The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-18
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The best we can do for Yorke and Adams Is to pledge them that the next time they give Montgomery such clever entertainment as Bankers and Brokers" presented at the Montgomery Theatre last night. they will be more fully rewarded for their labor and their expense.
 'Bankers and Brokers" is correctly called a fantastic musical comedy and it might with equal correctness be called a unique, new, novel, Imaginable and enjoyable comedy. It is brim full of spontaneous fun. bright things done differently and is presented by a com pany of capital entertainers, men and women who know their business and who 20 about their work with vigor, vim and nerve, imparting to the enter talnment a dash that is always con- spicuous and that projects itself Into the audience. giving every one a good time and leaving memory Of happy foolishness.
 Yorke and Adams came to Montgom- cry as new ones. They came unher- aided by glittering promises. The Montgomerians who saw them at mat inee yesterday and last night will write their names in large type hereafter and will look forward to their coming again with pleasure. It Is an old vau- deville team, this Gus Yorke and NICK Adams Up in the East they are known as funsters of the first rank. They have simply enlarged their sphere of actiivty in Bankers and Brokers, and have surrounded themselves with Q number of players equally as clever.
 There is not enough story to Bank CTS and Brokers" to confuse any one, but it Is fun fast and furious and 1t en- gages the most blase person. The first act takes place in a Vslll Street brok- ers' office. The whole jolly party of some forty people is transported to Palm Beach, Fla, where the second act discloses gorgeous scenery. Indeed. this second act gives opportunity for some of the most effective tropical scenery shown here this season, and 1t was such a bewildering revelation to the Montgomery audiences that they gave 1t unstinted applause.
 It may he chronicled right here that nc musical comedy of this season has been produced to more enthusiastic audiences than those which saw Bankers and Brokers" Everything on the stage was so new so effective, so spontaneous that the play progressed through repeated rounds of applause and the actors with a commendable spirit of accommodation repeated nearly every one of the tuneful songs dances and good vaudeville acts In re- sponse to vociferous demands on the part of the house patrons
 Yorke and Adams appeared as two credulous Hebrews. They were not the exaggerated Hebrews usually shown in musical comedy. They are original in their methods and they jumped into favor upon their first en- trance. Their parodies were scream lngly funny and their humor was in- fectious
 John Collins and George Smith, the two knowing brokers, who helped along the trouble for Pincus and Plonsky were breezy and good singers Mir | Buckley was satisfactory as the fren zied Brazilian in love, and MT. Barrow as the acrobatic office boy, was a prime | favorite He and graceful I.ttle Miss Lafferty. the telephone girl. did some heel and toe dancing that was as good as the best
 A dainty, girlish young woman, with l sweet face and melody in her voice | programmed as Anna Wilkes, played | Mollie Sweet and Miss Rita Richmond who had, perhaps, the best singing voice on the company was the "Florids Nightingale"
 l There were twenty chorus girls ant they were selected with due care. They
 ranged from ponies" to queens" ant