Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-15
SUMMER SHOWS" RIGHT AT HOME
WITHOUT HASTY TRIP TO BROADWAY
Photographs Quick to Record Latest "its From Plays
Enjoying Successful Runs-Kitty Cheatham "Vc-
torized"-Some New Columbia and Edison Offerings
BY the Phonorrnnh Editor

owners of the various music and voice
reproduction devices need not make
special trip to Broadway TO keep in touch
with "the summer shows"
The principal companies are ever on the
alert TO select the most attractive hits
from the scores and TO offer variety both
of the words and music of the pieces that
are thronging the plRyhouses for runs
prior to touring out upon the road"
OF course 1t is not possible to have at will
the scenic environments and the elaborate
costumes and the merry-rnerry Will not
hunyrufile in to do an ensemble speciality,
but on the other hand there Is no necessity
OF paying premiums on tickets to the spec
ulators and the music can be enjoyed
time and again as long as its charm re-
mains fresh and appealing. Furthermore
many OF the numbers are carefully ar
ranged for dancing TO the modern step
pings and so II is possible for the possessor
and his or her friends to be their own
chorus.
Some Of the recent recordings are this
week considered. Some OF them are OF
pieces that are running right into the
warm spell" after n seasons success In
New York, and others are just opening their
career.
From Jerome Kern's VERY Good Eddie"
the Victor Military Band offers medley
one-step including the following lyrics
"tf Find the Girl" isn't II Great to Be
Married" "rd Like to Have a Million in
the Bank" and ION the Shore Mt lie Lei
Wi"
other Victor offerings are Around the
Map" medley fox-trot by Herman Flnck'
introducing Here Comes Tootsi,' When
the Right Girl Comes Along Some Sort
of Somebody" fox-trot from Very Good
Eddie" by Jerome Kern. introducing "Old
Boy Neutral" Babes In the Wood Some
Sort of Somebody" and the Princess Pat
waltzes (victor HerberD, by the Victor
Dance Orchestra, introducing Love Is Best
of All" allies" Two Laughing Irish
Eyes" "Neapoltan Love Song" and "All
for You"
From "sybil," Joseph cawthorn sings
for the Victor "I Can Dance with Every
body But My wife" and ITS Small
World" Mr. Cawthorn, in spite of the fact
that he has a long list of brilliant successes
behind him. has probably made the hit or
his life in "Sybil" that melodlous and high
ly entertaining comedy In which he Ia
Jointly starring with Julia Sanderson and
Donald Brian. And the bright particular
spot in the production is Cawthorn,s song,
"G Can Dance with Everybody But My
Wife"
"They Didn't Believe Me-" from "The
Girl from Utah" is such an excellent fox
trot that You can be glad they wouldn't
believe her so the lady had excuse for this
public plalnt Princes orchestra acting
for the Columbia Company, has played 1t
to the best possible advantage and thou
sands of people will enjoy 1t.
"Some Sort of Somebody" by Kern. one
Of the stellar hits OF the unusually successful
Very Good Eddie" is the type of song
that will appeal to every sort of some.
body A tenor duet II Is sung with effect
nv n striking conibination-Grace Nash and
Edgar Stoddard
It's nobody's business where Robinson
Crusoe went with Friday on Saturday
night, but Al Jolson, as an up.to.date,
Sophisticated and insinuating Friday. has
been tantaliznR Winter Garden audiences
for an entire season with a suggestion OF
mystery.
'Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with
Friday on Saturday Night?" Is n new Co
lumbia record, and It's sung by Al Jolson
of course.
It's one safe bet that wherever Robinson
Crusoe went on Saturday night he had the
fun creator that AL Jolson suggests he
was
From stop, Look and Listen" Walter
van Brunt and chorus sing Il Love
Piano" and Helen Clark and chorus sing
THAT Hula Hula" for Edison.
The first is "A typical Irving Berlin rag
time song. one of the song hits of the mu-
scal show, stop Look Listen" After
the first refrain piano solo is heard then
the vocal chorus completes the melody The
whole piece is written in that catchy syn
copated rhythm for which the composer is
famous.
The second is a weird sort of melody.
1t is a ragtime version Of the real Hawaiian
Hula music. Irving Berlin has written sew