Palisadian., 1917-05-12
Dou,r,-Stage
Riverside Theater-
By D. R. Noble

With the Foy brigade, under COM
mand of General Eddie Fitzgerald
Foy; Homer B. Mason and Marguerite
Keller; Pat Rooney and Marion
Bent and Van and Schenck, the show
at the Riverside Theater is assured
its full quota of distinguished Keith
players. The Foy crowd are now
appearing in "The Old Woman in the
Shoe," gladstone travesty on the
old fable by George V. Hobart and
William Jerome, the affair is purely
and simply a medium for genuine
Foy hilarity. Homer 3. Mason is
famous as comedy inebriate, while
Marguerite Keller is blonde and
pretty and splendid foil for Mason
in the little playet Married" by
Porter Emerson Browne. In re.
sponse to the many requests of its
patrons, the Riverside has acquired a
Pat Rooney Marion Bent engage
ment. Van and Schenck, vaudeville's
own songsters, will come back and
fulfill an important spot on the pro-
CRANE. The remainder of the bill is
capably upheld by Maleta Bonconi,
celebrated European violin virtuoso;
Stan Stanley, that droll bouncing fell
low in his little skit; Frank Crummit,
versatile player with an ingratiat-
ing style; Maize King, assisted by
E. E. Marini, in her own dance crea-
tions and the Riverside Current News
Pictorial.
-Alhambra Theater-
Vaudeville's vim, vigor and YER
satility will be represented in bril-
liant show OF supreme hilarity at
Keth's Alhambra Theater this COM
ing week. Those clever character
players Bert Kalmar and Jessie
Brown will divide headline honors
with Gigby Bell, the great comedian.
Galmar and Brown offer their own
elaborate scenic production Nursery
Land" in which they introduce them
selves in the guise of Mother Goose"
characters. 1t is an exquisite novelty.
Digby Bell has leading role in the
one-act play Mind your own Busi-
ness" Gene Greene, characterizer of
popular songs; Violet Dale, giving
her remarkable impressions of cur
rent Broadway stars; Frank Crum-
init, versatile player; Hooper and
Marbury in "Fads and Frolics," a
sumptuously staged dancing novelty;
the Two Cartons; Dunbar's Darkies
and Helen Jackley are the remand
er of the features on the bill. The
Alhambra Current News Pictorial
wildly depicts the news of the sec
ond on the screen.
Colonel Theater Vaudeville
Adele Rowland, that exquisite, ar
tistic little star of song and play,
will offer a repertoire of songs and
story-songs as headliner de luxe of
the Colonel Theater program. Her
numbers are we'll chosen and are put
over with ability-an ability coupled
with magnetism, charm, intellect and
good taste. Sidney Franklyn ably
assists her at the piano. Francis
Dooley and Corinne Sales, those pet
children Of the great Keith vaude-
vile family, have just returned from
a successful season in England. Their
batch of nonsensicalities are this
time termed "Will yer Jim?" and are
as farcical as their previous act
"That's Silly" Miss Jane Connolly
has an equally meritorious sketch in
her new vehicle "Betty's Courtship."
capital musicians from the concert
stage will give their little musical
poem "Just a song at Twilight" :"
'That rascal" Loney Haskell, the
celebrated character monologue come
dian; Emmett j. Welch with his COM
pany of eight in "a Minstrel Re-
vision; the Three Bobs, jovial Jug
. glers; Sylvester and Vance, in a
Asatirical comedy with songs entitled
sect out of the Theater," by Willard
Mack; the renowned lady juggler
Selma Braatz and the Current News
Pictorial are the others on highly
diverting and diversified program.