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Eddie Foy is the black-face-typed
feature. Also featuring Mabelle Baker as Mrs. Barnaby Bustle, Oscar Ragland as Jonathan Cheatam, and George Schiller. Other acts performed "Wayburn Steps", Harry Madison performed "An Adirondack Guide", "The Hornpipe Rag" lead by Laura Guerite, "That's as Far as You Can Go,"
sung by Daphne Pollard and John H.
Pratt, "In a Summer Hotel" and
"Wont You Harmonise with Me!" died
one by one, but the encores were faithfully
given. This was repeated in "The
Dusky Salome" rendered by Maude Raymond, In "Everything Depends
on Money," Mr. Foy has a corking, catchy
number, and the strains when heard often
after in connection with his movements,
became better liked each time. "When
I Was a Kid Like You," sung by Mr. Foy
with the fifteen tiny tots grouped about
him, made one of the solid hits, and was
handled by Foy in an exceptionally capable
and clever style. "None of Them's
Got Anything On Me" is retained by Foy
as the single interpolated number. Ben
M. Jerome wrote all the other music.
With those mentioned as catchy, and
"Under the Honeymoon" Mr. Jerome (who
leads the orchestra) has cause to be proud
of his product. Miss Pollard and Mr. Pratt, the latter
an enjoyable baritone Miss
Pollard has a solo "A Poor Girl Like Me"
way down on the program.
Earlier, Miss
Raymond, as Molly Brown in an inconspicuous
role, sang 'XJood Bye, MJolly
Brown," in which her dialect character
interpretations were bunched together.
Miss Raymond's best was her "Ophelia"
in the travesty on "Hamlet," where Foy
really looked "The Melancholy Dane" he
played, having a parodied "Soliloquy"
that may have been written for a professional
matinee, but not for the public at
large. The "Hamlet" bit was brief, but
amusing.
The costumes
are far prettier than the girls inside them.
This contingent of Casino femininity is
surely the limit for homeliness in bulk.
The absence of good looks extends to all
pArts of the chorus, even unto the fifteen
kiddies, one of the most enjoyable portions,
and to the "Ned Wayburn Girls,"
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Variety 13:6(01/16/1909)