The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
LYRICS SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS BILL
VERY ATTRACTIVE
Special Christmas Day Matt,
nee Will Be Featured.
Unusually Attractive
Bill for the Week

An unusually attractive programme
Of Keith vaudeville Will feature Christ
mas week at the Lyric and a special
Christmas matinee will be held on
Christmas day. Already many reser-
vations have been made for the
Christmas performances and the big
gest week in the history of the Lyric
is anticipated
The entertainment will be furnished
by some of vaudeville's cleverest err
tertainers and in addition the latest
views of the Halifax. N. s., disaster
will be shown in pictures. These pic
lures were made not at the outbreak
of the explosion but during and after
1t. They show the real fire and
destruction and the suffering that fol-
lowed in the wake of the terrible ca
tastrophe.
The vaudeville features that will
entertain during the present week in
clude "a Night in Honolulu" lavish
and pretentious musical and song
! show; Rita Gould, a singing beauty,
| in a gorgeous revue of songs and
| amaging gowns; "Tarzon," the wisest
chimpanzee in the world; Leonard and
Willard in "Outside the Inn and
| Harry A. Meyers novelty minstrels
with a joyous medley of nonsense song
and dancing.
| On the. programme for the first half
| of the week, which will be the at
| fractions Christmas, there will be "a
| Night in Honolulu" Rita Gould, Tar
zon," the wonderful chimpanzee; Ar
cher and Ward in their own comedy
offering, 1--WE Both Are" and Alfred
Farrell and company, the artist and
the girl, a unique and artistic novelty.
"a Night in Honolulu" pretentious
music. girl and dance show. will be
one of the feature attractions for the
first half of the week and this is an
act that has caused unstinted praise
all along the southern vaudeville CIR
cult. In this number are featured
some of vaudeville's we'll known sing
ers and comedians among them being
Carl Armstrong, Hilda Merkel, AL Bar
| low, Esther Merllel and Edward Page.
| Another unusually attractive act OH
the first half weeks bill will be Rita
Gould, renowned singer, in a song
revue, featuring some amazing and
attractive costumes Miss Gould Is
among the famous entertainers of
/ vaudeville. Tarzon, the wonderful
| chimpanzee, is the third extra added
attraction on the bill for the first half
of the week and the special Christ
mas day performance. This chimpanzee
| performs marvellous feats and in many
respects appears to be able to do al
most anything that a human being
| performs Az
/ The bill for the last half of the
week will be featured by Leonard AMI
| Willard. They are entertainers extra
| ordinary and the musical accompani-
ments to their entertaining capers is q
feature Harry A. Meyers and his min
| strels will be anoths-. feature the last
| half of the week. These talented per-
| formers are. clever singers, dancers and
comedians anc the act is one of vau-
| deville's big a fractions. Other attrac-
ktons on the i'll for the last half of
] the week include McNally. Dinus and
DeWolff in Walking Good" the Me-
| Intyres, Americas premier marksmen,
1 and John Clark and company in a
comedy novelty. Mutual news pictures
showing the latest scenes of the Hal
| flax disaster, will feature the Christ.
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