Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-10
Jacques
VAUDEVILLE.

The banner bill of the variety sea son at the Jacques had its first pre-
 sentation yesterday and both after noon and evening audiences expressed their approval of the program with en- thusiasm unmeasured. The headline number is offered by "The Eight Vas sar Girls and no better act of its kind has ever been seen here. Certain ly no set of performers could wish for more uproarious approbation than was expressed by the monster house last night The girls. and they have the right to be called beautiful, are sing CTS. musicians and dancers of excep- tional skill and their work is charac
 terized by a dainty refinement that is as pleasurable as it is scarce on the vaudeville or legitimate stage. The audience was unequiyocal in its favor able judgment at all times during the act, but the electric May pole dance, which closes the number, set the walls to rocking and the roof to rising with the power of the applause. Those who like splendid music. both vocal and in strumental. and dancing that has orig inality as well as grace. will agree that The Eight Vassar Girls deserve everything in the line of commenda- ton that can be said of them This act alone should be sufficient to pack the theater to the doors all week. The sketch without which no vaudeville house playbill is now considered com
 plete is presented by the Barrows
 Lancaster company and is called Tactics" This delightful little play will prove dangerous rival for the headliner in point of popularity. There is a paucity of good sketches in the market, but Tactics" is a superb one. It tells the story of two young people who are in love with each other. They are the children of two battle-scarred vets who fought on opposite sides in the civil war and to whom the sight of each other is sufficient cause for fighting over old campaigns. A dis pute arises as to how the regiments in one of the bloody conflicts lined up
 In their excitement the old warriors get down on their knees and map out an impromptu battle field. Lamps, crockery and statuary are used to de >4rete the atpaHent of fltheiDppnsingGr mics. The dispute -waxes hotter in the telling and finally terminates in the utter demolition of the valuable bric- a-brac. The troth of the lovers Is plighted through an ingenious contriy- ance on the part of the lovers which Is successfully culminated by each working upon the prejudice of their paters. James Q. Barrows as Colonel Stafford has role that affords him rare opportunity for the display of ms versatility. As General Drunn1ond, Harry S. Robinson is all that could he desired Miss Bingham Is Just dH- lIghtful as Colonel Stafford's daughter
 while John Lancaster imparts to the role of the West Point cadet the dash and personality that it needs. MT Lancaster is one of the handsomest and most talented young actors on the sss.e today. and it is always a pleas ure to witness his finished work. The other numbers on the bill are of uh- common attractiveness. Al Lawrence, .the man with the funny face, re- ceived great reception from his most of friends and his monologue Is newer and funnier than ever. Rocco Frianti hns some new tricks of legerdemalh. Hawthorn and Burt do some remark. .abfa dancing. Marlow PluhKed and company showed their traNesty mowers here before and made a big mt. They repeated It last night