Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-21
Th Hero of The
Girl From Utah

....,h Cawthorn was quite the here
!. occasion last night at the For.
nonald Brian was there, of course
was a gentlemanly drunk" dowr
s. ~. arst row, and that Anglo-Germar
'ssses. the comedian OF 1.-THE Girl from
y achieved herodom by Joining the
. -a.1,an In lnterruptlng his song and
.,rc,ne, zone fool at time Is all
4 ,,n work here" And then. as MIR.
,..v used to say, "They trun him
1T"
"a for a good while the comedian
]. mo hero Of 1.-THE Girl from Utah."
. Z. He put all the amusement into the
=. act. and didn't give up his labors,
4, when the company really took hold
y,stnga along toward the middle of the
y, III AS he said when he began to
s-,,a up finances against liabilities for
y. ,axis and theatre tickets, he constl-
"a birnself an entertainment commit
n. really had a good many things to
IA him-perky, cocky Donald Brian,
,.nInr round the corners of the modern
hsess in, his own ineffably exquisite
IN. Julia Sanderson. smiling, dancing
~ prattlng herself through her songs,
IA what was very amusing plot for
trb act
mare you see Miss sanderson escaping
,su A pursuing Mormon by pretending
n, is in love with him. The funny part
IN IA that Mr.: Cawthorn gets mistaken
4, me matrimonial monopolist, finds any
-
,ocket and even n 10-pound note forced
hto his hand for n trip to distant Paris.
About this time something happened to
a, sub-plot, but Mr.. Cawthorn spoilt It
N being funny. And so there was moth
M further to report, but a pursuit of
M sanderson to the real Mormon's
Muse and ball, where everybody agreed
4 sst married. which is the principal
,urpose OF musical comedy balls.
Now the peculiar thing is that the first
stt with a good plot, wasn't half so in
l,rssting as the second act with no plot
A all Somehow nothing got started. not
l5.n over the song hit THE Same Sort
II GIL" until Miss Sanderson invoked
NJ spirit Of Bernard Shaw in you
Nsgsr Can Tell" Then II was different.
One reason for the relative baroness of
Ne BEGINNING Is probably the producers
neglect of the chorus. Another may be
n music. A good part of the time It
rs It's placid way, invoking no more
nan curiosity about who wrote it-which
q three men on the program, Messrs
RuAsns Jones and Kern-and where they
~ Il from.
There were some who said tnat this or
Iiit piece was Jerome Kern out of Her.
ltft while others confined their objec-
tons to the assertion that 1t was too
cruel Of Donald Brian to ask us to "Step |
ms Way" That is a physical impossl- |
hlliy for anyone but him or Vernon |
Clsle
However that may be, 1.-THE Girl from |
Uhf' doesn't really get going its best |
VI the Arts Ball, which Is about the |
llire where the London atmosphere goes |
ufboard and they throw in little |
k-ercan enthusiasm. And what should |
the best example of that but very
hgenlous little burlesque of the movies? |
no screens, one with "cut ins" of the |
roper sort and another to keep the three |
mars Of THE Trappers Wife; or Virtue |
Rewarded" from falling out of their little
tct set into the footllghts. And behind |
nsm. some most realistic and noiseless |
m1uthngs a very loud set of cocoanut |
ihtus In troshalc tetrameter hoof beats,
ine gun that shoots a cloud of face
powder just like the real reels. All that,
Win tlnpan, interpretive piano thrown
y. Is enough to make any musical COM
stY amusing even If 1t did come from
Engand and even If j. Albert Edward
Aaone did produce 1t.