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85 Mins. (Special Settings). “The New Sunnyside.” Max Bloom has taken his old vehicle known as “The Sunnyside of Broadway,” added new scenery, new people, new costumes and has made of it a neat, swift and comical little musical comedy. It is a corking good laughing show, with not a dull minute. It has variety also, in good dancing numbers. There is not much plot to the show, but there is so much liveliness and loveliness displayed that this is not a handicap. Mr. Bloom, seen in a Hebraic character, carries the burden of the comedy although George Browning and Louis Swan, who get into the semblance of a horse and cavort over the stage in a ludicrous manner, get a smother of laughs early. Alice Sherr does some effective work and is at her best in a sensational dance near the close, assisted by George Browing. She wears a smashing creation consisting of red tights, a black gauze gown with a sort of tunic of spangles. Inez Belaire, a Chicago young woman, appears here and there and adds a very nice specialty in a whistling number. The show is almost one continuous laugh, closing with burlesques on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the old fashioned war drama which are distinguished by some very good pieces of business in the way of travesty.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.12, November 21, 1914