El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-19
FOLLIES FIRST
SHOW SUCCESS
Over Garden Wall Is Full
Of Lively Wit and
BRIGHT SONGS.

/ over the Garden Wall scored a de-
cided success for the Ed Redmond
FolIes company Sunday in its first
appearance in the present engage
ment at the Crawford theater. The
house was filled for both matinee and
night performances and the people
applauded in a way that made plain
how well they were pleased.
While you may have seen the show
somewhere else under another name.
you have never seen IL in FL Paso I'M
der any name and If Mr. Redmond
keeps giving his patrons the same
type Of shows with the same high
grade cast he is certain Of a success
ful Ell Paso engagement.
The company puts on a well bal
anced show. well costumed and
staged. It is full OF dash and spirit
from first to last. The acting is good
and the singing better and there is a
pretty chorus whose singing and
dancing lend great deal 10 the per
Torrance as a whole. The costumes
are light, airy and positively fetch
ing
There is q husband dissatisfied with
MS wife because Of her poor house
keeping and good dressing and his
neighbOr who is dissatisfied with his
wife because of her personal untidi-
ness, though she is a good cook Their
experiment at trading wives IS the
story Of the show. Ed Redmond and
Miss BObbie Deane form one couple
and Joe kemper and Miss Marvin
Hammond the other. All play up to
the minute and their quartet song.
Goodbye, Betty" the finale Of the
first act. is one Of the hits Of the
performance.
In addition TO her role. Miss Deane
appears twice in extra musical num-
bers. in the first act with the song
Katy" which brought her one en-
core after another and in the second
act in military dance which went
just as big.
She goes out Of her way 10 spoil
her good looks in the Katy" song
without improving the situation any.
As for the other specialties. Ed
Young won applause with his song.
Bull. Bull. Bull while Miss Irene
Noblitt scored with I'm Old Enough
for a Little Lovin'." and sweet Ba-
bette" Joe Kemper sang Some
Ones More Lonesome Than You" and
Just Girl and Boy" while Miss
White With Daisies" and Ny Old
Irish Rose" One Of the real hits was
Hoyt Smythe's song. Girls" with
the chorus furnishing local atmos-
phere- Mr. Young and the chorus
sang Dancing on the Moonlit Sand,
ENAAe-7AaAAA-1 AAAE AaLAANAAAe III AaLAu a-1
a singer Mr.. Young is splendid
dancer - and Messrs. Young and
Smythe did a very clever clog in an
other number. Their dancing is high
class.
over the Garden WalT' is espe-
cially well orchestrated and in the
overture Bert Beyerster's violin play
ing is featured. He also introduced
4 novelty instrument for accompany
ing soliists. a combination horn and
violin producing a tone about half
way between a violincello and a saxo-
phone. Harry Beyerstedt. brother Of
Bert. is the musical director OF the
show and seems TO be as capable a di-
rector as his brother is efficient on
The violin
With the beginning OF the Red !
nond engagement. the Crawford viii !
-eturn TO the custom OF having We'd /
lesday matinees as well 8 on Satur |
lays and Sundays. and all seats will |
le reserved for all performances. IN |
,luding matinees. The company will /
only change bills every Sunday.