Word: lupino
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...although Mitzi's famous love song had given appropriate place to "Plant Roses in Memory's Garden", just another lyric, "Naughty Riquette" was at times as great entertainment as we ever want to see. And the reason for that may be summed up in the two words, Stanley Lupino...
...Lupino was at times so frightfully silly that we were very much afraid that we would be thrown out of the theatre for letting out that extra loud laugh of ours. Ever since childhood, we have heard British humor widely ridiculed in America, and ever since childhood we have gone into weak giggles over it. Either we violently disagree with our compatriots, or Americans have been kidding themselves all along as to the true nature of an Englishman's humor...
Wisely the emphasis is placed on melody. On the merits of this melody, comment is superfluous. On its delivery, compliment is due. Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...
...that three times after the opening he will invigorate the exercises with new material. The first of these invigorations is now on sale. The new ingredients are the Russian Lilliputians and Mitty and Tillio, French dancers; a pair of athletes called the Athenas; and new acts for Vivienne Segal, Lupino Lane, and minor revision in the monolog of Will Rogers...
...Lupino Lane and Ann Pennington in a sprightly Bimini dance, with the Tiller girls kicking higher than ever...