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Distinct novelties. Dan Coleman, Irish comedian, plays Horatio McNally. Coleman impersonates a female as Patricia O’Brien. Phil Peters plays a German for comedy, possessing the dialect and facial expression indicative of the character. Sheridan wears handsome gowns that complement her figure. She also acts in addition to her singing. Alma Bauer also participates in these skits. Illuminated trolley car, five huge inverted champagne bottles and a larger one in the background. A beehive with a device showing the inside.
Eileen Sheridan sings. Palmer Hines and Hazel Lorraine perform talk comedy with the former as the straight and the latter as the comic. Chorus girls.
"Big Show" and "Tulip and Rose."
Among the distinctive features that completely removed this production from the ordinary are an illuminated trolley car which is erected on the stage by the chorus girls in view of the audience; a sextet introducing burlesque talking moving pictures; the finale of the act first which discloses five huge inverted champagne bottles from which the wine is flowing, and an immense bottle in the background emitting a torrent of the sparkling liquid with the chorus girls in union suits grouped around. In the second act a bee-hive is seen with a clever device that shows a swarm of flying insects. This effect is successfully utilized by Coleman upon whom the bees alight, creating an exceedingly humorous situation. In Miss Sheridan's song specialty the stage is darkened while she renders the "Tulip and Rose" melody, and countless fireflies sparkle everywhere with nothing else in sight. These and other ingenious devices lend novelty to the production and bring it up to a standard that justifies classification among the most pretentious achievements of high-class musical comedy producers.
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Variety, 37:7 (01/16/1915)