Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-10-29 | Page 14 | Bert Williams' Old Partner Coming to Orpheum

Bert Williams Williams' Old Partner Coming To Orph Orpheum Urr A long way up that old ladder of fame Bert nert Williams and 1 J. J Rosamond Johnson climbed side by sloe side and made rung g by rung together g Today d gk everybody b k knows Bert Williams and today everybody knows J J. J Rosamond Johnson But not so ver very long iong ago these two celebrated comedians both headed large companies of colored entertainers entertainers entertainers en en- and were known to the then the public as Williams and Walker and Cole and anji Johnson Johnson who is at af the Orpheum next week had a little the best of It it because because be be- cause causa not only could he sing a song long but he ho also had the gift of writing writing- songs that not only he himself could sing but almost everybody else in the world sung whether whether- or not he be could sing Johnson has written hundreds of ot songs but among his best known compositions com com- positions are Under the Bamboo Tree Congo L ve Song Lazy Moon Maiden With time the s Castie Cas I tie lie on the Nile Since You Went Away Gal O 0 Didn't lila namI Ram Ham I I ble bIt and others Johnson like e everybody who does anything of exceptional entertainment value ha has come to vaudeville Here with his hia inimitable five he Is off offerIng offering offer offer- ring r- r ing a new act that he calls caBs Syncopation tion lion It is a sort of jazz Ja jag a Jubilant jubilant jubilant lant joyous Johnson jazz jollification based on the old negro plantation songs in a somewhat chronological display I of their development into the modern popular craze I