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Loew's State--Marie Dressler is "Caught Short...
Probably Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...
...Bullard '24, who are assisted by six chorus men, at a benefit performance at the Casino Theatre, New York City, on Sunday evening on the way to Baltimore. On the same bill will be such prominent musical comedy stars as Frank Tinney, Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, Larry Dressler, and Jane Cowl. The program of the evening will consist of a number of specialties and vaudeville acts. The proceeds of the performance will be given to the Boy Scouts of America who are now campaigning for funds...
...World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small talk entitled "Out Front." Marie Dressler is amusing as always, but the real comedian of the show is Al Brendel, who, as Yonson the Swede, is vastly entertaining. Every time he appeared on the stage, it was a signal for merriment on the part of the audience; one scene in particular, in which every article of apparel...
...Marie Dressler will be seen at the Opera House, in the hilarious farce, "Tillie's Nightmare." The rough-and-ready clowneries of this comedy have been seen in nearly every city but Boston in the past season...