El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-16

GONE oracle once warned the thea
ter public Of the American COM
monWealth that it must never look
for a plot in a musical comedy But he
had never seen The Three Romeos'
which has leaped into being at the
Globe theater.
There is so much plot to The Three
Romeos" that as soon as VIM j. Burns
has little time to spare we would like
to see him sleuth his way through it.
see him sleuth his way through it
There are Is life sized able bodied men
and women in the cast, and, you may
credit us, they tie themselves into a
knot that would give the best firm Of
expert accountants something to think
over The Iibrettist, r. II. Burnside,
apparently made a deck of the most hui
morous situations imaginable ana then
worked out a new game of solitaire.
Girls school the Scene.
Before we so into the musical part
of the cOmedy-and that IS the pest OF
it-you must learn something about the
plot The piece begins in a promising
way at q girls school. The duenna Is
about to leave for three days and the
pupils-in cap and gown-slng song
which indicates that there VIII De q
boom in the Cain-raising industry as
soon as she is gone The next moment
you ave into the plot
There is a red haired harridan who IS
married TO a TOunder VINO gets money
from her on the pretense that ne Is e0-
ucating mythical daughter She mas
a daughter Of her own who is engaged
TO a man who has divorced a woman
who is still in love with MIN ana VINO
poses as the daughter OF the husband
and a young woman who is secretly
n1arried-Or she'll lose her money-ac-
cidentally poses as the daughter also
And the man Wh6 is engaged 10 L4e
Woman's daughter has TO nave an uncle
and he impresses q tourist-and there
YOU are 1t Is q considerable plot we
should say, although we have mad very
little experience in these mysteries.
Having made all Of this ciear-the
florist. by the way, is in love with the
secretly married young woman and has
been making love 70 her aunt by mis-
take-we viii now turn TO the music.
Catchy Music.
After all a musical comedy is not
comic opera. 1t is to be feared that
this observation is not original, but ~
will let II go as IL STANDS IT, as We
are told, the object OF musical comedy
is to send them out Whistling, we
nervOusly submit the prophecy that
"The Three ROmeOs' VIII be successful
There are two or three songs in it
that will take" Notable among these
is Il ,Ookfne for a Girl Like Y Ou- Y on
viii probably Judge from the title that
there is nothing startlingly Original
about the theme, but IL has q lifting
melody and Georgia Game sang it we'll
the various choruses- backing her up in
excellent fashion. Speaking of the chO-
rus. there are two or three beautiful
and new stage pictures that are worth
seeing
Then there is the moonlight song,
which pleasingly supports the theory
that that form Of illumination was in
vented for the purpose Of making love
q contention that is backed up Dy the
f1-r 11r nr7fr7n n
moderns- Shirley Kellog sings a lyric
entitled oh Romeo" in which she fig
ures out that she would be better
helpmeet for that famous lover than
Juliet
Some Love Lyrics.
Ethel Cadnan IS strongly Of the Opin-
ion that It's nice to have some one to
love you, and Fred LennOx, who does