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Show I ' ' ' Raymond Hitchcock to Appear Ap-pear at Orpheum Wednesday Wednes-day in Own Play Raymond Hitchcock und his new Bhow, "Hitchy Koo 1919," will draw tho crowds to the Orpheum Wednesday, Wednes-day, April 14. He will, as usual, be surrounded by a group of entertainers entertain-ers this time the number runs into threo figures and the much talked of chorus of "forty undor twenty." Among tho long list of principals are Duncan Sisters, RJta Dane, Ruth Mitchell, Florence O'Denishawn, Savoy Sa-voy and Brennan, George Mooro, Joseph Jos-eph Vook, Princess While Deor, Eleanor Elea-nor Sinclair, Mildred Keats, Charles Weltzell, Mark Sullivan, Chief Eaglo Horse, Maurice Black, Ursula O'Hara, Josephine MacNlcoll, Blaine Palmer, Lucille Ager, Chief Os-Ko-Mon and two score of others widely known and variously va-riously important in tho big new shovy. The sixteen scenes were designed and painted by Joseph Urban, Robert Law and Carmono Vltole, Georgo V. Hobart supplied tho book and Colo Porter tho lyrics and music. A. E. Erlanger, C. Blllingham and Florence Zeigfeld, Jr., are concerned with Hitchcock in the ownership of tho show. The now "Hitchy Koo 1919" has been the most effective of the series of Hitchy Koos. Beautiful as the now show Is in its lavish Btngo decorations, charming dressing, dancing and girls, laughing incidents and cheering music, it is tho personality of "Hitchy" himself that gives It popular vogue. From beginning begin-ning to end he moves in and out of the scenes and never lets the high stepping pitch of the periormance drop in tho slightest degree. "My aim last season," said Hitchcock recently, "was tc havo a chorus of forty under twenty, twen-ty, tho age of zest and relish. "and now, in my 1919 show, 1 havo fully sixty who may come under this heading, "there isn't a raspberry among thcl bunch." Seats now on- sale. |