The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-29
Stief Pianos Used Exclusively
All Over Tom" With Joseph
Santley Is a Jolly Jaunt
Piece Is Cirl-and-music Show. with
Several Lifting Melodies
Clever Dances and Hosts of Pretty
Girls Stunningly Costumed.
BY JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

| Going "All Over Town." with Joseph
| Santley. at the Belasco Theater las
evening proved a diyerting occupation
despite the curtailmeht of the itinerary
programmed. which system of elimina tior
proved a somewhat fortunate thing OF
we might yet have been following him on
his phantasmal jaunt for he is a suffi-
! ciently good looking naturally marcel
| waved youth to entice at least the femi-
joining him in almost any jolly escapade
whether made of the fabric of dreams or
otherwise.
1t SO happens, however. that in the new
musical revue which the Messrs Shu-
bert gave its metropolitan premiere at
the Belasco last evening. Mr.. Santley' s
sightseeing tour Is matter of slumber-
Gus visions, the youth falling asleep dur
ing a performance of Faust while at
tending the opera with his fiance, Mar
guerite Gray
The scene shifts to the apartment of
Reggie Faust. where he is an old man
trying to keep up with the gay process
sion of youth. Here Hewitt Burns. chief
assistant to his Satanic Majesty. appears
at the call of Faust. making his entrance
through a flaming chimney in a most
spectacular manner. The Burns chap is
head of the Temptation department of
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verons into sncb a torrihIo nnrson ,ha+
the Devil will have none of her. In every
conceivable manner Burns has tried to
rid himself Of her without success. so he
enters into a contract with old man
Faust to restore his youth in exchange
for the radiance Of his wife Faust
agreeing tn furnish evidence for divorce
nv making love In the long lean and
lanky female.
His youth gained Faust enters into the
mad swirl of gay New York life. and we
follow him through his dream maze of
seven successiv. scenes Including the
thorouehfare before the Winter Garden:
the Meadowbrook Polo Club. the art gal
lerv in the home of BURNS. into n Rroad
y,,y song sbon: unon tho roof NJ the PITT
Carlton. back TO the hoy at the opera
in which he has fallen asleep where we
witness his awakening from his fovered
dream. and ending finally with him in
the possession of his unconditional youth
in tho auditorium, of tho Netronolitan
Onera House where the Girl of his
dreams and the girl of his realities are
ono and tho same and he ;s rid ~ the
bug-a-boo female nerson ubo On upban-
niIy entaneled the threads ~ his dream
iannt through the CAV rnetronoiis
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