New-York tribune., 1918-08-20
Zip, Zip, Yaphank'
Is Winner for Berlin

1t IS remarkable what the boys in
the army learn, besides how to lick
the Boch! For instance, there is a
youngster named Irving Berlin who
has been in the army only about three
months and who has learned so much
about music that he was able to write
whole show called "Yip, Zip, Yap-
nank, which was produced at the
Century Theatre last night. And he
Yates named Kuy Kendall, Bob Higgins.
Hughle Clark, Harry Green and Benny
Leonard, actors who are really as
good as many professionals.
The show opened with tambourine
drill in which enough soldiers appeared
to NIL the stage-and it takes a great
many to do that
Then Captain Paul McAllister ad-
dressed the boys and gave them words
of cheer to send them over the top.
Boys" he said, "the enemy IS out
there, right in front of you".no. he
didn't mean the critics-"but they are
'Kamarad' show them no mercy. Now
give it to EN-" And they did.
How they ever did it is marvel, but
then, as we said before, the boys learn
many things in the army. Privates
johnson. Brennan, Kline and Jorn sang
Silver Threads" and they had to re-
spond with dozen encores. It went
something like this:
Darling l am not too old,
There's no silver in the gold
| am only twenty three,
And the draft is after me-"
The first scene ended with a Dark
town wedding in which the bride, How
ard Friend, appeared considerably en-
barrassed. 1t was evidently his first
time at the altar.
There is duet called "Love Inter-
est" between Privates Brennan and
Bob Higgins. Higgins is the girl and
although he manages the chorus in q
remarkable falsetto, he was not what
one would call exactly convincing.
But the show girls. They were quite
too awful. Each appeared in gor-
geous costume, with his feet encased in
punk satin tango slippers, usually
size ten. and discolored. There was
a villainous looking one on the
end who said he had been o
plumber (and he looked like one).
chauffeur and the waiter. The one in
the centre with the crushed water
melon gown on was the only "beauty''
in the front row. He looked like Julian
Eltinge, but we should hate to tell
him So
Irving Berlin, the boy who wrote the
show, you know, was dragged out of
one Of the tents and made to sing a
song. He did very we'll for one un-
prepared (?). 1t was called "How !
Hate to Get Up in the Morning." and
he told all about how he was going to
kill the bugler and sleep all day and
then have himself appointed bugler
and then "kill the pup who wakes the
bugler up" He also said that after
the war he would "pack his suit away
and live in Phila-d el-phi-a"
Oh, yes! And by and by some of
the people from the "Zeigfeld Follies'
came up to help them out.
We can't decide which we like bet
ter, Private Bellies, who did Marilynn
Miller, Or Kuy Kendall, who did Ann
Pennington. The latter's performance
was one of the cleverest bits we ever
have seen anywhere, for Kuy looked
exactly like Ann-even to his (or herr
knees! And he wore long braids of
hair and fluffy frock and little white
satin slippers. And there was Frisco
and Lillian Lorraine and Eddie Cantor
a remarkably lifelike impersonation
done by Private Cutner, and there were
some Zegfeld beauties, who were not
so beautiful, and some ponies who
acted like draft horses, and "the Dolly
Sisters" and "Savoy and Brennan" and
everything