Fred Irwin

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"the Majestics" There are eight chorus men in the company of forty-eight or so. Chorus men, too, who act like human beings, sing as well as an average male quartet and dress like the Broadway musical comedy kind. Acts include "Americans in Paris", "I'm Thirsty All the Time", "Fitz in the Evening Dress". Principles included Joe and Edith Hollander, Marie Hartman, Roy Cummings, Edith Shaw, Anna Meek, Ernest and Clara Rackett, Miss Faye, The Peerless Quartet. Evelyn Walker did extremely well in the same act, singing "The Best of Friends Must Part".
The proceedings at no time become oppressively polite, the aim seemingly being to keep up a swift pace of alternating comedy "bits," brilliant numbers and stage pictures and picturesque incidents. There is not a jarring note in the big chorus effects, and the finale was a revelation in ensemble singing.
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Variety 13:9(02/06/1909)