Word: mitzi
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...serve the nectar, and then to take the good taste away let us all have a good swig of Sloan's Liniment. For such is the method of attack, when dealing with a piece such as "The Madcap". The nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality across. She knows...
...this play she takes the part of a girl, of 20, who has to pretend she is but 12 in order to facilitate her mother's snaring a British millionaire. In the impersonation of the child, there are considerable possibilities, and Mitzi realizes them. The result produces a considerable number of real laughs...
...there you have it. If you think you can be amused (which we were) by Mitzi's impersonation of a little girl injected with a few good cracks, an evening at the Shubert will repay you. If you are a Scollay Square aesthete, or a devotee of Max Reinhardt, you will probably be more contented at home...
Naughty Riquette. Into some nonsense about a naughty Parisian telephone operator who proves in Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers...
Shubert--"Naughty Riquette," with Mitzi and Stanley Lupeiro...