Is okay. Dowriey .next and- Carl'; Shaw iclpp/-. Ing;. Shaw has-been in.yaUde since 16, and he'3 still - yoijrig,. A. fine acrobatic and -hock dancer, backed by dancing sister team.- and,. man and gIrL .who .combine for adaglO arid tangp routIne3; .Act .dressed. a;ttraetlveiy and Shaw's dancing big :tlme.-\'- ■'■:.■■'■ ' ■Heavy' business on. the Saturday hpiiday. yaude could reduce'the daily dPse . of aspirin; for it's heaidache "by. plenty: of;.graihs,-- ' Bigig,--- LINCOLN SQi r (Vaudfilm) show. Lpew^s representation at the juricr tibn -.Pf ;. CblUmbus- and .[Broadway ^ was. in reviie form Saturday. JSvlr Near incapacity for supper,1 dbntly in resppnsp" to the'recent eX- Bangl: SffUi STREET pression that'Jake Lubin and . Mairr vln: Sc.henck; Were not ; pi;ejudiced against uttita, Dave'Harris , has shot the. bahkroU on what he labels "Variety Land." ., (Vaudfilm) V ; It Is (New Acts) a fairly brisk. With vaude cut tP aimbpt a wbl^^^ weH-mounted. and : quite per at the deth .Stfeet and -three ^'Cceptable, unit pitched to pop acts bboked in by the Keith bopk- hplghborhppd key. There seeriis np ers that meant, hbthing as a) gate I reason to suppose It will miss un lure in this aeCtlori. the vaude pper- f i^ss a if;eneral. embargo on units - is ators made a frank gesture that the sud'^'^riiy declared..-. : acts" weye running secbrid fiddle to There's a .fatherrahdrson ,element the jpicture. Yet itwaa a fact thatM»®re somewhat stmiiair to; the Pat with only three acts, the vaiide as B^ooney .situatlpn,: Harris Isn't presented turned oiit real enter- P^ooney or a family name.of reputa talhment. its screen balance yrasl tlon, but that angle should^ be very "Street .Girl" (Radio) which might '^elpfal frpm. a show-selling stand- be. entitled to credit for the pretty Polrit. Besides, which Dave, Jr., ex^ good house In for tiie second show cuslng a voice a little indefinite in Saturday,: it was a holiday and '*riSe, gives a .good accounting of there , were many people on the ypung self. street?, The - show opened . with "Devil's Circus,". Meyer Goldents. act and' which Is workingf. itself intb a. flashy turn, especially on the work jof the adagio' djCncers; -.That .ilttle dancer (apparently Edna :Mliler) makes her part: stand out like- a; plrcus thriller |:in the way she •.riprichaiantiy. takes risky leaps and- tosses by the two men " ' This turn has Marie Shea, aCro batlc dander; For the rest of the four bits there" was. Pararripunt'3 • I'Dance. of. Life" on thfe-sbreen. .. ' Ldtid. 58TH ST. SAVOY (Vaudfiltn) Good show alkaroiind, with'"Street Girl". (RKO) to draw and foiir standards caring for the stage end Wheii they: open.; with ppye and , wjTose ''s^ecIaUIesl Maye-arid end ,with : t^^^ played. up tor a standout through deucing. .with .Harry and Prances a special background. The 86th .Usher, and treylrtg with Kramer and Street audience Jiked the act im- Boyle, bill can't be bad. .. mensely. ' Harry Roye-and BUIee Maye are Ina Willianis and Jere, Delaney reunited after a year or 30. A provided the only cOmedy aspect couple of new numbers^ may constl- and were a pushover. The elong- tute. a hew act, but in retrospect it's ated Delaney' and the diminutive along the same lines and. of the same Miss Williams clbwhed for applause calibre as past Roye and Maye dance and. laughter.' Their ventrlloqulal [ turns, In the new section is a cbm- bit is surefire as werked Up. "ream :blriatIon singing and dancing lesson . .. .workers Who make every thing they in which Miss Maye ..takes, some TtMfi, *-iA New Tprfc, Oct. 14. f do'count; ; dangerous chances on her toes, fhr^ oiL ' ^ i years on . . In the closing. position was the How her toes will stand up in the It^r.^^^,^ ^F, ' ^ ^^X^Y 34th dramatic presentation by Maude Uhree-a-day Under the twisting she c!n„"; , ' i? now called.the New Powers and Vernon Wallace en- gives them when elevated will be a jn^T^L f because it had Its titled ."New York." The billing mystery. A interpretive Indian o™?f'i w~tSJ^*;^ \, ^ gives the : Hattpns, Frederick and dance, called "Eagle Hunt," is the Tnr^ml tI1«^^ ^^^"^"^ «^n<5 Fanny, credit for the skit, but ap- fla^h clbser or?hi n^frfwh^S^^ Wallace's experienced The Ushers, a sock No. 2, with from t^^^^^^ put real touches to the Kramer and Boyle repeating in the In J^MnU;^ ^'''^'^^^^^^^^^^ ' follow-iip. The Colleanos brought Lr*>nt ^a^i ^ ^ ""^'^ close .to a It is a,clever array of tidbits, of them all home." Bige. ^u^,r IVv^ ,^:''®«' I" summer In any man's, taxicab. The only P Savoy at 40c to drawback to it is the inability of get out of the. heat and In winter to the fblkS sitting in the back to, iic.^'^i, '^-^'^ (.Vaudfilrh) ei.s6. has also been a drawmg. card between the characters enacted by Situated on 12Bth street, near the rpr tne nouse. . - - MiSs Powers ahd'W'aliace. The idea heart of the largest black belt In the j^i^Ii^® **^'^"f ^'j^ "^°''""^^^^o^^ the cab thi^o.iigh a dark stage world, it is quite; unusual to., see 5°?.^*° midnight. Different forces the sketch' duo to "work iip- J practically ; this whole Loew house scaie.s at different hours, but noth-.l stage, which dpesn't ^ive the voices flUed with wthltes and only a smat- ing above me.^ It^ lnpstty:35-4irc.f' rmuch play. . : " teririg of the'polored "folk around, ic.irs ago. the Savoy belonged to | ..-The taxicabist is brought into pp- it. Seem? as though circuit vaude VICTORIA gone ajid^baek again,, the Savoy:ha her.fast work pn the taxi Seat.' 'S?H?;-^'*"V"'^}-***'*?'-<'-":.'" .It ."Qw plays The dramatic.climax is-the ki silents or. t.nlker.^ and.'on double df>ys one pf- earh, Itis like Loew's New York on r.erital prices, The brothers ei-y- ht anything over. |7.50, and .Walter probably thi'eatens to cancel anything, on the Reade .."circuit in New Jer.sey that doesn't play the .Savoy for a jitney. Daily change for the.picture, but little ehangc for anything else; . The, carpet wfji.s ' clr>aned [ once, but that] h.is been, forgotten. In other dayia one of- the big. flraws were lobby photos, of anything ^ind sometimes Saturday afternoon. Hbuse -^yas Is-thP killing I good deal less than- half. full. Even of the under:wOrld chap , by -his with ias mtich publicized: a big time sweetie, for dpuble. crossing her. . It stage a;dapted talkier as Par's "Dance Is corking meller and brfngs some- [ Of Life," But .those .that were pres- thing a little different ■frito..vaude:. ent: responded- whole-heartediy to A delightful feature here was the eacli of the : three turnis, cut down pipe organ playing of Janics from five, because of the length of Thomas;. HP piped a merry medley the fiicker. of late songs. A: big hand at the|; Lewis and Stoval . Revue (New clbae. SiST STREET (Vaudfiln.) °^AT««,v!^*'Tr''"i,f *i d I Vaude end t h e first half trimmed t 'Sf^hr Wo n ;\ »3 a . lengthy picture. Fay it .might h.ivo Jed the public tp. be-| ^3,^.^6 closed the vuude. Three llevc the people n.amed were there is the 5?av(.y'.s theory.: -^^fi v In opposition the. Savoy ha.«(n't Date here Is a break-In for*-Miss Acts), lately With RKO, started the works in a slow tempo which re malned that way. But to this house a revue Is all that the name Implies arid if the setting is half colorful. It goes. And-that's why this revue "went" he r e, Ijaneasfet and Leerning folToxved and hit right in the proper spot with their IPW hpke. Crossfire tickled as did the. ridiculous "nut" ImpersPna tipn of the .short; tellow. Boys have added a few new gags recently which proved riot as effective as the old reliable original chatter. Flung Marbe (New. Acts). At- least. It them from all sides, thoughi and .irtv Tt'«5 lust tlioVe nn thif 1.itli """"" v^^ew . A.'ui.a/. jn.\. iL-uoi.. iL infm irom ail Sl( sSiVt, no ma? ter'tb/rio!^' or' S ^^^iJ^'^^r^^'iJ^^ '''%^}:^. '''T^ , - • Saturday. Thats taking a chance O.'^onr. St-ing .t.ti (Continued on page 4!)) . I in this neighborhood. Fortunate I featured, and clo .T.nd his prchestr.i closed nicely. Not tlHQUE MEDR^ -■ '■ (Indfobr circus) , ; ^ - (PARIS) , • ■■- Paris, Oof 12, ■ <jlrque- Medrano,; like; the other (5:oritinerital Indoor circuses (as one la^^givfeh to understand); is a teyeia- . tioh In-ecbnomleai nightly b'ne-ringr circug divertissement. It is a stylo, of entertaihrneht . whlchr' one won-, dprs Why; has hot been introduced in America'.-., In .New'York, for ex-, arifiple^ irs alritiost a \clnch .that a one-ring show; of "this sort as. a r.egulair feature,, . with a, chihge of talent monthly as in the French- capital, could- be; made a.success, Tite talent could . get more , than some of the ridiculous salaries paid this show (which are cited, .where the. information is autheri:tlo), and , the scale of 16 to !21 fra,ricsT^B6: to> 84 cents-r-bould easily./be:.tilted to 1 flat'-and prove, profitable: .'. An ihdobir circus, is ohly knbWn in- America Whenever the ; miam- . ritioth shows play the MadisOn Square iGarden irii; New York or the various arihpries, indoor ' stadiums and arenas: in-the ismnd'ry metropo- lises. Here in Paris there Site three .such. Iriidoor cIrcuSes of which the Medrartos' (former clowns) is not the most pretentious. Apparently Medrano's Cirque Is a 'show" spPt for new talent. Sev- eral new acts, notably an .uncannily clever chlmpi "ButBu," Ixandled by a-Swedish master^ and getting the equivalent of .$5Q0. It's Wprth at least thrice that in. America, IhdOors or but, and" can be ballyhoped into a wow -variety or big-top attrac- tion 'wbrth up to $2,500. The act has-comedy, novelty, entertainment and not ' a little . iaient,: for a Simian. Chief novelty Is "BU-Bu's" juggilng ability,' wire-walking: and trapeze acrbbatlcs. A smash aerial act^ dping trapeze- to-trapeze quadrille gymnastics, la Leg 10 . Ralnat, Edrinond Ralnat, self-styled . creator of the. aerial quadrille, does not personally per- fOrmi He Is perched alof t With the band. His 10 charges,, aeven of. thehi men^ have a Maltese-cross network beneath thehfi. They , work in quadruple pairs, from four cpr- riers. The bther two wbmen. ire perched aloft doing .Pontrol and Iron-jaw specialties to the plug the waits. In' between the flying feats. There .Is but one femme flyer, and a itJip. The act Is . said to be "slioW-r Irig" for. the ridiculous figure of 40 bucks a day for the double qUintet. Any American showman or agent with vision arid authority hais a cPUple of cinph clicks In these tWo acts thus far mentioned. Clark- onlans, with BarnUm-Ringling, have also done the q'-'fidrille. Karriianow,.with a woman assist- ing, handles a dozen terriers. The wire-walking trick alone distin- guishes them for vaudeville, above the usual, canine act. A. comedy pooch, dbing side-twisters. Is- an- other npvelty." Karmanow manages to fppl about half the audience with a veiitrlloqulal "educated dog" bit, wherein the canine .supposedly counts (in French) up to 10. , Ernest Schumarin, veteran show- man, hiandled 18 liberty horsea rousingly. He gets 2,000 francs a day, plus fodder for his act,., which eoriies to $560 a Week and keeps. An extraordinary ■ equilibristic quartet, the Argos, can play -any- where...That powerfully built un- derstarider, an unusual physical specimen, is the backbone • of the act,^ The :;pyr.amld\ formations and .vanbufl three^hliph . stands 'are aa npvelly conceived . as they are unr. usualr' ' ■■: :l'alklng' clpwris are a Coriti'nerital institutlpn; - They gb- .to -exti-emes for a laugh., the sfihie as the: music hall artistes, Who are free-torigued arid smutty, but.pardoned generally; because: of the humorbus objective, lies arid Loj'ar seemed popular fa- vorites. / .Galroli, Porto and .Carletto, also talking Clowns,- got enoug;h returns to impress them -as. one ot the Cirque's, features, but the attendant 22 mlrtuteg' business was altogether too long. They wowed 'em, how- ever, with the musical finale, a clown Chat-lestoner stopping It cold with hi.s eccentricities. ' . , ==Mlle^Mamler^=eharivartH'-the=^16 LymoPre Girls (?)-, Llngton Sisters, contortionists, 2 F.abrinis, perch, and Les Xoldeys,- equilibrl.sts, rounded it out. . A great entertalriment, for 56 cents .^ind plenty of It. Lot 'em quit before midnight and the natives would rise in protest. When a Frenchman .tpends a nickel, hoW he wants his money'.«? worth! They'll be vewritirig those Scotch gag,s soon to fit this country. AVel. .