The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-05
NOBODY HOME" FULL
OF MIRThFul LAUGHS
INTERESTING MUSICAL COMEDY
TO HOLD DOWN BOARDS At
NEW DAYTONA THEATER TO-
MORROW EVENING

Nobody Home" John P Slocum's
new musical comedy hit. which comes
to the new DaytOna tomorrow is one
of the peculiar comedies that happen
occasionally in which there is abso-
lutely nothing to enjoy but the prin-
cipalS and the chorus. the music, the
lines, the dancing-at least that is
what the critics all say. and they
know. The book is the collaboration
of Guy Bolton and Paul Rubens' while
the music is from the pen of Jerome
Kern. All three have hit upon a new
idea, and are collecting large royalties
thereby. Nobody Home" ran for al
most an entire season at the Princess
and Maxine Elliot theaters in Man
haitian, and went over to Boston this
season for a REF visit. but was COM
PEELED to remain three months. All
of which goes to prove something.
Nobody Home" could be played
with or without music, the story is SO
well defined, and still be a success.
The laughter is said to start two min
utes after the curtain rises. and does
not cease for four hours. The story
is wound around the adventures of
Freddie Popple." north country
Englishman, who comes to America in
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who has become a society dancer.
Freddie is apparently an empty-head-
ed creature thence Nobody Home')
and gets himself and everybody else
into trouble by his blunders. He can
not get hotel accommodations to suit,
and accepts an offer of an actress to
use her apartment while she is away.
Unconsciously he creates a scandal.
and the clever way he extricates him.
self and saves the lady's name, form
the basis for one of the best musical
comedies that has been seen on the
stage for many years. There are num-
erOus other characters. including a
suave Frenchman, an excitable Italian.
a husband in search of novelty and
thrill a society dancer, an actress
who turns the head of everybody. a
Jealous wife and a number of similar
people to be found in this line of en-
tertainment The merit lies in the de-
cidedly original way in which they are
handled.
Everything about the entire enter
tainment is along new lines, even to
the scenery and costumes, which were
designed by Miss Elsie .DeWolf, and
are wonderful combinations of color
and artistics effect. The dance num-
bers are the last word in modern
| dancing, and the song numbers will
have everybody whistling. The most
likable features are. I'm Already" BED,
Wonderful Bed" ANY Old Night"
| The San Francisco Fair" Keep
| Moving" The Magic Melody" and
why Take Sandwich to a Banquet"
Mr. Slocum has provided cast Of
extraordinary quality with many
Broadway favorites. including Horace
Sinclair, who created the principal role
/ in the original London production.
Frisco DeVere, who is the very in
carnation of musical comedy, William
Blaisdell Helen Jost, Roy Torrey.
Kathryn Clark, John Paulton, Marion
Langdon, Rance Quarrington and
Maize Hartford.
Also a bevy of beautiful girls who
can sing and dance and are a delight
to the eye.
One of the special features of the
performance is the dancing of Hess
and Bennett, who arrived recently
from Paris. where they were nothing
| less than sensation at Maxims.
Their dances will include the famous
hula hula. the apache and all the mod
ern whirlwind and society steps. A
| special orchestra consisting of many
odd instruments will also be at fea-
tire