Word: skit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sybil Vane, the Welsh prime donna, scores a hit with her four songs, one in Italian and three in English. She possesses an excellent soprane voice with considerable range to it, and receives much applause. Charles O'Donnell and Ethel Blair are uproariously funny in a comedy skit called "The Piano Mover"; the act is new and all their stunts are well-executed Gertrude Vanderbilt, "the only Vanderbilt on the stage" has a song and dance number that is as fresh as a sea breeze; with her catchy songs, jokes and personality she proves a great favorite. Others...
Miss Margaret Young, "versatile comedienne," was perhaps the most enthusiastically greeted and her captivating manner and clever songs brought down the house. Hermine Shone offers a bright musical skit of the Emerald Isle which was interesting and sparkled with vivacious musical numbers...
...Under the Apple Tree," a lively musical skit with John Sully, Ethel Rosevere, Carl Byal and Muriel Thomas in the leading roles, is receiving an enthusiastic welcome which is well deserved, at Keith's this week. The costuming is elaborate, several of the tunes extremely catchy, and the chorus of eight very attractive--far more so than many that appear in the usual musical comedy or "revue." The acting and dancing of Mr. Sully is especially commendable, and the whole performance moves with vivacious rapidity...
Other contributors to the bill are Eddie Borden, in a humorous hodge-podge of jokes and jazz music; Grace Huff, in a one-act playlet entitled "Just Like a Man,' and Charles Bensee and Florence Baird in a laughable little skit, "Songlflage." Frankie Wilson is also seen in an unusual series of "mirage" posings while Burt Gordon and Fone Ford entertain in a "Recital Classique...
There are eight other features in the bill, the best of which is a singing act, "The Little Production in One," by Bill Bailey, Lynn Cohen and Estelle Davis. William Hallen and Ethel Hunter in a sparkling skit, "Just For Fun," and Frank Wilcox and company in "Sah-h," are among the other on entertainers...