The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-08
GREAT GIRL SHOW
At THE NEWARK
"The Time, the Place and the
Girl" a Musical Comedy, with
Many Pretty Girls.
GOOD BILL AT PROCTOR'S
MelOdrama at Blaney's and the
Columbia Burlesque at EN-.
pire and Waldmann's.

Don't You Tell" sang petite Violet
Macmillan at the Newark Theatre last
night. She sang it very prettily, and
lis hard to resist her, but there's one
thing at least that we refuse to be
silent about. And that, let us hasten
to state, is that The Time, the Place
and the Girr' is a bully good show of
its kind.
We respectfully submit that it has
some very fetching music; that it tells
a very pleasant story, and hat it is
very personally presented by a COM
pany whose graces of femininity would
cover q multitude of musical comedy
sins that happily are not there to be
covered.
It's a great girl show. First OF
all. there's THE GIRL. That is
dainty Miss Macmillan herself. who
plays a coy little miss with q
coy little glance. of the eye and
q coy little toss of the head that
prove very ~distracting to all and sundry
who come within their spell. Then
there is the common, or garden, variety
of show girls, forming the background
of summer girls; Harlem girls, board
ing school girls, nurse girls, ct cetera,
who are a likely lot themselves. They
wear many gay costumes, a cast-iron
smile and faces and figures not at all
to be sneezed at.
Last, and last only in stature, are the
ponies" about eight in number. who
economic notably on the costume
proposition as to quantity-and get
away with it-and who are as active as
hop-toads in the dance. They are all Of
a ~dlmfnutive size, and work like little
majors all the time they are in view.
OF course. there are other girls among
the principals of this glrly production
who ought to have been mentioned
right at the start. Besides Miss Mac
MILAN, who has a wee singing voice,
but is strong in the dance n the
comedy. there are Miss May Boutan,
who plays a firtatious widow, and
traipses through a couple of graceful
dances, and Miss Josephine Park. who
plays a nurse girl in a delicious vein
of quiet comedy.
So much for the girls. They are a
very important part of the entertain
ment, but they aren't the only Access
sories, by any a The show would
lose a whole lot of life and fun and
action II it were not for the jovial
and enforced merrymaking of
Robert G.. Pitkin. Mr.. Pitkin enacts a
happy-go-luclSy gambler In a happy
go-lucky way that gets out the laughs
willy-nilly. He comes nearer being the
star of the company than any one else
rim fact, is the star to all intents and
purposes. George Elmer, Purnell Pratt
and Robert III. Wilson give him capt.
tad support.
The piece tells a story about a bunch
of people Economically marooned in a
sanitarium, with no great brilliancy Oh
wit, but with a sufflciency of humor
to hold the interest and an allowance
of rather theatrically dished up senti-
ment that one can afford to forgive
In view of so much else tina is enter
tanning. Will NJ. Hough and Frank
II. Adams wrote the chatter ana
jest as they, with becoming mod
esty, term the book, and Joseph e.
Howard wrote the "~jingles and tunes
which make up a highly attractive
score.