| Show iTHE THE NEW PLAYS PLA YS 1 I S FOLLIES OF OP 1912 DULLEST OF OP THE THI SERIES BT BY CHARLES DARNTON EW YORK Nov No 2 While t It may maybe NEW be true that a age e cannot wither nor J tobacco moko stale talo the tho variety shows given by the perennial under tho the general head heas of or Follies It Is equally truo true that the tho present series of ot 1912 15 is bound to suffer sutter by comparison r with other enterprises of ot a similar nal nature na na- na- na l' l lure ture that have marked the tho passing of ot L' L tho the years The Tho ho ugly truth tho bald fact tact or whatever whatever what what- ever you choose to call It Is that tl tho the i 1 latest Follies 1 committed In the tho name namo of ot tho the Moulin Rou Rouge e at tho the Now New York theatre as seen Been here liere tho the first nl night ht must Go down Into Broadways Broadway's highly colored history history as aJ the worst of ot the lot This hint morally speaking speaking far tar far from It The least anyone can do with a a. HenSe of or Immor liu- liu mor mor Is to try to make It fit tit the occasion occa occa- sion Sometimes Sometimes- this is not only hard but Impossible After Arter a R. rather live lively beginning Follies of ot 1912 but surely he became came thc the dullest of oC the series aeries Except for tOl Bert Williams L thero there was little to laugh at an and even that dark hued comedian dl didn't nt get alom ahong ver very well until ho he found a a. better bettor vehicle for his humor than an ancient cab with one of ot those familiar knock knock- kneed horses that have hn been traveling tra the tho road of or pantomime for tor countless s greatest difficulty had evl- evl d been to find a n new sin Tho old M one olio p pf legged bare chorus women was wast t- t gain again paraded In all Its indecency w There hero Is 18 no need to mince words in dealIng deal deal- Ing with this evil n of oC tho the stage It has R a 4 r lo low long since found Its Ita way from Crom the Zie- Zie If shows to other exhibitions At the thes s the tho of oC the Winter Garden It runs length footlights Even so called musical com com- t t ha have va gone a as far tal as ns th they y dared logo to lo togo togo go In iii this thI Where here II is It going IA to stop or when I 1 someone Going to top stop It That's tho the question that tho the proper authority t hould answer with m decisive action Even Paris from rom which 1 Now r-ow York took Us its cue a year ear or two i. i ago ngo has haa grown sick of or Its Indecency ft and md from Crom nil aU accounts that come across ri J 4 the water has correct kl the tha error of Its J Jf f WILLIAMS AlS U nays nas It would be a er very simple matter matler to put tights tight at least on the tho legs of ot 5 women who display themselves upon the rtha New Nei York stage I Last ast night a girl with bare legs s appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap I In a street scene Here there I was no excuse so for such exposure For I that matter It Is not easy to find one for COl forthe the thc more brazen scene at Atlantic City since Mace at that resort last summer the tho law fr put ut stockings on maidens who made their way to the beach Oddly enough h it seems that on the stage In New Z York anything goes But only Bert Williams really went for tor anything last night In talking to music he brought out In his first song pong on I tho the difficulty of ot playing a R. hound bleed in an Uncle Tom show and then called attention to 10 the high cost of ot living JIvIng in a ditty dedicated to the tho landlady who brought tears to hi hla voice It was wa enough for tor him to say Youre on tho the right road sister but youre you're gem the I LILLIAN LORRAINE wrong wn way Even politics saddened him To hiu a possible simp simply meant that In the end he would be ac accused used of or opening postal cards One Ono of or these days this born comedian may I open his mail mall and find a better part than tho the one ono gl Given cn him by Harry B. B Smith The words by H. H B B. B Smith especially especial especial- I ly h when they dealt with the tho political situation coul couldn't nt have o been sadder If the tho doctor had forbidden Mr Smith to tomake make male campaign speeches The elephant the donkey donke and the tho bull bun moose were dutifully trotted out but they didn't havo a humorous leg leg- to stand standon on Tho The music by na Raymond mond Hubbell went in one ono ear and out the other Miss Lillian Lorraine warbled outside a vine-clad vine cottage what what could have havo beon been more moro ap appropriate ap- ap and and wore a suffragist costume costume costume cos cos- tume that Isn't at all likely to help the cause Miss 1158 Ida Adams also gave her voice an airing After talking like liko a cinematograph she he sang bang like a bra graph ph Bernard Dernard Granville sang upon tho the slightest provocation When hen you rou stopped to wonder what was coming next it was Bernard Granville Gran At first he carried cigars cig-ars and in Sn the tho aisle Other performers made themselves part of ot the theu audience u lence in that intimate way that brings Broadway close to art Harry Watson Vatson Jr tried to get ret out of ot an upper box and go to Miners Afterward when ho he engaged aged with Leon Erroll In I comedy that suggested sugg-ested a cheap burlesque burlesque burlesque bur bur- lesque show wo we realized that he was Inthe in inthe inthe the wrong place There was no indication that Julian Mitchell Itchen had staged tho the piece under tho the inspiration of new now ideas A circus tent at tho the end was the tho only approach t to no novelty This scene had at least the charm of or nimble dainty circus riders who vho carried ot off tho the beauty honors of the tho performance Tho They were a relief to tired eyes The beauties who revealed themselves in a palace were funny without knowing it it H. They all looked as ns though they thoy had bad come como straight from a n. beauty parlor that kept a strange record of ot Indies ladles who had mado made themselves historical or hysterical Joan of ot Arc Are for tor forone forone torono one ono was a a- suppressed scream Greek statuary was as not forgotten In a Venus Vonus with a wl wiggle gle The bunch was brought into view b by a girl harlequin In an work open-work union suit As you OU ma may imagine the Follies became largely largel I at a matter of oC view IN THE THIEF AT A T THE COLONIAL 4 W lf W p 1 x j t zif v t CATHRINE COUNTISS Who ho appears at the tho Colonial in Tho The Thief I t fr 4 kt 4 44 4 1 r I- I w 1 4 ti 1 WILFRED ROGERS The leading man at the Colonial |
