Type:
In the number
which Miss Brennan leads, "I'd Like to
Have Some Light on That," the show girls
stand over a lighting device which gives
a pretty effect, showing their lower extremities
through their skirts. Dave Ferguson's
number, "Models of Days Gone
By," introduces the picture frame idea
with good result.
Produced by Dave Ferguson, Abe Reynolds and
John C. Hart. Songs include the "Spanish Song," led by Hazel
Grant. S. M. Cooley has written what is programed
as a two-act "operaganza." Every
word of humor which the book possesses
is brought out to the last laugh by Ferguson,
Reynolds and Hart. Abe Revnolds has created a Hebrew character
and not a vulgar lampoon. His
'•Jew*' is the keen-witted, clean and wholesome
man; not the repugnant and repelling
creature which blossom in burlesque
soil with all too much profusion. John C. Hart presents a "dope" ideally. Bissett and O'Brien, two fine looking,
dapper young men, put over dancing
which took the house by storm. Lilla Brennan and Hazel Grant are the
only women in the show who can be dignified
as "principals."
Give "Miss New York, Jr." credit for one
great and glorious burlesque virtue: there
is not a vulgar line or situation, not a
word or move of suggestiveness from end
to end and there is not a nod or wink
to which the most fastidious could object.
It is perfectly "clean."
Source:
Variety 16:3 (09/25/1909)