The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-06
LYRIC OPENS MONDAY
 WITH GREAT FEATURE
K eith Big Time Vaudeville House Has Labor Day Matinee Tomor-
 row and Society Night

The south's prettiest and safest vau- deville theatre, the Lyric, will be opened tomorrow for the season with special Labor Day matinee at 2:so o'clock and a performance at S:30 o'clock, which will be the initial so- ciety event of the season. Arrange ments are all complete for the open | ing and splendid bill of seven acts has been secured The advance sale of tickets is large and the indications are that every seat in the theatre will 1 be filled
 | Two vaudeville acts with fame as wide as the ocean will be seen at the Lyric and two more widely different acts could not be imagined. Barnolds animal actors granted to be the great est animal act in vaudeville, will be
 the headliner, and the audiences have a remarkable treat in store, The extra added attraction will be the famous Parisian danseuse. Mana, assisted by Mons Alexis, In cyclonic dancing per l formance.
 | Barnold's animals serve to inroduee Dan, the original drunken dog actor, about which Acton Davies of the New l York Sun said: "A new star came to town last night--a star of such mag nitude as a character actor that he de-
 serves to rank away up almost along
 side David Warfield. Certainly in his palmiest days as comedian at Weber and Fields, MT. Warfieid never con vulsed any audience more effectively than this new star did at Hammer
 steins Paradise Gardens Dan Is a dog star. in word. If a menagerie
 annex Is ever added to the hall of fame ithis phenomenal little beasts cognomen will probably be found enshrined there" Dan is part of an act that a pti 1 monkeys who stage "A Hot Time In lDogville,'' which Is a wonderful bit of Ipantomime. The act fs the greatest lanimal headliner in vaudeville and a delight to grown people as wall as lchildren.
 Nanas appearance is decidedly fetch ling, but in the wild whir1s. the tornado like rapidity and dazzling agility of the dance that Is the real merit of her iappearanee. She and Mons Alexis work
 with reckless abandon, exhibiting a strength and skill that are marvellous Vaudeville doesn't boast of a stronger
 dancing feature.
 | Sherman, Van and Hyman In a me- lange of melodious nonsense, using all
 their own new and novel features, will be a third feature of the bill They
 will be heard at the plano and in voice in Irish Tango" "Ze Lolly Pop" Sticks and Stones" "Ching Ling Foo, 'On, HOW She DanceS,' on, My Love-
 and Harmony Day" which are all new
 this season. They are three classy en- tertainers.
 | Presenting a rural comedy sketch Frank Milton and the DeLong Sisters promise clever 20 minutes The scene l is laid in an upstate junction station
 where a sister team of vaudeville ar
 lists are waiting for train and their fresh repartee with the station hand is
 clever and new Some songs, violin
 solos and saxaphone music enliven the slxit considerably.
 "A Little Bit of Everything" is of
 fered by the Four McNallvs. who are comedians, acrobats, tumblers. wire
 walkers and buck and wing dancers. The melange of stunts Is said to he
 excellent with the comedy feature pre-
 dominating.
 Emil Suber. a blackface comedian.
 and Mat Keefe. famous yode1er with
 an excellent voice, form another of the good features.
 II Walter James, a famous knight of
 the road, and a tramp comedian, said
 to be as clever as Nat Wills and along
 very much the same lines. will be a distinct hit. for he has the reputation
 of being very clever, talented and yer
 satile,
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