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Features Frank
Manning, Joe Dixon, Ben Neff and H. K.
Morton. Manning and Dixon, as
Hebrew and German, are indifferently
skillful comedians in the pieces, but in
the olio they scored the hit of the evening
with Matthews and Ashley's old skit "A
Smash-Up in Chinatown." Alice Cheslyn leads four of the five numbers
in the first part, besides doing a
singing act in the olio and holding down
a principal part in the burlesque. On
the other hand, Gyde Darrow has almost
nothing to do in the first part, does not
appear in the olio at all, and puts all her
work Into the latter half of the burlesque. Flo
Elliot also came forward in tights at the
finale looking particularly well by the
burlesque standard, but her attempts to
read lines were not conspicuously successful. Zela De
Marr did a slow step during the number
"My Abyssinian Maid," which she led
very nicely, and Lillian Wright and two
boys gave an interesting hard shoe dancing
act in the olio, but that was all. Of the minor women, May Temple did
a "slavey" that brought her unusual distinction
for a part of the sort. The California Trio (two women and
a man) do very nicely. Elliott and Neff
have a medley, ringing in half a hundred
popular songs in an exchange of dialogue.
The house seemed to like this.
Source:
Variety 12:4 (10/03/1908)