Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-01
MERRY MERRY CAPER
ON RUNWAY AT WALNUT
Hello People" a Real Revue,
With Silk Fleshings and Tai
cum Powder for Wardrobe


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perorttloii III VolUihE ms preparedness
pea III the Mluule west ne had slmul-
taneous anu uhsuspiclohed support
thousanu ililes thehce' at no other place.
gen'ie reauer Oh theatIlcal reviews than
the historic walnut mere at aeceht
ihterVal prlor TO mldnlght the tout en-
semoie OF Hello People Vocalized a con-
certed thale to the purport that in case
or war every man present would be
shouldering gun OF the United states
OF George washington, Abraham Lincoln
and woodrow Wilson all of whom were
shown on a screen framed by the inn
mortal banner OF George NJ. Conan,
Francis Scott Key and Joseph Rodman
Drake.
The finale dispatched The large and en-
thusiastic audience to It's beauty sleep
so aglow with patriotism that the nucleus
of cordial reception awaits the VIII
sonian eloquerce here. But be all that
as 1t may there was no preparedness at
the Walnut for the doings of last night.
To be sure, revue" had been adver-
tised but you know you ca. advertise
anything as anything you want in the
atrcals where the pure food pure drug
and pure morals statutes do not prevail.
Not that the morals were grossly sub
verted in Hello, People, or that the
interval before midnight was the only
decent thing about it. Nothing that could
offend scrupulous tastes nourished on the
Follies, the movies and the varieties
would be included if the management
would follow our advice and cut out the
Peepng Tom episode of the Palm Beach
bathhouse scene. 'Tis old stuff, anyhow,
and Tim O'Leary, wasn't it? forced eX-
clusion of a similar passage from the
waltz Dream" And really a few oI
the lines-a very iew-were not so nice
as they might be for young persons to
IN ~
stock against them.
Though jealous as conservators of pub
lie morals, both of the young and those
old enough to know better we are not
at all prudish; hence register no objec-
tion to the runway with its gaily and
lightly caparisoned ladies of the chorus
capering up and down its length, and
rather startling some bald-headed per-
sons directly below, so that roseate hues
suffused pates long unused to blush. In
fact, or rather the fact of the runway
proved that we were present at a genu-
inc dyed-in-the-silk revue. We rather
preferred the talcum powder which some
of the girls wore in preference to flesh
ings as being closer to nature and the
human FORM the divinity of which was
celebrated by those passionate lovers OF
beauty, the'Greeks, There was absolute
ly nothing offensive about 1t, and 1t is
well recognized that lasclViously placed
garter is more suggestive than all the
bare knees in pony ballet
The runway was not the sole hallmark
of revue in Hello People a title
reminiscent by the way of show OF
yesteryear, for it had the big audience
usual at Follies ana Fassihs SHOWS.
There was more real money IN the walnut
than the box onlce mas counted up LOT
"A long tme' ana hoDody VINO palu wasted
money TOT TINS BlrlS, swiftly, N"IllS
hurly-burly OF song, dance costume ana
specialties Whlch leapeh mo Ii,liheulate
popularity me tSplcal Iainlly huui- ,'g.
ence' was pleasen ny lHoSt every % I tn'ilH
ana even lhe Jaueu reviewer oI many nan,
SHOWS hau TO recosii,Ie I, t'G Iresn IIoh
looks of young ana llVelS ehorus WRleh