The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-26
ADJUSTMENTS
At the Lyric


 Swelterng with the heat packed house at the Lyric last night gave an enthusiastic reception to another good bill. In spite of all the modern cooling equipment of the new theatre, the enor- nous crowd made the house exceedingly warm, but warmth in person appeared to increase warmth in spirit and the seven- act bill was complete success.
 Emma Bunting, for whom Birmingham has always appeared to cherish fond- ness; Kinney and Clark, the dancers. and Stuart Barnes carried off the honors. The Bracks with a well trained acrobatic act and the five musical Germans were very well received.
 George N Brown who claims to be the worlds. champion pedestrian, stages really new act and the crowd appeared to like it. Brown and his partner at least do more genuine labor for their money than any vaudeville act seen here in sometime. They have two machines something like the old-fashioned tread mills geared up to indicators and in thess machines stage a walking race of one mile.
 Kenney, Nobody and Brown staged a black face act that had nothing of the negro about it except the color of their faces One or two Of their parodies took we'll
 A rousing reception of applause was rendered Hubert Kinney and Helene Clark when the curtain rose on the next act. MT. Kinney is Birmingham boy, being a brother of Mrs Culpepper Exum. In spite of prolonged applause at the final curtain, they declined to give an other dance. although the crowd clam ored for more Mir. Kinney and Miss t<xf t,o proper way to dance the modern dances in the ballroom. Lyric patrons were de- lighted with the comparison between the dances of Mir Kinney and Miss Clark and that given at the Lyric last week. which latter had been regarded as the best of its kind ever seen here. Mr. Kinney and Miss Clark kept their performance free of the extreme features which marked the dancing of the former week, which made it the more simple and attractive as it lost it's 'stagey" phase and became a real ballroom or home exhibition of dancing. Both appeared exceptionally graceful and to their practiced feet the difficult steps of the half and half' and other new dances appeared like child's play. The act will draw many extra patrons to the Lyric all week.
 Little Emma Bunting needs no praise in Birmingham. Every theatre goer knows her and her personality. She is the same Little Emma and she is as delightful as ever in little child role. The act itself is somewhat clumsy in spots. but it's not Miss Bunting 8 fault. without Miss Bunting it would he nothing; with her it is everything As The Princess of Patches" she en- thrones herself on a bale of cotton and plays a pretty make believe story. The scenery is very pleasing.
 The five musical Germans gave nice musical act. Miss Katherine German is the real artist on the cornet. The di- n.inutive leader, a chap some seven or eight years of age, caused much laugh ter. They use four wind instruments.
 Stuart Barnes has . one-act comedy dialogue and singing act and he cap tivated the audience. He is exceptional ly good and is easily one of the head liners of the bill. He Is a genuine come dian. the Kind often billed and seldom seen.
 The Bracks have a hard act to ."put across" the footlights, but they did 1t. It Is pure acrobatic and little more need be said. The company Is composed of six or eight men and Is one of the best trained ever seen at the Lyric.
 Motion pictures close the bill. which will be shown every afternoon and night this week.