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Harpers for October contains a strange little skit on the magic arts of the Bushnegroes in Dutch Guiana by John W. Vandercook, actor, editorial writer, and Yale man. The editors of the magazine, in introducing Mr. Vandercook, retail from his confidential confessions a sentence which is more significant than anything in the article itself. One year at Yale, it seems, was all Mr. Vandercook could stand. Unfortunately the details of that year are not given. Perhaps in the interest of truth and the unsuspecting youth of America, Mr. Vandercook is reserving them for another article. But at least a certain...
Similarly in the theatrical world the Garrick Gaieties, a review given by the younger players of the Theater Guild, deleted a skit in which one Philip Loel ably impersonated Mr. Bryan...
...Williams; the "Palette" scene, in which the Hoffman girls emerge, one by one, from a paint box, disguised as pastel crayons; "Cellini's Dream," difficult to describe. All these are transcended by the most colossal exploitation of the Mammy song ever attempted on the U. S. stage, a skit entitled "Mothers of the World." gentle matrons, in a series of cloistered niches, touched with a dim, a holy light, sing their infants asleep, while above their heads the prima donna, attired as a cherub, leads a choir of angels...
...however, he was taking juvenile parts. A British critic hailed him as a "baby wonder." A year later he was playing with William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes. He got a part in a vaudeville skit, A Night in an English Music Hall, toured the U.S. In 1914 the Keystone Film Corporation enlisted his services for $40 a week...
...Passing Show of 1924", now playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...