The Washington times., 1908-09-15
Tuneful Songs by Star and
His Company at
National.
High Art Among the Show
Girls and the
Chorus.

The sign of the Empty Water Wagon
/ swings mUsically to The breeze IrOm the
National Thedter this week. Now and
then it squeaks and occasionally the
master Of the inu-Raymond Hitchcock.
of the half-mOon smile-interprets its
! swinging with a notation his most Sc
we're critic would not call singing but
| with a humor no critic could resist The
/ legend OF the sign announces this star
ia The MerTy-Gc-Rouud." and with 10.
swaying OF it back aud forth. the lively
/ blades and maideus 20 be met up with
! inside, the roIlicklng fun and the 'VhIghY
aht' there is promise that though tie
water wagon may be hgurauvely empty.
! the inn VIII thrive on Washington Gus
tom.
| Some Of the "'ahJ'' is very high. in-
| deed That's the way with these mlI-
steal cOmedies-there are so many girls
IN the good ones and so many CT the
girls are pretty that while they are on
! the sage each one vies with ner neigh
Dor to exhibit ali tire -aht' she has.
| Sometimes, in the AJerry- -Go-Round,
they are country girls at county fair
| sometimes infants in baby peramisu-
Iators. sometimes displays in a New
York shop window. sometimes Mneola
\ Guards (aHd 81 the thriving mart OF
/ MiueOla. down Texas way. has any such
guards in il. the number Of young men
| there is likely 10 grow fasD sometimes
! Jockeys, models, sightseers and good
! ness knows what else. But always the
| ant IS high enough TO be viewed ciltl-
/ cally, very critically indeed. by az the
! COnnoisseurs in the audience.
DO they sing. these girls: $c' so as
| to interfere with their value in the stage
picture Mostly they Just drill and dance
and change costumes and the audience
! is entirely satisfied Which is some
thing OF an achievement. after ten years
OF show girls, and ten more OF pony bal
lets. and ten beyond that OF Du4a comic
1 opera, for the Circle Production Com
pany and Manager Harry Lindley-
A Real Woman Comedian.
/ or course. there are principals and
some Of them display their "aht' as
well as the chorus. But there are two
who do not depend on an art you can
see. The other one is Miss Cathryn
Rowe Palmer.
Some Of US with Ions memories re-
cali a little woman IN musical produc-
tions of another grade. whose talent
shone through even such surroundings
ena -viry hade fair II ever she had a
good clear track. TO run far ahead Of
stars then shining With more or less
briEhtEess. Well I'm the "Merry-Go-
Round this actress has the right Of
way on her side of the stage. aad she
proves herself 10 be a six-cylinder high
brow dressed up as a sort OF musical
Sis Hopkins. You have 20 see her
countanauce and hear her enunciation
70 realize fully that at last here is a
woman made out Of Adams funny
bone. and not his rib, but the chorus
Of Mss Palmer's frs song viii let you
, a little way into the secret. Here fl
Is:
stupid Mr.. Cupid never calls on me.
This skinny drummer won my syic-
pathy-
Mother said that she was certain
That the place he got the lace he
gave 70 me.
Some day either the Circle Company
OF some other viii hunt mp ore OF the
! 1000 musical comedies that nave never
been produced for lack of woman
comedian. and Miss Palmer will make
her frTtune- When that time comes.
, VIC wao 20 70 the theater viii have
j Dull Care driven into a corner for us
ana cihoroformed.
The Same Old Hitchcock.
It goes pretty far 10 say CT the barker
for the Empty Water Wagon that b!-
inarne is RAYMOND Hitchcock. And n,
ends his fun with a song hau Of Wash
mGton knew IN sdvance-"There comes
night, when We all get tisht. and tbs
water wayCn is Il lonesome sight -
# IS evident that as Hen Stubbs d.
has not changed his stage personality
But il should be written IN letters iarg,
% and pain that i,i spots tins is the bes'
comedy Mr.. HitcLcocI, has given those
VINO like TO laugh lie keeps Il all with
IN his assumed ChaUacter-whcther as
q Grand Army man. or AS Heinie tht
waiter. or as lien" IN the rube clothe.
inobody ever wea,s save on The stage
Even Miss Palmer does -not crowd hin
too close. But it is also true that Il
Nh. TIitchcock'S success depended upon
notes clear as crystal. true AS the 81
o. the clothes all round him OF tI,
stage, and resonant as "a iir,-5eil tWhicl
il do,Sn'U. hc would be IN "a sauatoriEE
, for diseases Of the eye. ,hro2J. an,
car.
one might go ou and discourse ny the
column on Air HitcAcocks huuoT AN,
his "Ort' mot "aht) but, as hc say:
- in one OF his songs
So what's The use OF all these cunning
little babies growing up 10 homei.
WHATS the use Of dying if YOU have t,
what's the use Of lending anyone
tvc-spoJ II next time be borrow
{. All single folks. .tis said. viii aIway
wish that Ihoy were wed and thoS
q who axe wish they were dead.
n So what's the Usc2
.r What is the uSe2 well. II You hav