The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-29
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is The Whirl Of Society" in the Gar
rick theater this week, and which at
| tracted an audience, Monday evening
whose numbers were SO many thai
the latecomers filed the lobby The
show is big and handsome and Is
truly q whirl. not Of society, but OF
clever people, fun, music, dancing
burlesque and odd conceits. Ii is a
glow OF color, with a rich riot of bril-
liant costumes against a background
OF elaborate scenery.
The entertainment cheered Broad
wayites on their way last season in
the Winter Garden. 1t is just the sort
OF thing TO spread joy anywhere. IL
makes no claim to anything highbrow-
ish, or well-balanced, but, II does
make good as blues" chaser.
One OF the oddities OF the show is
the runway from the rear OF the the
alter, up over the seats TO the center
OF the stage, and over which the en-
tire company makes entrance and
exit. This is taken from the silent
drama, "Sumurun," which had such
vogue last season in New York. and
which has not yet gotten as far as
Detroit on It's road travels. The run
way Is lighted with rose-shaded mean
descents, and Its use in The Whirl
OF Society" is novel and pretty.
There are SO many clever and tai
ented folk in the show that 1t Is dill
ficult to keep track OF AL of them.
comedian whose work has the genuinh,
ring to il is AL Jolson, the black-face
"pusson'' whose whimsicalities have
entertained local vaudeville audiences
frequently. Jolson has SO much orig
inality and talent that he could anord
to store some Of II away for use at q
future day. Fanny Brice, whose fid-
dish song, "Folde-Rol," Is work OF
art. offers some of the Yiddish and
coon characteriZations, dances and
Kidding" that have made her IA
nous. Miss Brice happily combines
youth, prettiness, grace, Temperament
and talent. She Is q feature OF Tie
Whirl of Society," as she was OF Zieg-
fields "Foliies.' Then there is Ada
Lewis. who contributed to the gaiety
OF the Weber-Field show when the
galaxy of starfunmakers visited De-
troit last spring. Miss Lewis Is
character actress OF recognized abll-
ity and she is a loud and screaming
success In the present entertainment
as the very noveaux richie society
dame, Mrs. j. Hemingway Deane.
And Lawrence DOrsay, the always
aforementioned Earl Of Paw
tucket." who does the la-de-dah Brit
isher to perfection because that's the
way nature endowed Mr.. D'orsay. Mel
Vile Ellis was as big a hit with the
audience in his pianologue as he was
with Mrs. Deane's reception guests
OF the other wellknown people who
figure prominently In the general
whirl are Oscar Schwarz, Willie Wes-
ton. the veteran Clarence Harvey, the
Courteney sisters; those statuesque
beauties, Claudia Carlstedt and Flor
ence Cable and the dainty, dancing,
Laura Hamilton.
From the beginning to the end OF
the show there Is swlftness, buoy
ancy, gaiety and laughter and so,
what more could the seeker after en-
tertainment ask, especially when
these ingredients are served by
markedly clever cooks? Each OF the
well-known people mentioned above
is given as opportunity to display his
individual ability, Ia vaudeville, and
they do II 10 tho complete satisfac-
ton and tumultuous applause OF the
onlookers II Is safe to say that the
season of 1928 will not offer a
bigger. funnier and smarter show
than THE Whirl OF Society"
An event OF more than ordinary in
terest will take place next week la
the Garrick theater, in the first pres
entation on the American stage OF an
operetta, my Little Friend" by Os-
car Straus. who wrote THE Choco-
late Soldier" produced by Detroit s
own native son, Fred c. Whitney.
who also sent on to fame the last
named opera. Mr.. whitney will pre-
sent My Little Friend" with a light
opera cast which he calls the Whit.
1ney Opera company.
ELLA MAE HAWTHORNE.