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...same show Lou Holtz, who is given some exceptionally clever lines, seems lacking in it?in a house filled with memories of the triumphs of Jolson. Marie Dressier, on the other hand, has personality in every square foot...
...International Prohibition. Peggy O'Neil's next London-and-Paris appearance should be used to spread the gospel of Monroe. And when Henry Ford again visits a war-mad Europe, his mission should include not Jane Addams and David Starr Jordan, but Maude Adams, Frances Starr, and Al Jolson. The true purpose of art has been revealed...
...Miss Virginia Tanner. Miss Tanner last year coached the ballot, but this year will have charge of the entire production. The music will be conducted by Mr. Louis Silvers, the composer of "April Showers" and "Just Snap Your Fingers at Care", who is at present conducting "Bombo" at A1 Jolson's Theatre in New York...
...visions of a knickerbockered in- fant prodigy. But any such fears were dispelled at his appearance. Mr. Price is young, to be sure, but only as young as most musical comedy stars are made up to be. His offering is a number of clever imitations of Broadway stars--Jolson, Leonard, Foy--and any one else that the audience asked for. He has a pleasant personality, a trifle too much Broadway perhaps, but his enthusiasm makes up for that and he "gets away big". Finally two acrobats--"Gymnastic finesse a la Femme--performs feats that would be difficult for "Gymnasts...
Billy Glason, who gives some songs and jokes of the Al Jolson type, was enthusiastically received. Other entertainers are Tozart in an original act as "The Vagabond Artist," Maryan Vochi, who does some skillful too-dancing, Aleen Bronson, in a clever school-girl part, Hobson and Beatty, Finlay and Hill, and Mile, La Toy's canine models...