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Show The Colonial. 'The Ginger Bread Man" is in a class by itself, and while it is fairyesque in character, the story is treated in such a unique way that it is more like a high-class travesty, and the clever badinage, the satirical turn of the dialogue dia-logue and the comic epigram that pervades per-vades it all, appeals more to the intelligent intelli-gent class in a community than to those who love horseplay, low comedy and the suggestive. e--tyle of entertainment so much in vogue of late. The story is pretty and enough to interest, the characters create interest for themselves them-selves the moment they appear on the stage, and the music is a. classic. A. Baldwin Sloane, who Is responsible for it, has a national reputation for success in the lighter compositions, r.nd lie has vp.t to score a failure in ar.y thing that he has written. His music finds a place In many private libraries, side by side with those of the great master?, and while it lias a pleasing lilt and a knack of catching the oar. it is absolutely without flaw from the point of view of s musician. The numbers which Mr. Sloane is responsible for in "The Gin-pcr Gin-pcr Bread Man" are "The Beautiful i Land of Bon Bon." "Mazie." "Every Little Something." "Do You Believe in iSanta ClausV" "Moon, Moon," "Old V Prameses"' and many other of infinite y charm. |