The sun., 1905-09-12
nan WILLS IN AMUSING SHOW.
.7HE DUKE or DULUTH" IS FULL
or PLEASING MUSIC.
r. Il, One Of Those Comic Opera Things
with Lots OF Fun-Sonss About Recent
Events TtCkled the Audience and
, 0ne I'm Ragtine Made 4 Real hit.


:, .rte Duke of Duluth" which was
hro,,clt cut at the Majestic Theater last
o,c,ine. there are numerous attractions
,rd Giyersicn ns which carried along the
,nore or less nondesciipt production at q
.xiosinr gait and caused demands for
ancore after encore. The piece is billed
n. George Broadhurst's operate Farce.
win mr,ic by Max y. Witt, but II Is such
stun a. for these many years has been
.cc4pted bcth in town and on the re I'd
As comic opera
qhe im,cssible monarch with his i'm
,, ..ibe count in an n,pC ssible land Is the
Eating, and theatergosrs might NIL In the
,ictuie blindfolded, 80 far w the story
.oes, But they never would come by
s,e.,work to the stage pictures OF the
Majestic.
The management has been bounteous In
,he cooring and costuming OF scenery
md chorus. Brilliant color pictures come
almost tka!eidoscopically In the rapid changes
a, the considerable chorus, whose effective
topvery is set of by or commingles with the
ovsn spread of colors IN the scenery. The
,.ncing is graceful and merry and accom-
uanies almost every song OF the seventeen
IN lhs program. The musical numbers
and dances. the program says, are Staged
nv MIR. Sam Marion, who deserves credit
,dr his part of the production.
Lonl,ii,. is Mr.. Nat Wills, whose tramp
.pecislties are known to the vaudeville
stage Mr.. Wills is the star Of the per-
fnrmance, and at the end Of the first act he
WIS called upon for a short speech, but he
m,destly sh; ret honors with several cap
able fun makers Of his nonstellar COM
nsny. The theatre was we'll filled in spite
lstless at first, was enthusiGstio with it's
apnIquse when the show got under way.
The production Is practio ally a sue
,sssion of songs and dancing choruses.
With Mr.. Wills disporting among them,
arriving his share Of the songs and re-
veang himself az singing comedian
no NO. chance at the topical" is missed. as in
Ar. Wll,s Strenuous" with It's obvious
nnnortupi,ies. ann and his If Ny Man Could
noItfor Me, in which the insurance rcvela-
lions figure and there is a delicate reference
to the skin going with the hide.
One Of the songs which tickleel last evenings
Hish for Him Then sung by Mr.. Henry
Norman as Kiakka ~, King of the Land
Of Wot-a song Of the man over fifty, who
-yhen he gets to IS knows that he's alive
and no peach hangs too high FOR him then.
Several pea ches Ganced out upon the
stage to prove 1t, in the case CT kiukka.
Notwithstanding the reiteration In various
oruers Of the deelaration that the re
time songs are gcing out, "lhe Duke "
Duluth has one, as has almost every musi-
clyi,ce put en- this fail, and in .the Dukes"
case the ragtime song "Nicodemrs,' sung
by Miss Catherine Call as Jhdnsi, hidkkd's
daughter, with chorus, caught the greatest
applause Of the evening, the work Of the
darn.s in this chorus being particularly
elective.
some Of the choruses appeared in stock
mrs with butterflies and things emtroid-
cred on HEM One section wore their
embroidered crowns just above the knee,
bit Of mystical symbolism which was not
explained.
nf the other songs which rleased were
This Sweetest Part OF Loving is to Dream"
sung IS duet by Mr.. Wills and Miss Hattie
Anoli as Princess Fliriino, the Kings
sister: There's One Sweetheart III Never
Forget sung by Stanley Hawdns as
Captain Dennis O'Hdrd, and MY Dainty
Drsden Shephertle,s," sung by Miss Call
and chor,s dressed a. shepherdesses
taken from set Of Dresden china.