El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-28
CRAWL ORD SHOW
IS 4 BIC LAUGH
Hodges & Tynes Show Opens
Weeks Run With Three
Delightful Crowds.

There's a 81 road show playing at the
Crawford theater this week for % and
81 cents. It is called the Hodges and
. Tynes show, but it should be called
the Scream and Laugh show, for the
three capacity crowds which packed the
theater Sunday afternoon and evening
/ laughed their way through an hour and
= minutes of clean. clever comedy.
good music. splendid singing and an
abundance of that intangible but neces-
sary quantity known as pep" without
which no musical comedy ever got
! over
/ The Hodges and Tynes show came as
a surprise to most of the people who
went to the Crawford Sunday Manager
E. F. Maxwell pulled a surprise on his
patrons From the time Ernie Burnett.
who wrote the score of the comedy,
| started his orchestra until the last cur
tain. there was a zip and a snap to
the show which made 1t the equal OF
many-and the superior of several
! touted New York show productions
which have appeared in the Texas
Grand in recent seasons at two sheckels
a seat
Roof Garden Scene.
The musical meIange is called a
Night on a New York Roof Garden"
and. TO make good on the title, a real |
roof garden with real electric lights. /
dIop of Broadway and 42nd street are !
shown. The scenario is the usual |
clothes line upon which to sun large !
number Of laughs and many catchy |
songs. The plot scheme is clever at /
that 4 New York husband plans to /
meet a Broadway broiler at a roof gar
den after office hours and friend wife \
DISCUSSES Mike" the man servant in 1
a suit Of rented dress clothes and a
tenor voice and takes him TO the self 1
same roof garden and introduces him
az "Signor Castoria." Jimmie Hodges
the de facto comedian in chief. answers
this by declaring that all of the babies
are crying for him and the laughs are
on their way
Hodges Funny.
Hodges would be the whole show in
most musical comedies. But he is pac-
ing this heat in such good company |
that the other entries are stepping be- |
side him at the wire As laugh getter, |
Jimmie is a super six He never gets
rough-a thing the whole show avoids |
from curtain to curtain-he sings well
hen he stops acting funny long enough,
he does not try to grab all Of the laughs
for himself and he works as hard as a
Mexican cutting a lawn on piece work
once during the show. Hodges takes
the directors baton away from di-
rector Burnett and gives comedy imi-
lation of big league music with the or
chestra scoring an assist in every
1t is cleverly done and is
good bit.
Black Face Star.
The only kick at the roof garden |
show is a negative one. There is not !
enough of Elmer Coudy in the piece. |
Elmer appears in the disguise of A ]
pixieland brunei and is the waiter al |
the roof garden His black face sketch I
IS the best that has been seen here since
Honey Boy" Evans and Lew Dock
stader were here He sings That's
Why 1 Never Married. with a few local
abs at the national guard. cleverly
lone in suppressed way, which is de-
iGhtful after the usual minstrel type
IF stage negro. His talking sketch is
equally good
Miss Jean Tynes is the leading wom-
m and she Is some star. She sings well,
lances gracefully and wears fashion
ible clothes that were made for her
and look it She does song and dance |
ketch with Jimmie. sings Pretty
3a by" alone and has TO sing il all over !
gain 10 satisfy the crowd. She has
tage presence and considerable supply
f good looks
Boys Sing Negro Songs.
Messrs. Benson and Twyman. two
GOOD natured boys. sing a rakish negro
iong and impersonate negro girls Of Il.
Their work is clever: their singing is
rood and they add a freshness 10 A
how which is remarkable for the num-
'er of young, clever actors like these
wo
The chorus is well trained and. led by
'retty Del Marshall. sings and dances
veil The Black sisters do song and
ance in which the dancing is better
han the singing and Ernie Burnett the
musical director. plays a remarkable
iano solo in which he initiates the
hines in the Rosary and gives his
wn Interpretation of this famous song
nd A Little Bit of Heaven"
Manager Maxwell was forced to give
curtain talk sunday evening by the
LEASED audience at the first show and
e promised more good things for the
rinter season. all of which. he pledged
rould be as clean as the Hodges and
'ynes show. y NJ w