Word: mitzi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert--"Naughty Riquette", with Mitzi and Stanley Lupeiro...
Shubert--"Naughty Riquette," with Mitzi and Stanley Lupino...
Shubert--"Naughty Riquette", with Mitzi and Stanley Lupino at 8.00. The only difference between this show and "Naughty Cinderella" is that Riquette is picked up in a perfectly good telephone office and Stanley Lupino is one of the funniest men we have ever seen...
Burdened with a cold, with a tolerably dull score, and with a story modelled too closely on "Naughty Cinderella", Mitzi played gallantly along, unrewarded by the applause of former years. But 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...
...have a hard time in doing as well. Mr. Lupino is not of the wisecracking, smut-slinging school. All his laughs depend on sound principles of burlesque and a certain ridiculous irresponsibility that makes him seem at all times spontaneous. Possibly you may not sympathize as we do with Mitzi, but if you don't like Mr. Lupino we shall wait for you some night out by the Rotunda...