The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-11


Buou--A Lucky Hoodoo.'
Empire-yaudeviiie.
Colenial--vAudeville.
Lubin-vaudevtlle and pictures.
"Baby Nine 1t the Academy.
The waits between the acts were
long-tsdiousiy. vexatiously. exas-
peratinsiy long: the leader Of the
orchestra had his violin tuned vilely
off-pitch and sawed OF his entre-act
music to suit the shifts and fill out
the evening. but in spite OF these
handicaps Baby Mine" scored a
bowling. shrieking. aboriginal sue
cess At the Academy last night.
Baby Mine" IL an absurd farce. 1t
il almost annoyingly funny. but 1t
certainly is funny. with the primitive
humor that all karces must have to
be successful All It lacked ives a
couple OF slap-sticks. q few bladders.
. treadmill and q night Of collapsible
stairs to be the biggest winner OF all
the farces In history.
Margaret Mayo took up the theme
for her vaudeville act where most
of them leave of. Borrowing a baby
IL by no means new. Borrowing
two Of them has been heard Of in
stageland, but never three. Margaret
Mayo's heroine starts with one. the
baby. Of an Italian woman who
changes her mind and wants her
bambino back. She has to so farther
and borrowS pair OF twins from her
washerwoman and the washerwo-
mans husband wants them back. All
Of which Ia done to win back the
jealous little boy husband who has
gone of in a hum because WHEY told
fiji about a luncheon. She had
dined with his big. fat friend and
because she did not explain In the
beginning all the trouble and fun fol-
lowed.
The fun IL SO fast that the audience
never stops to think what q horrible
travesty II is--but what's the use.
Baby Mine" Is as comic az a Carl
cature. as comic as comic valen-
tine: as funny as Happy Hoo1igan."
the "katzenja Kids" and the
rest Of the Sunday supplement OF
The Richmond virginian. and In the
language OF the newsboy. that's going
some.
The company couldn't fail to be
good. The piecee plays itself. Clin-
ton Preston. showed no little ability.
Marjorie Cortland was as nimbie as
a circus GIRL Earle Mitchell made
q hit as the fat friend and Helena
Mojeska Rapport was the Italian
mother sure enough. Hers was a
Characterization; 50 was the part OF
the tough cop played by Robert
Brandon.
But in less capable hands Baby
Mine" would be amirth making sue
cess. There are pillows OF laughter
In IT, waves OF them. storms OF them
and every other adjective that may
be used. It's funny. for = fact.
Colonial Theatre Changes Vaudeville
and Pictures.
Something new to this city in the
greater vaudeville kind Of entertain
ment at the Colonial today. when a
brand new set of first grade motion
picture plays will be introduced. A
bill that will make almost
complete change from the sue
cessfui one that appeared the first
three days of the week will follow
1t,
One act of the earlier bill will be re-
" Wy
D. o ann copany ol p"s-
much merriment here. The four new
acts to display their wares today are
Delmore and Oneida. q man and wo-
man in an avrobadc act. done in
mid-air on Japanese perch: That
KID. sixteen-year-ofd youngster in
= list OF singing representations: Won
Mitxel and Maynard in a clever COM
edy conceit Cupids Coincidence,
and Clous and Hoffman. q German
pair OF entertainers. who will
pave the way up to that funniest of
all funny acts, The Misiit Army"
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