New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-10

Tnntiv gfeyauson ............... Miss juliet
jean Paurel ......'.............Ch Charles winnnser
Young Amorrs. Llttie bily
Jasper Alfred Ls,s .,
victory '' Dorothy Jane Iondoner
Defeat. AIite F.>pA
God " Wa. .'"eo'sn ffed'r''S
Take it from the stout man who
smiled, giggled, laughed, roared and
finally got up out of his seat and
cheered at the Aston Theatre last night
George NJ. Cohan has put over an
other onel The stout man was not
alone in his opinion, either. There
we're any number Of other stout men
who shared it, and a large proportion
of the thin men were similarly inclined.
A happy time was had By sll-stout,
thin and medium. II was one of Broad
ways nights, and Broadway was bent
on enjoying it. Remarked man who
had believed the managerial announce
ment and arrived at o'clock sharp: Il
had to go without breakfast to get
here, but | made it,"
Along in the early hours Of the morn
ing, when all good morning papers had
gone to press, George Cohan may have
come out on the stage and made that
speech about the parental gratitude.
At the end of the first sct-the hour
was 10:45 o'clock-the Cohanites loud
ly demanded him. George failing them,
they turned to the right hand stage
box and cheered Pa and Ma. What
mattered it to them? George had hit
il again. Broadway was happy.
Having thus reported the riotous re-
ception accorded the latest work of the
popular Cohan, it becomes necessary TO
examine into the entertainment in the
cooling atmosphere of The Tribune Of
fee. Discovering that Hello, Broad
way" was what the populace craved,
Cohan set out frankly to duplicate it
and all its tricks. Also, in branding his
show Il 1916 revue, he has given ear
nest of many more 20 follow.
THE Cohan Revue 1916" is essen
TALLY a show for the wise. II takes
Broadway apart 70 see what makes Il
tick, and 10 does not always trouble 20
put it together again. 1t has its fun
with the show business and spares no
ore-nor Shubert nor Erlanger nor Co
han. II furnishes its own critique by
pointing out its own strength and
weakness as il goes along. Perhaps il
contains an oversupply of quips OF this
kind, but the first-night audience
laughed loud and long and bent for
ward for more. Future audiences, re-
cruited from Lynn and Sewickley. will
undoubtedly also laugh. even though
they will not always know what they
are laughing at.
Equipped with a hodge -podge plot
from a score or more Of the seasons
plays, the show bubbles gayly along
from scene 10 scene and from song TO
song. First and last II Is a show for
the Electrically sophisticated, thus con-
structed on the shrewd assumption that
there are few who will admit that they
are not of that class.
A rollicking Broadway show is The
Cohan Revue 1916 and that il will
jump into immediate and overwhelming
popularity is one of the theatrical GER
tainties. No one will care that the
, music is ordinary, and few will care
that the cast is the same. After all, a
Cohan imitation by a Liliputian is not
equivalent TO seeing the original
George, and it must be an easy going
audience who will believe that Richard
earle can ever replace William Collier.
In music and personnel the new show
is inferior TO Hello, Broadway" In
quips and quirks it is just as good.
Charles Winninger won the artistic
honors of the evening with a Leo
Ditrichsten imita ion that was at
times perfect. As the ch-buying
Paurel, skipping from scene to scene
with his invitations TO the fair sex 10
join him in the midday meal, Winninger
caught the Ditrichstein intonation
perfectly and deseTed the plaudlts
that he won. Harry Deli achieved
second place with his dancing His
sister, Juliet Def, was also in the
cast under the name of Miss Juliet.
She distinguished herself by giving an
extremely good imitation Of Emily
Stevens. but followed 1t with an eX-
tremely bad one of Ethel Barrymore.
Elizabeth Murray probably will give
better performance when she be-
comes used to the play. As Richard
Garlic remarked at one point, 1t was
the darndest show he had ever been in.
Miss Murray seemed too aware OF this
fact, as well as too conscious OF her
own cleverness and OF the cleyerness
of the lines intrusted to her. earle
was funny not quite so funny as he
might have been, perhaps, but funny.
James c. Marlowe, rescued from
frst-act bit in THE House OF Glass
did well az the father in "Hobson's
Choice" who went into the saloon 10
get a glass OF Scotch dialect. Valli
Valli was sweet and pretty as Jane
Clay not the Common Clays, as Fred
eric Santiey pointed out. On the con-
trary, she was Of the Clays from whom
came Henry c. and Bertha ". Little
Billy and some real Boy Scouts
worked the crowd up 10 fine pat
riotic heat in regular georgecohan
finish IN the first act.
And there were others including a
chorus man who was a ringer for Irwin
5. Cobb. They sang and they danced
and they reyelled in the task OF lam
pooning their associates. The old town
may consider itself fortunate 20 have
Cohan musical revue coming % il
every year, but it should be thankful
that the illustrious George can dash
of one OF these entertainments in a
month or so and have some time left
over in which TO do something that
really matters.