Word: lew
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Direct from nearly six months at the Shubert and Casino Theatres, New York, Lew Fields and "A Lonely Romeo "Company come to the Shubert Theatre (Boston), opening with a special Columbus Day matinee Monday, October...
True to its announcement, "Step This Way," now running at the Majestic Theatre, has again brought Lew Fields, his very self, to the Hub of the Universe. We should have been delighted with this years ago, and we may well be now, for a few years have done nothing to the power of this able comedian, and he appears as remarkably funny as ever. One secret of Lew Field's perennial success seems to be the fact that he always enjoys himself so much, and his merriment proves more than contagious...
...aimed higher than this production has. Its first failing is in a lack of support, for, with the exception of Sam Dody's dancing and the few songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often descends into rough-house which almost becomes vulgarity...
Good songs are included, especially a few modern ones, such as "If I Knock the L Out of Kelly" which Marguerite Farrell gets across; there is no other way to describe it. All in all, we are glad Lew Fields is in town, for if his co-workers are not up to snuff, he still is able to make us forget for a while that there are such things as wars and elections...
...Arnold Horween, of Chicago, Ill.; Frank Jewett Johnson, of Memphis, Tenn.; Robert Aian Lancaster, of Worcester; John Rippey Litchfield, of Brookline; Goodhue Livingston, Jr., of New York, N. Y.; Edward Sterling McKittrick, of St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Thorndike, of Boston; Lothario Motley Weld, of New York, N. Y.; Holyoke Lew, is Whitney, of Dedham; Thomas Smith Woods, of Boston; managers, Waldron Phoenix Helknap, Jr., of New York, N. Y. and Chase Mellen, Jr., of New York...