New-York tribune., 1916-06-23
Good and Bad Mingled in
New Production at
Winter Garden.
PRETTY GIRLS AND
SUMNER COSTUMES
An Acceptable Hot Weather
Entertainment That Runs
True to Form.

THE PASSING SHOW or 1910. a musical u-
tfsIasan11 IN prologue. Two s.is Sna ssssn
49,. h st,I go,S si'T D. Dt, 49,, ~ d,fo W~-sn pro
duct1 a. the Winter Garden By the Mes'n Shubeit
THE PRINCIPALS Florence Moore. Dolly llackei.
Hattie Darling. Frances Demaest, Ilida MoIns.
Thamara Swirskaia. Ma Belle. stella hoban vera
Rcohm Ruth Murphy. Ford sisters. Ruth Randall.
ia Wynn. George Baldwin. James Clemons ler-
man Tlmhcrg William II Phlhrck. Fred Walton.
Andrew Harp,r. William Dunn. Charles Mack John
Swor. bud Murray. James llsSey. JACK boJls
Stewart Jackson and Saranof.
In the world OF the theatre all that
glitters can be exchanged for gold at
the Offices of Mcbride & Tyson. OF
course, nobody looks for substance at
the Winter Garden that is, not IN
the libretto. Musical shows, at the
present day, can be divided into two
great classes, and the Winter Garden
drops into the other one. That is the
class which frankly puts plot and mean
ing and generally common sense be-
hind il. and endeavors TO be merely
great and kaleidoscope vaudeville
show. Usually II succeeds, for the rea-
son that the public is fond Of entertain
ments of the sort, and that no psrtic-
ular ingenuity is required 10 concoct
them. And as for the first class-but
there are not enough of them TO hnger
over. Most Of the mare written by
George Cohan.
The new production at the winter
Garden is "The Passing Show OF 1910
and is the second or third Of the series.
As a matter of fact, it might Just as
well have been named after the En-
cvclopedia Britannica. Not more
than twenty minutes of its three and
one-half hours are devoted 10 the
v,bimsies of 1916. The rest of II is
loose and variable entertainment, a
show which strangely mingles the good
and the bad. The sequence OF events
last evening was ample proof OF tne
shows malleability, for u became IN
creasingly difficult to correlate the per
formance and the programme.
II does not follow, OF course, that
the thrown n-together type Of entertain
ment is invariably the inferior OF me
piece that is carefully plotted. inaeeu,
much of the new piece at the winter
Garden is decidedly entertaining, anu
the production as a whole rs an agree
able summer show that VIII undouOVcc
edlv be Just as successful as any u
the summer shows, and more so thdn
most of them. Not even Mr.. Flo Ieg-
field. for example, could find fault with
it's chorus girls. They approach per
lection. and are attractlvely costumeo'
Most Of the costuming Is OF the Brlgh-
ION garter school, which has It's sum-
mer land winter appeal
Florence Moore, she VINO use1 70
romp the vaudeville stage with bllly
Montgomery, is the principal comeGi-
enne. Miss Moore Is possessed OF the
true comic spirit, although her man
ner is a bit too blatant. Last evening
sbe was never vastly humorous, iact
for which it is easy, gallant and prop
ably correct TO blame the autnor' nNeh
GOOD material. there IS no reason why
Miss Moore should not be Just as 1uhhy
as Fanny Brice. Frances Demarest' IN
corporated into the entertalnment at
late hour. was not as much IN evidence
as her talents warranted. ne"comeI
vas the attractive and vlvaelous pony
Hackett, who reaches the winter Dat
den via the films and the VauaevliIe
ataoe Hattie Darling earned honor
able mention by her acroDatlc N'oi'I
,iovino. and Thamara Swirskaia ana
Ma-Belle showed skill and one or TWO
other things in classic dancing mum
Der. -. a. -.
ringleader among the male humorists;
Mr. Wynn began in the audience ana
gradually got upon the stage wnere
F. wae sometimes humorous and some
times not. As a garage mechanic ana
as travelogue artist he inspired con-