Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-14
"IiIGH JiNKs" MAKES

HIT OF THE SEASON
Maybe there isn't any such thing as
Il perfume that makes people like them
selves and love everybody else; maybe
that miraculous extract IS just another
OF those marvellous cures out OF Germany
that don't cure: maybe-and this q
bright thought!-Otto Hauerbach Just
made up the idea in his fertile mind
But all this is Just lot of maybe's.
The facts. the solemn facts. are that
rs everybody who has seen Peter
Pan" believes In fairies. so everybody
%ho saw and heard the wondrous story
OF High links" and it's magic proper
, ties. as II was told In song and story
at the Academy OF Music last night
knows that there is something In It,
Because, while nobody could smell
the perfume from which the piece takes
its title, everybody saw the effects Of
II and. what Is more. felt II himself
The audience laughed as heartily at
and enjoyed SO thoroughly Friml's en-
trancinS music. that practically every
situation. song. dance and ensemble
was given once because II belonged to
the SHOW" and was then repeated half
dozen times because the house wasn't
it,
And more than that, after the final
curtain fell, the audience tried to give
Itself another little show by whistlinE
or humminS every bit of the melodious
score that it could remember-which
is. by the same token, just about the
final test.
Nor was any Of it to be wondered at.
ling farce and the most tuneful musl-
many, day. Played without music. IL
would be extremely amusing. while the
se9rs If or PLAYED by the same aug
last night. would be well worth hear
ing-without the accompanying COM
The story is too involved to retail,
but 1t is easily understood. and II is
funny enough in itself, while the lines
ana business with which 1t is unfolded
surdity. Most of the musical comedies
though this is unostentatiously billed
two. numbers that give It Vogue U'e hut 1
while High Jinks." which Is the theme
Of the perfume-to descend to sort OF
which ,perrvades the entire piece as a
thematic MISUNDERSTANDING aGain-are
the most whistieable. the score is sim
and uncut.
Among the men of the cast. only
comedian OF the Tom Lewis VARIETY he
plays j. J. Jeffreys for ali II is worth.
The women arc far more satisfactory,
about tho men? Cecilia Hoffman, While
around most OF the musical comedy
Veola Is clever dancer of the aero
batic order. and the other women are
competent enough to handle what is
is clever enough TO walk away with
tho whole performance Whenever she
is on the stage.
AS actress. comedian. rag-singer and
an-round funmaker. Miss Gay is In n
very small class. to which may bo adj
mitted only two or three other women
OF our stage.
Besides the farce, the music and the
principals. there IS "a chorus of some
twenty girls and eight men. who
sing and dance with vim and en-
M. Cohan. Indeed. all the numbers
are speeded up to such an extent that
It Is natural that the audience wants
them al over again. During par
bles." for example. there was n sort
or threc-ring circus going on: Miss
HOFFMAN was singing charmingly,
" absurd and two chorus girls we're
doing a dancing specially that made
the house sit up bit higher, to say
nothing Of the fact that the, chorus
cally and tremendously. while hig
balloons were sailing out over the
audience.
Thigh links to-day. See at least
one of them! r
Tho famous motion picture, "Nep-
tunes Daughter" which has so great
ly increased the fame OF Its principal
actor. Annette Keliermann. will. be eI-
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday OF
next week, with daily matinees at 3
o'clock.