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...programs, including semi-serious divertissements. Roxy's Gang and its radio fame date from the days when he managed the Capitol Theatre. Its success is based on the familiar, back-slapping way in which Roxy masters ceremonies. In his tense, high-pitched New-Yorkese he makes every skit seem a bargain. Typical Roxy introduction: "Hello Everybody! Now you're going to hear the greatest little girl. . . ." The "greatest little girl" in Roxy's present gang is Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 69, who will perform twice daily throughout the tour...
...between the serious affairs that transpire above, the wildest farce is enacted on "The Floor Below." There a baroque, gold-turbaned widow (Lilian Braithwaite) with an Elinor Glynt in her eye, is trying to keep her daughter from getting married pending her own nuptials. The substance of this vaudeville skit is slim but Playwright Novello patiently works over it until, like the breakfast bacon & eggs, both tales come out about even. A good deal of the action in the Kennard flat upstairs is valid and affecting, in spite of its antiquated situation. And some of the comedy in the flat...
Wrote Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps of Yale University, A.B., Ph.D., A.M., Litt.D., in the course of a skit on what life will be like in 2030, contributed to the New York World's funny column...
...stage show is perhaps a bit above the State average and includes at least one skit which is bound to amuse...
...Black-out: a skit ending with a sudden extinguishing of all lights on the stage...