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...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...
...full measure there is a skit, "Aix and Pains", well worth reprinting from the American Field Service Bulletin, and the usual quota of editorials and announcements...
...stories are rather too much in the note of the Saturday Evening Post, where a broader development of Biggers's "Next to Advertising" would be a feature. It is an amusing skit drawn with brilliant chalks. H. E. Porter's "Same Old Christmas Story" is the same old Christmas story. Noble graduate of 1907, with a bank account, a tender heart and too much leisure. It reads like that story of Bunner's, where the brave little boy sells the gold brick to a kind old gentleman, and thus provides a Christmas for the family of the unsuccessful bunco steerer...