Word: shutta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...role is that of a dawdling cook, left behind in France after the armistice, who is bagged as the 14th guest at a gold-plate dinner of superstitious, rich Americans. He disrupts the party, in accepted operetta vein, with goofy behavior. Eventually he performs a rowdy dance with Ethel Shutta, the latter seeming, in looks and behavior, to be Nora Bayes stretched to the nth degree...
...contributory laughter. Miss Hines is as gracefully attractive as ever, though it was remarked in the audience that she had lost control entirely of her left shoulder. Then there was Roy Royston playing the famed actor with a distinct Cockney accent. And an amusing little tough child by Ethel Shutta. Probably not very much will be written about the music a hundred years from now, yet it sufficed for all those lacking too precise a memory. Laughs were distributed in favorable quantities and the dancers agitated happily. Casting up accounts, the visitor will find that he has received well above...