The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15
NOTES OF THE MUSIC PLAYS.
what l. Good In Them and what
Is-WcII, what's the Use:

Audr,as DIPPED certainly knows how
10 select artists. In the newcomers who
are appearing in The Lilac Domino"
ne has two young singers who have
made an immediate success here
Eleanor Painter has Il delightful voice
of unusually appealing timbre. while in
the young Wllfred Douthitt, who would
bc even more interesting If he sang with
greater nuInce. he has a really sensa-
tlonal singer The comedy OF the new
opprptta has been much enlivened since
the first performance. The imitation Of
the ballet which now follows the dog
clrcus - cNcruciatingly funny. Nine.
Maubuurg and Miss Etling, seated or
the bench at the side of the stage, stare
at TIA proceedings through opera
glasses and hnd IT as impossible az the
rest of the audience to control their
laughter John Hazards personal
humor is now best in the last act. SO
much o. ii seems the spontaneous. His
description of tn virtues of the hot dog
queen of Frankfort is as amusing bit
of broad comedy as the local stage can
supply. "The Lilac Domino" is row
full OF fun and unsteady far finer than
any other musical play 10 he seen here.
~ Jolson has ceased 20 do the bur
lesque on My Lady's Dress" which
showed him for the first time as a
white faced actor to use the slang OF
the profession. 1t was not by any means
his most amusing effort, but it had
merit. Because he did not happen to
hit the mark at the first effort the
young comedian need not have been
discouraged. II would have been much
bct,er for him to have pcrsevered and
tried 20 do something with his material
even If il was not possible for him To
make an impression I'm ii at once. Young
Mr., JolsOn needs variety. Just at pres
ent he Is doing exactly the same things
he did four years ago. He does them
possibly with more authorit. and with
Z no !oss of his enthusiasm and with the
strongly magnetic charm which he eX-
crc.scs as few other comedians on the
stage to-day are able TO- But magnet
SIN viii not avail always. Mr.. Jolson
ought to study the example Of the Won
! derful Frederick Stone. Mr.. Stone Is
funnier in Chin chin" thar he ever
/ has been But it seemed before he be
gan to act in his present play as II he
were at last to find il impossible to dis
cover something new for his admirers.
| But he did and proved funner than he
1 ever has, Mr. Jo.son is much younger
/ than the athletic comedian at the Globe
/ Theatre but he IL not too young TO real
ze the value OF increasing ones artistic
| possessions.
In the meantime Mr.. Jolson is now
/ singing the song which is published
/ here. 1t is perhaps more difficult to
sing than any of those trick songs. He
manages it wonderfully, however, and
the words are put on Il printed screen
before the audience, They are as fol-
! lows;
Sister Susie's sewing in the kitchen OH
! singer"
/ There's niles and miles of flannel on the
floor ana IN the stairs,
And father says it's rotten getting mixed
up with the cotton
| Md sitting on the needles that she leaves
upon the chairs
And should you knock at our street door
/ ma whispers, Come inside
/ Then when you ask where Susie is she
says with loving pride,
Sister Susic's sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young
sister SUI shows
| Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd
soonsr saep in thstles
7 Than the saucy, soft, short shirts for SOL
diers sister Susie sewS.
! piles and piles ana piles Of shirts She
sends ont To the soldiers,
And sailors won't be jealous when they
see them, not at all,
Ana when We say her stitching will set all
the soldiers fleming.
She SANS our soldiers night best wnea
their backs against the wall.
And little brother Gussie, he Who lisps
when hc says yes
Saws where's the cotton some from off my
kite Oh. can gueth
II. T. parcWsN wrote tho text and
Il T.. Weston tho music II this song,
which has proved the most successful
of any of the English war songs Ana
Al Jolson sings it inlmitably,