Show n n DA al Sa as Your Phyllis Phyll j ie Bt UR Y L Jlia Forth Fort as a a Provincial Star LONDON T ONDON Miss Phyllis Rankin of f U S A and The uThe Belle Bele of o New NewYork r w York is emulating the example ex f t Miss Edna May of ot The Belle Belie of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and U S o A She has bas just burst forth as the star or the near star of a new musical comedy cored called The Goy Gay GlY Ca Cadets jl and ad L Londoners traveled 11 miles ies to Birmingham to see her off eff 0 So you see e that the Gustave Gustavo Kerker and Post Pest Mortem I mean Rig Hugh I tt Morton have a good deal on their consciences After having l g launched launched Edna upon the troubled sea of alleged fame faie they are now compelled comp led to ad admit admi admit mit mi that if it been for foJ the perpetual Belle BeHe Miss Phyllis PhylIs would never have tried it It 0 0 0 Miss Rankin is a a very neat young person She was made by one song in The Belle Bete of or New York just as Miss Mss May achieved renown by Follow Folo b Me Met One song sog however has never yet made a prima donna and the thO th seven authors of The Gay Gas Cadets Cadet who jumped to the conclusion that because Iss Rankin Jn sang Ze American Girl sans she could plough her way success fully through the brambles of musical comedy were somewhat illogical In The uThe Gay Cadets At t the Prince of Vales Wales theatre theatre Birmingham poor Phyllis is 15 quite quie out of her depth likewise of her width and height As a acute acute acute cute little Egyptian girl she does not quite flU fill fl the bill bl To her credit be bo it said with wih the it i bill is distinctly not worth filling Better to empty empt and 0 have haye done doe As All in The uThe Toreador of which I have already told you at cubic cable bleat rate The uThe Gay Cadets has seven authors As far as s I could see half h lf an able ble bodied d author could have done far better than could seven seen gentlemen have hae managed ed to flo do 0 Such a dose of sponsors is bewildering but perhaps they feel feel safer in 11 a crowd a cro d The time has gone by when one poor little man can be called cled 0 out and teased with wih the tle Evidently a virulent Birmingham gallery galery and anda a Birmingham gallery galery is quite indescribable would hesitate at calling out seven seven gents and coping coping with wih them 0 Norman Prescott Prescott J Thomson Percy Greenhawk Harold Simpson Basil Basi DaVies Davie Charles Braun and Bernard Johnson did up The Th Gay Cadets Their ideas Idea of gayety differ front from mine But I suppose theirs was correct correct The views of seven distinct men must be of more weight than the mere mer of ot otone one That is why I hate these musical comedies te I dont mind disagreeing with one Pinero i single Henry Arthur Athur Jones or a solitary Grundy but when it i comes to setting q aside a bunch bunth a positive boquet of authors then I feel fOel f el timid Still St I 1 say to myself thyself Courage cour courage courage courage age Alan Dale Dalel Go out ut and fight em Be not dismayed The Gay Cadets is the most thing I have ever eyer met I should imagine that the seven authors met in conclave and that six six slept while one ae worked Perhaps they took it i in turns watching and waking Or perhaps as In the the childrens c game of Consequences one wrote a sen tence and covered it I up and the others oters added to it Irrelevantly and That That is the way wa The he Gay Cadets Cad ts struck me I can imagine them being locked up all ail al night like a jury unable to agree gree upon a verdict until at last In a spirit of desperation desp and a fervent yearning for breakfast they came to any old understanding and The Gay Cadets C 0 I cant ant tell teU you what poor Miss Rankins musical venture is all 01 about Some of it ii itIs is Egyptian and some some of it i In the Egyptian scene the chorus all n appear appeal jn in Birmingham versions of Cincinnati shoes and the effect is rath rather er incongruous Incon Miss Rankin has ha no opportunities to do anything dpn at all aU ex except except except be abnormally serious serl us and chant chant a aste song or so Everything Eve un unsuited Unsuited suited suied to her is put at her disposal 0 The Th sort of thing that t at made her popular in The Belle Belie is of course coure omitted That is Is natural but it i is rather sad especially when you ber her that it i the result of one one poor weak wak w ak mind but of seven The jokes In n the piece are all aU aimed at t the war office and are not particularly elaborate The pulls puIs a yard ard of pink tape from the pocket of the general gener l and says Ah h ha I see you belong to the war office This style of thing is considered very ver dashing and quite American AmericanA A grand first production of The Gay Cadets was announced That was w really realy the only joke of the thing The poor chorus girls appeared garbed in n rich blue calico carrying red umbrellas and Miss Rankin Bankin herself fould have been duplicated for anywhere an where 0 She was assisted by a couple of Letty Linds sisters those I suppose whom mother could best spare They The were Miss Adelaide Astor and Miss Ator Lydia Miss Astor really sounds much nicer than Miss but she look it i Any girl who from a city directory can select the name of for stage use deserves a mention menton I used to think tink that the late clever woman in New York 0 who called her self sel Grubb was plucky enough But Letty Linds sister r seems to be equally audacious 0 0 Miss Rankins Rankine glory glor was not dimmed by the te Misses Astor Ator and They rhey danced a i bit bi and sang squeakily with wih a gentleman named Wright dis guised in a kilt k lt I i will do Miss lIss Phyllis the justice to say that she ane was most meek and She was absolutely lowly in her behavior She even en see the th center of the stage Perhaps s e it worth having having in this particular case if so I agree agee er A 4 position at the side or even right at the back out of sight would be preferable Whether the new ne offering will ever eer reach ondon London remains e to be seen seen With The Silver Slipper SUpper and wI Tile The Toreador and The uThe Girl from Up There Tere and something new promised by b George Ed I Tam Iam am afraid that The Gay Cadets Cadet wi will stand a a very bad chance Such gayety ga Yi ij not gJ for not that it i is very v ry different in call cali lure re from rom The Girl from rm Up There Theren but the Edna May production prOd ion is at a t cal any a rate well ivell wel mounted Now that Edna May Ma of The Belle of New York and U S A and Phyl hyl lis ha is Rankin of U S A and uTh The Belle of New York have left their happy homes lomes away from f oo I should advise New York managers to look out Miss Virginia Virgnia Earle is here and she may also be b tempted We shall have hae to invent ilent new lew ones or else emigrate in order to tc be near our dear ear ones Lon don is so populous that thaC Miss Earle will wil surely find nine or ten authors Ln to dash off of a a little comedy for her herI 0 If I seven men wrote rote The uThe Gay Cadets for Phyllis how many men would it take to be equally lugubrious for Virginia And if so why h mati r so State ate your reasons briefly ALAN DALE |