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Metropolitan -- "Honky-Tonk". Sophie Tucker in person. Beginning Thursday--"Fast Life" with Douglas Fairbanks...
...Honky Tonk (Warner). Alone on a vaudeville stage with a piano, Sophie Tucker is impressive. Although she sings with all the traditional embellishments of the three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young...
...time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow...
Never mind whether it "may be compared in finish with the best of the Broadway productions"--it may not. It is a Pudding show, obliged at times to stick inside the limitations of the current ritual of honky-tonk, but for the most part fresh as no Broadway show will ever be, inspired, perspiring, untiring, and at times downright comical. At no time will it be mistaken for a page from Hans Christia nor John Murray Anderson; there are, however, moments in it when the mournful editors of Punch and Life would wish to God they had thought of that...
...result of a report last night that a revolt has broken out in the state of Tonk, India, Professor E. A. Horne stated in a special interview to a CRIMSON reporter, that except for the fact that it showed the unrest which is prevalent throughout India it was of small consequence, since Tonk is a native state in whose internal affairs the British Government of India takes no hand. If the revolt gets beyond the control of the native authorities, however, the government will intervene. Nevertheless, the entire country is in a state in which a serious revolution may break...