The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-23
WHO'S N GILL?
New Crop Of Bon Ton
Girls Never Heard
of Our Great
RefOrlner.
CHILLS IN THE BALD HEAD ROW
Manager Dinkins Takes in
the Matinee and Nc
Gillifes the Eve
ming Perfor-
mances.
TILDEA'S SUPPRESSED ENTHUSIASM
He and Mr.. Walter Reluc-
tant to Steal the Doc
tors Laurels.

People at the Bon Ton Theatre matinee
yesterday had the unusual opportunily
of watching Manager Thomas w. Dim
kins McGillifying his own show, the show
he booked for Jersey City before DR..
McGill and the police made themselves
troublesome.
DR.. McGin said last week that if the
shows We're as bad as the posters they
should be suppressed. and Mr.. Dinkins is
taxing no chances. The Royal Burles-
ouers appeared yesterday afternoon IN
all their glory, but the show given last
night was an expurgated edition.
After Mr.. Dinkins had finished the task
yesterday of McGillifying the posters
which are to advertise next weeks show
he was ready to put the performers of
the Royal Burlesquers through a course
of sprouts and bring the show down to
the level of police standards of decency
as set by Dr.. McGill and maintained by
Chief of Police Murphy.
Dinkins took a seat in a box as the
curtain went up on the first number of
the olio, and he remained there until the
close of the burlesque, which concluded
the programme. Every move and word
were carefully noted by Dinkins and,
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found wanting. At the close he ordered
the elimination of these. There were cuts
in the dialogues and the business that
resulted in leaving a rather lifeless corpse
of what was intended for a vivacious
bunch of high kicking femininity.
Inc performers seemed TO dislike the
new order of things last night when they
gave their first McGillihed version of a
s1iace that lr,,oxxrr1
sader's hand. Though their efforts were
fagrantly laborous they adapted them
selves to the situation with considerable
success. Occasionally soubrette forgot
and leg was started toward the ceiling
but the warning glances of her compan-
ions made the refractory member drop be-
fore the kick had gained sufficient i'm
petus to send it even to the hat of the
most dwarfed member of the aggrega-
tion. Once a team began an unMcGillified
dance, but quickly recollected that now
the performance was according to the
rules and regulations of Chief Murphy's
censor.
Perhaps the closest approach to the
original performance was reached in the
burlesque when the whole company did
a McGillified "rag-time" dance
The "rag-time'' dance is similar to a
waltz in the steps, but the couples do
couchee-couchee movement as well that
makes it a rather risque exhibition. This
style of dance became very popular in
the low dance halls of New York's East
Side few years ago and guests at tough
balls went 80 far that the police stepped
in and stopped it,
One .joke" that evidently slipped out
al raa - .-l,;I<
alleged song and dance comedians
do you think bloomers would make
me look longer?" asked one.
'iNo. but they would make the boys look
longer" was the reply.
In the burlesque half of the dozen girls
dressed in tights and military coats and
that was the limit of the exhibition of
legs. The coats were snugly buttoned up
to the chins of the wearers.
There was one noteworthy feature of
the show. The pictures advertising it de-
pict well formed, youthful women of the
not-too-slow variety. Not one of this
brand is seen on the stage. True, several
of the women are young, but none are
shapely. The majority are built on the
knife-blade plan, while one tips the scale
al ZoU dHOlTuQDOlS OF IQeredDOuLS. None
of them are calculated to take first prizes
in a beauty show. All seem tired and
lacking in interest in what they say and
do. Perhaps this is on account of what
they are not allowed to say and do-in
Jersey City.
Anyway, as the programme advanced,
all the FOUNDERS in. the audience began
to turn up their collars and gather their
u IL
After the show reporter sought out
some of the players to ask their opiniins
on the McGillifcation of their business
and posters and on McGillism generally.
No one of them would express an opin-
ion. They preferred they said, ii allow
the management of the show and the
house to do the talking They had never
heard of McGill before, but they didn't
seem to regret that fact particularly
"What, not heard of DR.. McGin?''
asked the astonished reporter of one
more or less statuesque blonde. why,
thought the whole variety world was
talking about him.
mot on your life. Who is he? Does
he run soda fountain or a tooth pull
ing contest?"
The reporter explained that DR.. McGilI
Just now was conducting a modesty cru
sade.
ron, he's DID. kind of Doctor said
the statuesque one, then he has right
to kick. It's mis- trade as well as mine.
jsick at the ceiling and ne kicks at the
wall paper. and that's the only difference
between us.
The blonde refused to believe the kick