| Show r i I PERCY r I I I I NEW TOnK Jul July Sl 1 l Tho comical fell fellows fellow snow now these o about the matter mailer In ih inmany m many ways but those mo most molt t heartily guffawed ht t a ak Jt It was l In the tho sho o-sho be be ginning F of ot o time are the the ones mes ho hoUse Use their Anatomy belO below the cere cere- cerebrum cere- cere cerebrum cerebrum brum to td get their effects where Thre Th hasn't probably been much ti i I In the methods Of ot titillating th the thal ot or or the tha tear teat ducts Ither for that matter since the cymbals clashed In Sheba's front parlors If Ifan Itan an S aspirins aspiring comedian came to us usand usand And said Mister what should I Ido Ido Ido do to tD make a big hit and got get a II big i contract 1 I should tell him to learn rn how how- to fall tall down s and d not hurt himself Learn Learn to take taro of the tumbles and the jokes wm will take care caro of ot themselves we should Instruct him The example of this would 1 be bo Charles Chaplin If It It were ere not noc for the fact tact that ho he le 19 reputed to pac pack more Intellect thin th most of the pedagogues We Wo ire not thinking of Chaplin the th film king but of Chaplin the funny drunk in his old vaudeville dos dosIn davgin In Jess Lasky's A Night In an anI English Music Hill Asti e Bler l hi his beezer as red as lJ Moscow w wehr- wehr wear wearing ing the most disreputable topper Dud and highly Improbable pantaloons he nightly won the delirious huz- huz huzzahs huz z hs of the parquet simply by tumbling Tumbling onto the she hc tago from the stage bo box tumbling tumblong Into the stage st box from the stage jut stage I putting himself down where herG he ough tn t to be Johnny Dooley spills his hi pet person on about these those nights to the grew rea de dc de- de delight light lIht of the Scandals S Ray Cummings hero of ot the tri tri- triangular triangular tri triangular angular I ve nest that engrossed I public prints not long ago In The The Passing Show lights on top of a grand Irand piano and breaks it In Inho teas o The assembled citizenry nry goes Into Charlotte Green Gre Greenwood n- n nood wood at the Music Box Box sprinkles l lher her e extenuated self be- be beneath beneath be beneath neath the tho proscenium The In the tho auditorium trespass On apoplexy James Barton Darton balanced on the edge of his shoes In Dew Dow Drop Inn while that vehicle was WIlB rolling n d a-d d the populace crowded and hallooed 1 wIth joy These with a few Leon othen others Errol Lester Alien Allen Ray Dooley Neno and two chaps who walk upon their necks in the Follies Follies would seem to be bo the of the topsy turvey tur topsy ey Their business in life lite ItIs It Is to stumble by bytho the nay ay It Is a II worthy army and It d the It travels hot on its stomach but on more protuberant portions of ot Its anat anat- anatomy anatomy anatomy omy The pundits have never decided i what It Is that makes people laugh To say it ft Is the unc unexpected ns as IIO some do Isn't satisfying because I that would work but hut once on ry ery I I whereas the Gilt Way ay in- in intelligentsia In titter and com ulse themselves with merriment over O overseeing overseeing seeing one onG of ot the o mountebanks I perform when every move of ot of his burly hurly burly is 19 old stuff sturt Speaking of the tumblers calls to mind the most Ironic death deth chron- chron chronIcled chronicled chron chronicled Among moni them then in tn recant years Thus was the tho passing of Willie brother of ot Johnny and Ray nay and one of at o the tha most s- s Dent of ot the droppers self Ho trip trip- tripped tripped tripped ped on a one ona night cell celland elland and broke his neck Closely allied to the bum 8 II is another school of ot comedians 1 tine e broadly witty Their tAc- tAc tActics tae tac tactics tics verge close on their leA restrained re- re re restrained strained brothers of ot the Slapstick the athletes of the hit fall hit and New York at this thia Moment h are such S as S George sol Has Sal MI in The Passing 1 as nl ShoW ShO and Richard Carle Carte In Adrienne In Inthis inthis Inthis this category Cl belong Ed Wynne Eddie Cantor and Frank Tinney for or Instance Wo We think it auld s uld be demonstrated that the success of I these lads most closely ILP app app the heights of entertainment when their methods most closely ap- ap approach ap approach the tam tumblers rs It may be put forth that the nent neat vh fall on the tho flat tint of ot the back or the tb cunning trickle and decline Into tI a nose noso dive divo Is the tho surest fire bull r rot ot of any century Let Lot the s stake the most of C It u it as indeed ed they do Earl Carf oils oil's I page about the tho V nl lles ties of 1922 contains the lines 24 2 4 Mot Most 1 Beautiful Girls In New York An An Ensemble of 44 U Dancing Girls We submit tat trat thes these plan plan- plangent plangent gent phrases are arc capable ot of o any anyone anyone one or more of ot at toast least three mis- mis misinterpretations mis misinterpretations interpretations There Thero Is la nothing or of the succinct compulsion that was contained in n the minstrel ads adson addon on tho provincial o of many years ago which read lG iMen Men in Dress Suits Suits-H Suits Docs Dos Mr Carroll mean that 20 of the 44 girls are not the most beautiful girls In New York 1 That 11 would be ungallant Of he means that beside the 24 most beautiful girls In New york Yo-k there are 44 girls whoso whose beauty Isn't worth mentioning Th That t would be oven more mono ungallant un Or 01 does docs he mean that the 44 H In question may Inny maybo bo the tho most beautiful girls In Happy Kansas but that h he touch ouch for tor them them in th the tho s sAnd 1 And that's the tho most unkindest crack of ot hit alL Speaking of ot the most beautiful girls in Hopp Happy Kansas brings s up the point of ot beauty competitions searchers after aCler that com com- commodity commodity bring to light from time timeto timeto timeto to time lovel lovely creatures from other centers center whoso whose starts a IL BL SI Vitus's dance on the press agent typewriters Our chorus come from afar They Ire are from rom remote plateaus buttes mesas and 1 Main streets of the midland but bui why dont the c explorers seek the t t heal heal- healing bealIng ing eye cye balms on our e own n door door- doorsteps doorsteps steps 1 Are there no maidens ns sell sell- selling lag Ing and chaperoning head had headwear wear head wear In the restaurants no walt wait waitresses walt cash girls sales Bales etc who are ar nr not than those In Dr beauty fir The answer i is that it if there are arc not not there thero ought to be bo |
