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While Miss Ethel Hall sang “Honey Love” she wore an extremely becoming short gown, even if a hole did show in the seam of her silk stocking on the right leg.
Jack Perry is the chief comedian and producer of Butler, Jacobs, Lowry & Moynhan's "The Cherry Blossoms." The act has sixteen neat-looking and willing chorus girls. A couple of the girls have speaking lines including Alice Hayes and Marie O'Dental. The best number was George Payne's Indian number. Despite the fact that Payne did not look at the audience, the girls made this number what it was, bringing encores. The burlesque starts with Harry Thorne's "An Uptown Flat" and he runs for about fifty minutes. The story is broken up with snappy songs that should have snappy work them. Perry and Frank Dobson both act in the opener. Next, Perry performed in his "City of Booze" song. The song is lyrically strong. Ethel Hall performed in the olio, "Go Home and Tel Your Mother," with Perry. She displayed her dance-kicking prowess, perhaps a bit too intensely. Dobson also performed in the olio in "white face." His numbers include "Tum te Tum" and "Billy." Loro and Payne also do a comedy acrobatic turn with a special setting. The comedian works in "black face," securing plenty of laughs. De Grace and De Paul close the olio with music and songs.
Although the burlesque closes in a cheaply drawn "red-fire" finale, the whole thing leaves a pleasant impression, not erased by the olio either. Perry is responsible; either he has not had sufficient time or he did the job carelessly. There is really nothing to the comedy, characters or songs. Even the setting is plain, making the plain dressing of the chorus girls look plainer. The entire show is clean except for perhaps a few swear words and Perry's familiarity with women (which may only been because he was at the Eighth Avenue). The show deserves all the credit possible for keeping as clean as it did. Perry is lost as the henpecked husband but took what honor he could with his role as an Irishman. Ethel Hall and Lillian Perry made the mistake of singing "After the Honeymoon," although they did well with "Mysterious Rag." The show would pass for an evening. It is not going to be the best show on the Western Wheel, but it will be far from the worst.
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Variety 23:13 (09/02/1911)