Word: markert
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group of Russel Markert dancers and a burlesque called the Russian Chloral Society, the events are reminiscent of a bad afternoon at Keith's. Jimmy Carr's expert dance band is in the pit, but unfortunately it renders one of those painful "collegiate" satire songs which is the revenge of saxophone players who could...
...Russell Markert's chorus from "Just A Minute" was there, with a tall Gael in the middle dominating matters of selection. And the runner-up to Will Fyffe was the farce of Arthur and Morton Havel, who also took to the two-a-day when New York was unmoved by "Anything Your Heart Desires". There are tumblers, Arab being this week's nationality, and there is a ventriloquist seal that limitates a lamb, a horse and a bee. The seal also blows out Dunhill lighters, which proves that there's so much good in the worst of us it hardly...