Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
BelascO.

y capacity audience that would have
been more than satisfactory in point of
! numbers for a grand opera performance
| enjoyed The Midnight Sons at the
Belasco Theater last evening. This latest
| Lew Fields production is billed as "a
musical moving picture in eight films. =
/ 1t is. and more, for it runs the gamut
of comedy, high and low comic oepra.
musical comedy, vaudeville and spectacle
with the chain-lightnng rapidity of a
moving picture machine. This double
barrelled action of the eight films and
the originality of their staging covers up
admirably the few defects noticeable
the weakness of the female voices in the
chorus and the lack of a real prima
/ donna.
THE Midnight Sons are four young
men who it is pleasant to note. having
finished their career under the white
lights are striving to reform in a left,
handed fashion. In this respect-and
indeed in every Other-the show is clean
and free from what might be anticipated
from its name and its long run on Broad
way The father of the four sons has
become tired of their extravagances and
on the eve of his departure for year
and half of travel. gives each of
them large sum of money with the
threat that, unless at least one of them
doubles his allotment by the time he re-
turns all four will he diSinherited.
This. However in now isc Gisconcerts
the BOYS. one. opens n shoe store. and
another establishes a thcatcr for a
reiSninG footlight queen. Both lose.
But the either two have opened a hotel
in Florida for millionaircs. and they
Ike a paving venture out of it. not
by good mana cement but by employing
the first two brothers as hellboys.
whose tips amount to over five hundred
a day. Such is the plot. which can he
remembered or forgotten, as one de-
I sires
The real show is the spectacular pres
entatiou of series of stage novelties.
The farewell banquet to the senator,
| the interior of the Merri Murray The
alter tthe widely advertised spectacle
| of a mimic theater complete, looking
| from the stage) and the Honeymoon
express. showing the observation plat
form of a Pullman speeding along over
| the rails. are stage pictures that COM
pei by their sheer magnitude of concep-
ition.
: George Monroe Pansy Burns-of
be that it may ia me-has retained
enough of mis- old act and added a suf-
| ficient amount OF new material to con-
vUlse the audience in the same old
| style. Gus Bsci as wine agent who
| has succumbed to his own wares, is ir-
resistible in his pantomimic spasms.
while Harry Fisher as Dick one of the
| sons. is a rough andready comedian
who wins applause.
| Maude Lambert essays the role origi-
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production and is especially acceptable in
| her rendition of Rings On My Fingers
J Though she may not have known it, her
task of persuading a Belasco audience to
Join in the refrain with her was easy
| one and her success in so doing speaks
! for itself. Clara Palmer, no longer sylph-
! like. is heard to best advantage Is Merri
Murray i'm 1.-The Soubrette's Secret and
| Carmen the Second" Two of the best
songs in the show are "My FREELY
| Lady and 1.-The Cynical OWL by prfn-
cipa!s and chorus. with additional stage
business that makes them go with
VIM Linden Beckwith sings True Blue"
and Florence Martin Little Mary Gard
ners.
Gladys Moore and Maize King are toe
dancers of merit. though just why the
| former should deem it wise to initiate
Genee, even to personal appearance and
mannerisms. is not evident. for she seems
icapable OF winning applause as herself.
/ One of the very best numbers on the
entire bill is the Marvellous Millers In a
whirlwind dance.