The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-27
lngsworth, G. j. Kirch, E. boss Bak-
er. L. A. Hamill, Ira Wills and M. E..
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Potash and PerImutter.
The up to date garment In
three pieces designed from material
IN the Saturday Evening Post stories
OF Potash and Perlmutter was pro-
nounced to tit like de paper on de
vall'' by the audience at the Grand
last night The stories by Montague
Glass furnished the material for the
Play and the cast which was present
ed by A. H. Woods was OF the best to
portray those most human of heroes,
Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter.
The audience laughed at their quarre!s
and chickering's, which after all con-
tanned much Of philosophy. And they
loved them for their sacrifices and
their humanity.
Briefly, the story of Potash and
Perlmutter,' deals with the trials and
trtbulations Of these two partners OF
the cloak trade through their gener-
Gus championship of Boris Andrieff,
young Russian whom the representa-
tives of the czar are trying to drag
back to the country of his birth and
to a lifetime In Siberia. They pledge
their all to gochis bail, land when.
through their ignorance of the law, he
starts for Canada to gain respite
from the trickery Of the Russian rep
Iresentatives and the partners are in
ldanger of forfeiting their business and
their homes, the story takes serious
turn, indeed. But Boris learns through
the newspapers Of the danger to his
benefactors and returns In time to
save them from ruin, and to learn OF
his complete vindication of the charges
jagainst him. There is plenty OF 70.
nance to add to the charm of the play.
for Boris marries Abe's young daugh.
ter, while Perlmutter wins lady de.
signer." with a business head ike
Carnegie and a shape IKE Lillian
RUSSELL young, lady. by the way.
who figures extensively in the COCO
fortunes OF the re-established firm.
Jules Jordan was unapproachable
DIS Abe Potash. and Lew Welch was
splendid Perlmutter, the younger MEM
Der Of the firm. Lottie Kendall as
Ruth Goldman, the lady designer, was
Especially good. In her part, and Gus
Conan as Henry Feldman, the crook
lawyer, was true to life. Marie Howe
made very sympathetic Mrs. Potash.
and Pearl Ford was a charming tIrnnaI
Potash. Jules Unger made very
acceptable Boris Ondrieff, the young
| Russian who Is befriended by the firm.
"Nobody Home"
! With the same cast, chorus and
production complete as appeared in
| New York, Chicago and st. Louis this
season, the Grand offers this big mus
ical comedy for Keokuk tomorrow
night The st. Louis Globe Democrat
last week said:
| A quieter show or one richer in
quiet humor than Nobody Home, now
at the Shubert, has seldom been on
view in st. Louis playhouse
| In the first place, the orchestra does
not work itself tired in the opening
loverture at a moment when most
musical shows are being introduced
with all manner OF noisemaking de-
vices. Instead OF the conventional
blatancy and racket here #e have some
subdued, quivcry Sounds on ffddles,
| flutes and the like, with hardly any
thing like resort to drums. cymbals
and traps This holds, true later and
the accompanimentsit ito the songs as
we'll as all tifeai.dnnesa music are a
gentle, Mostly soothing Kind, leaving
the audience m doubt 'as TO the intent
of Composer Jerome Kern or his
clever interpretsro and orchestra lead
er, Ben NJ. JeTgne.
4 Really THERE'S no need for much in
strumental outsivings when the ac-
Iccmplished farceur and whistler,
Charles Judels,, sings why Take q
Sandwich to a Banquet"' or the light
baritone, George Lydecker, intones
i..ln Arcady." And it would be i'm,
proper to make q deal Of noise Of any
kind while that soft-spoken fn1itator
of silly Enghst1men, Lawrence Gros-
smith, recites Bed, Wonderful Bed
It's a restful BIT, an antidote to nerve
tension, an antitoxin, where the MI
crobes of fatigue are wreaking havoc
on the tired business man.
Dancing is Inoffensive.
The dancing, likewise, is mostly. OF
the gentlest ballroom variety with
nothing audible save the glide Of per-
feet footwear and everything kept at
perfect tempo by the song of few
iwell-played fiddles and whisperings
lon well-attuned flutes.
/ OF course somebody has to supply
come sort % noise, and this is mostly
left to Maude Odell, who as fierce
brunette, and termagant (termagants
lare mostly brunettes, but not vice
versa, pays inc JediouS WhS VI Noi-
ando D'Amorini. whose numerous
amours keep him in difficulties.
/ Lawrence Grossmith, master Of quiet
Ihumor and excellent comedian, makes
the most of the rich situations in
(which. as Freddy Popple'' of Ippleton.
England, he finds, himself placed. His
ldifiident el3cution is delight and as
the numbskull stage Englishman with
isami-occasional flashes Of intelligence
he reminds of the elder Sothern in
that asinine thing of many years ago
ientitled Lord Dundrcary.
Carl Lyle as PLAT" manservant to