The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-16
"lhe Yankee Prince Comes to Toun
With a Sure Cure for the Blues
ueorge C0han Makes an Instant
Hit at the Newark
Theatre.
MIKE DONLlN AT PROCTOR'S;
JUNE M'CREE AT LYRIC
Excellent Burlesques at Other
Popular Amusement Places
in the City.
HERE'S only one way to express
yourself REGARDING Eenrpe Gotham

IT HERE'S only one way to express
yourself regarding George Cohan
and 1.-THE Yankee Prince, in
winch he n his royal family are
ulsporting themselves at the Newark
Theatre this week, and that is in slang.
whether you're addicted to slang or not.
And OF course, you're not.
Suff1ce to say, they're the goods"
and that they get away with it" every
minute Every moment is a big mo-
ment In this best of Cohan shows.
lnere are no lulls, where you wait
Anxlously for the principals. Every
one who has something to say
KNOWS how to say it, the dances are
lively. the songs are ~livelier, and the
chorus Is trained to an apparent exu-
berance that does away completely with
the Idea that it Is merely working for
money.
There is nothing of the h~ungry-pig-
wants-it-all about George Conan. Think
OF the way he could have written the
play II he'd wanted to, knowing that he
himself was bound to be the hero. We
might have had George M. every min
ute, and then some. But with a fair
ness that would have lone credit to a
completely disinterested party he gave
every principal as much, and even
more, OF a chance at the centre of the
stage than he saved for himself, for
which We admire him all the more.
There are few better dancers than
George Cohen; his heels are as light
as the proverbial t~histledown, but YOU
would not have to go far to discover
men of finer figure. Nevertheless, he's
the original George NJ, nasal twang,
voluble u~tterances, jumping-jack pro-
clivities and all, and we're his to have
and to hold. Nuff saidsf
The royal family. is excellent in. it's
way, too, particularly Josephine, who
executes the most difficult dancing
steps with exquisite grace and agility.
Fathers just father, and mother, in the
role of the patriotic Chicago woman.
who prefers Michigan avenue to STRAND
street." London, or the house where the
king lives is ex%cellently placed.
Getting away from the Cohans,
there is Tom Lewis, who has but
to purse up his observed mouth
and roll his robin's-egg eyes to
secure a laugh. That's the difference
between Lewis and George Cohan. We
laugh at the former because he's funny,
n we see 1t, and at the latter because
mes 1dnny and we don't see it, or be-
cause les not funny and we think
he is.
It's late in the day to talk much
about the play itself. Everybody knows
all about 1t. The fame of the Conan
shows always go before them. The
best voices in the company are. pos.
sessed- by Dorothy Jordan. and George
Parsons, and one. of their best songs
is THE Villains in the Play, Miss
Jordan has several costume changes
and wears complicated directoire
clothes beautifully. The Yankee
Prince" waltz, executed by George and
Josephine, Is scientifically graceful. #
two other people SHOULD try to do it
it would likely be very ugly. Thu dane
ing marriage is a scream all the way
through, particularly when the solemn
faced minister hops into the picture,
performs the ceremony to jig-time and
hops off again.
Among the good songs are TIN TO
Marry a Nobleman," aIm Awfully
Strong for YOU THE A B C's of the
L.. s. A. and MONEY!
ADELINE STANLEY CARR1Ck.