The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-24
alta BOY Is Big,
RECKLESS FROLIC
Capt. Frank Tinney Stays
Many Germans With Raz-
zor' at the Lexington.
PONY CHORUS A FEATURE
Each Was at Least 100 Pounds
of First Glass U. IS.
Fighting Man.


One OF the soldier boys from tne
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland,
who are presenting Alta Boy" at the
Lexington this week, confided to the
audience last night that the show was
whole lot funnier behind the scenes
than in front OF them. Ever see a
doughboy try to get into a girls
skirt ?" he asked. at sure is a circus
getting that pony chorus dressed"
The show was funny enough from
the front to set the house into peals
OF laughter. Frank Tinney was the
same old Frank, just as IL he hadn't
ever left the stage to be a Captain in
Uncle Sans army and been kidded
nearly to death by the Lambs and the
Friars and the Great White Way in
the process. And anybody who says
Frank isn't a brave soldier, though
losing none Of his w. * power over
the risibles OF an audience, is circu-
lating some pro-German ISLANDERS, for
he proved his courage and initiative
last night.
Didn't he-the coal black private
stationed with one Captain at a listen
ing post-didnt he, when he discov
and 900 Germans were swarming
into the trench where he and his Cap
tain We're. cast away his gun. pull out
two enormous razzers and set out to
open a barber shop In Berlin?
Did he succeed? He did. Such
bloody engagement ensued that in pity
for the audience Il merciful stage man
ager ordered the lights out, and when
the curtain of darkness was lifted
i there stood Frank and his Captain
with the ground and the embank-
ments and lonely tree in the dis
| lance simply Uttered with dead Ger
mans. And Frank. not at all proud,
merely wiped his dripping razzers on
his uniform and said:
! Mad and Merry show.
Cap, let's go away from hyar to
where it's lively"
1t was good show mad and
merry show, and Tinney wasn't all Of
! it. by any means. There was the pony
chorus of corporals and privates and
sergeants and cooks from the proving
camp, mighty and brawny lot, and
! the quick changes they made from
{ costume 10 costume CAUSED one really
! truly chlorine in the audience to Won
der how they did ii. II couldn't do it
| quicker myself" she said.
| Perhaps the best dance was the finale
of Act ., IN this the sixteen brawny
! warriors, none of whom could have
weighed less than a hundred and sixty
appeared in cunning fluffy pink and
white skirts, very short, with little
pulled white satin breeches and long,
very long white tights. Also decollete,
cry, as 10 bodice, and carrying chains
% pink and white roses. with which
they wove a maze around Nanette, the
premiere danseuse, whose high kicking
and graceful twirling were such as TO
evoke disquieting speculations as TO
whether Uncle Sam is wasting money
maintaining a ballet school at Aber-
deem.
The ballet also lived up to the best
Broadway traditions by hopping right
down into the midst OF the audience
and prancing up and down the aisles.
| and one particularly naughty chorus
girl co mortified nearly TO death q
nice modest baldheaded man who was
sitting there with his wife by tickling
him under his chin
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