The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-26
Good Singing and Dancing, Ex-
cellent Scenic Effects Are
Features OF Newark Show.
JULIAN ELTINGE'S1
REPRESENTATIONS FINE
Choice Vaudeville Offerings at
ProctOr's and the Lyric-G0Od
Burlesques and MeiOdramas.
y on get both quantity and quality
/. for your money at the Newark

ny OF get both quantity and quality
y. for your money at the Newark
Theatre this week, where the
Cohan & Harris Minstrel Honey
Boys with George Evans--the inimit-
able-in the lead. delivering as choice
a collection of new songs, quite new
acts, n almost new jokes as the mos
discriminating could desire. backed by
scenery that would do credit to any
musical comedy ~'a-goin'."
The curtain raises upon a bed of
enormous orchids, with robins and ca
nary birds as large as eagles perched
thereon. Slowly the flowers fold up,
to disclose the honey boys in all their
hon-glory. sitting in a semi-circle, r
minstrel fashion.
Harry M. Morse, interlocutor, won
derfully tall and prenaturally solemn,
introduces the stunters, and after a
lively program, George Evans, the
Honey Boy himself, arrives, cocksure
of himself and strutting accordingly,
with a short-legged costume and a lit
tie straw hat hat gives added iaipu-
dence to his black countenance.
George Evans tells a story so well
tina it doesn't bother you a bit.
even if you've heard it before. But
YOU probably haven't. He intersperses
his Jokes and comments with poses and
fantastic steps, the like of which were
never before seen on land or sea. Dig
nifed souls. who would shudder at reg
ular vaudeville in a vaudeville house,
lie back in their chairs and howl in
appreciation.
Jntermission-next half. The deal old
plantation scene. without which a min
strel show would be like a wedding
without a bride. Cabin in the fore
ground, river and slathers of moonlight
in the back, cotton fields. also mooniit'
in the middle distance. Eddie Leonard,
the dancing marvel, assisted by the
two Gordons, shows steps h a are
rnarvels of i%ntricacy. Walter Brazil III
long yellow skirts, surrounded by
pnickaninnies, does some eccentric
gyrating.
A wait, and a stir-then that perfect
lady impersonator, Julian Eltinge, who
could give lessons on how to manage a
train to those who've been aides all their
lives. In a costume of silver thread
and lace. that fits like the proVerblal
paper on the ditto wall, and a red Wig
topped by a blue hat, MI. Eltinge an
rounce that he is the "Belle of Broad
way and who would dare galnsay
him.
A second later he appears in the most
Partisan of bathing suits and sings d
ditty about the folly of going neal the
water. and then, with Oriental music
and in d costume that suits the part
he ''does a Salome," posing srace1uliy
enough to suit Maude Allen.
After a program of drills and new
old vaudeville stunts m "1he behe
of the BARRIERS Ball. a one-act mu-
steal comedy by George Cohan, in which
a number of dainty dances and catchy
songs are introduced, with George
Evans, as Kid Jones, and Julian
Ultinge, as Annabelle Baseonl, the
belle. as leaders. Eltinge's gowns
are marvels of fit. His neck ana
arms are beautifully enameled and
nicely formed. 1t is hard to beheVe
that he really is a man until ne re-
moves his wig and shows what a goou
masculine mead he really has.
Among the particular stars, outside
OF Evans and Eltinge, are John King,
who sings I'm de Whitewash
Earl Benham, who renders Meet Me
in Rose-Time;" Frank Morrell, VINO
sings Love Days. Matt Keefe, who
gives wonderful yodel songs. and Eodle
Leonard. who renders big Brown Boo
loo Eyes" in a way decidedly his own
ADELINE STANLEY CARRlck.