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Costume change.
Comic dialogue.
"Maybloom."
"Maybloom" is a trifle but John Hyams and Leila McIntyre make it an entertainment. No author is announced. Therefore Hyams may be suspect, in collusion with Miss McIntyre possibly. It is written in the Hyams style. Frank Stammers staged the comedy playlet, with Alexander Seden mentioned in caps as the musical director. Both principals were greeted upon their entrance at the Palace Monday evening. First came Mr. Hyams, stumbling into a dark room, supposed to be an artist's studio, and he impersonated the artist when Miss McIntyre arrived as an emergency model. During the flippant dialog, mostly on sharp crisp points, along the latest developed vaudeville idea of "comedy talk," twisting straight remarks into humorous retorts, a far distant relative of "punning," Mr. Hyams secured the impression Miss McIntyre retires to dress for the posing, with the costomary work by Hyams while waiting, he and the audience anticipating a "model scene" of the undraped, but when the young woman returned she was fully clothed in colonial style for "Maybloom," another painting that remained concealed up to that moment. Mr. Hyams is surprised, also delighted, and in proof of both, insists that they be married, after a song and dance, which should have brought him more fondness for Miss McIntyre than her clumsy dress. They exit arm in arm. The time of the turn seemed a bit lengthy. They can take it in a faster tempo with the same results; in fact, this couple can do almost anything they want to in vaudeville with the same results, for they are sure and fast favorites there.
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Variety, 53:6 (01/03/1919)