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Three other reasons for the advised seats are the Alexander Sisters, whose tap and Apache dancing is distinctly good. Personality walks onto the stage in Fred Lightner, and after a few moments exposure walks off again, when the magician's act begins...
...good-looking but not particularly talented young woman named Nancy Welford. Inevitably the feeble gaiety intended in the reversal of the first situation, with the rescuing guardian succumbing to the showgirl, is smothered by the constant singing, by the manipulation of ballets in bright, blurry costumes, by Winnie Lightner's noisy wisecracks...
Puppets. Frances Lightner has concocted a ragged play about rag dolls, human and otherwise. Into a rather unusual setting of a marionette theater on Mulberry Street, Manhattan, the playwright plucks somewhat forcibly at a snatch of the Pagliacci motif...
...sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor. But Winnie Lightner, abetted by the insouciant Will Mahoney and the boisterous Patricola, carries them along by dint of magnet ic personality, sometimes called high animal spirits. And the revue contains two of the best travesties on darky melodies ever perpetrated...
...jazz bands and "syncopation", neither better nor worse than usual; a trained dog which performs his act with simplicity and sincerity--rather unusual in a dog; and a race track skit of more than average amusiveness. There is also a rather elaborate musical comedy in one act, featuring Winnie Lightner and Company, which contains some comical patter, two or three excellent songs, and a brief but unusually artistic dance by Ramona...