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"Dangerous Dan McGrew."
Dangerous Dan McGrew and the lady they call Lou have been given a lot of publicity on the vaudeville stage. Some one wrote a poem about them. Perhaps they have been in pictures. The furious increase in everything perishable may be responsible for this latest Ardath act. There is no slapstick in it, maybe some but not much. A couple of the principals kick a couple of the other principals, but what's a little kick to Ardath? You will miss the paste pail and brush, and the whiskers covered with slime. And you will probably miss "Dangerous
.Dan" as a travesty even on the small time, for the small time isn't paying nine people nowadays for doing nothing although the big time might, you can never tell what the big time may do. Though the big time won't play "Dangerous Dan." Whoever wrote the piece wrote it like an amateur and whoever staged it, staged it the same way. When the act runs out of travesty it sings ballads, and there's a ballad singer who closes the turn, with everything in it unfinished. There are six men and three women, including lady Lou in the playlet, a special setting and Dan McGrew himself, made up like a Frank Keenan gambler. Mr.
Ardath had better stick to the sticky stuff. Even the 5th Avenue audience, the softest this side of the Warwick, Brooklyn, didn't make enough noise over the McGrew thing to let the management know they bad remained awake through it. There is a roulette wheel on the stage and some gambling. The fellow who came in to break Dan's bank had $110 to do it with, but that may be a part of the travesty. The other part is that Ardath, with his
knowledge of vaudeville, should have ever wasted his time and people with this one.
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Variety, 54:3 (03/14/1919)