El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-22

be funny. There are lots of funny Wom-
Ell, but very few women who can be
funny. She is one of theIn-she is a
scream. 1t is not so much what she says
as how she says it. She got off the in
nocent little What's it's name, Richard
or Mabel" in asking the sex of ca
nary; so cleverly that the house roared
with laughter. She told about a poker
game until everybody r:Om BOB Teine-
hart and Ben Leyy-who enjoy anything
if there are girls in it-laughed all their
sides were sore; her imitation of the
fashionable New York women in a box
at the opera and her FakeOff on the tele-
phone girl answering 4 hurry call of a
subscriber were more than screams. Her
Hoop La La song convulsed everybody;
it was SO funny that the plaster on the
proscenium arch cracked a smile Her
Beduoin Love song was just as sweet
and tender as her other songs were fun
ny, and her loFemaking scene with the
old souTherner was funny gam
bier being prosecuted in Ell Paso. Then
her scenes with her husband, the gee
MUS whom she declared Evas so busy
being a genius that he forgot to be a
gentleman, were very clever. Her talk
of her "Lucitania appetite and tugboat
income" her reminder that he used to
spend his time calling her darling but
now he calls her down. and that the
best husband looks before ne narrieS
and overlooks after ne is married. We're
just few of the brilliant sailies of the
piece.
Clever Conversation.
She is also very clever in ner CONVEX
sation with the boys" The show is call
ed The Boys and Betty" but it is
mostly ali girls and Betty" however,
there are enough boys to give the proper
turn TO the name and one rather old
boy who is as clever with his feet and
voice as the younger ones she cautions
one of the boys that there are 0wo
kinds of girls to shun-blonds and bru-
nets" To one of the boys declaration
that a certain girl is an angel, Miss Ca
hill urges him to 'see her before break
fast and then you IL apologize to the
angel
She takes off the rich with the sally
that woman has so muc1 money in the
bank that everybody things snes beau
tiful.''
1t is this line of patter, but in the
inimatable Cahill way that permeateS the
entire show; nobody can do it just like
Marie CahiH. She is more than clever;
she is a genius, with voice as sweet
and mellow as a violin or a flute, she
can adapt it equally we'll to the senti-
mental ballad, the coon song or the COM
ic dirty. She apparently make no effort
in any of her work; it is just as free
lines roll out in such brilliant smooth
ness, so fast that it taxes a rapid fire
brain TO get them ali and enjoy them;
if you laugh ar one thing like you real
ly want TO, you miss ,.le next Marie
Cahill's fault if she has any, is that
she is too funny; she could give the au-
dience half as much for its money and
yet oyerstock cheir appTeciative system.
Splendid Company.
And Miss Cahill is not the whole show.
She has a company of people that are
not only good, but cle-er Her chorus
girls have better voices than the princi
pals in the average musical show and
they all have pretty faces, good forms
and are graceful in their movements.
And such clothes, The chorus of the
CahiT show looks like a fashion plate
or a parade on Fifth avenue on a Sun
day morning. It is useless to mention
names. for every member of the cast was
splendid; in fact all the principals We're
good enough to be starred in the ordin-
airy road show of the musical comedy
variety, and it would be pretty good
show, too.
The play is in three acts-located,
first, in Betty's home where she boards
some ambitious students TO help her ar
tistic'' husband make a living; second.
in her shop in Paris after the inappre-
ciative artist husband decides TO leave
her and she has started up IN business
for herself. and lastly. in the gardens
Of Maj. Gordon's palatial villa outside
the city of Paris. The husband mean
time falls in love with a ballet dancer
and commits bigamy by marrying her,
while the wife, freed by the husbands
criminal action, weds zone of the boys"
of the first act, who has become sue
cesSful Partisan journalist
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