“Girls From Happyland”

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The "Happyland" show is "presented" to the public by Joe and Lou Hurtig. Songs include "The Gay Modiste," "The Man From Tiffany," "Down in Lovers' Lane," "Pansy, My Honey Bee," "Yiddish Cowboy" and "Nova Rosa." Features Loretta LeRoy, Mabel Leslie, Florence Belmont, Nellie Weston, Kohler, and Margie Austin. There's another chorister from the mixed collection of twelve or fourteen who steps out of the line to take up a "part," Fannie Brice as a maid. Fannie at least looks good. For assistants Watson has Harry Kohler, Chas. Brown and Hal Hoyt, the latter two making one-half of the Monarch Comedy Four, a quartet of male singers, with ordinary voices but plenty of rough-house comedy which appeals as funny to the gallery.
"The Girls from Happyland" without Billy W. Watson would be just the "Girls" without the "Happy." Watson is the whole show.
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Variety 13:3 (12/26/1908)