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...general impression has gotten about that Ed Wynn is quite a card. "Simple Simon," now at the Shubert, was evidently written for the sole purpose of allowing him to maintain that reputation, for the perfect fool is on the stage most of the time enlivening a rather preposterous musical comedy with bits of gay bandinage and sly drollery...
...Silent Witness is a mystery play which mystifies. In addition, it is well-staged, its scenes revolve quickly, and during the courtroom sequence there are moments of good oldtime melodrama. Unlike most of the recent Shubert importations, The Silent Witness has a plausible script, thanks to the doctorings of Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble...
...program will appear such numbers as the "Washington Post March" by the Banjo Club, "Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl" by the Vocal Club, Shubert's "March Militaire" by the Mandolin Club, popular selections by the Gold Coast Orchestra and as a specialty number, "Legerdemain" by W. S. Warner...
...born on Tenth Avenue, Manhattan, and her real name is Nancy La Hiff; she worked into show business by smart acting in amateur nights at vaudeville theatres. "Ducky," protested Mrs. La Hiff nightly, "is it necessary for you to kick your limbs so high in Mr. Shubert's shows?" Nancy Carroll continued to kick high. After three weeks in the chorus she was given a leading role. She made her way in Hollywood because she was intelligent. She is married to Playwright John Kirkland (Frankie & Johnnie) and has a four-year-old daughter. Few girls from Tenth Avenue have...
...interest of the juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults...