The Washington herald., 1919-06-23
SUNDAY THEATER OPENINGS
shubert-Garrick-Garrick Players
In "Whaes Your Husband p.oings -
By EARLE DORSEY,

shubert-Garrick-G Player.
In "Whaes Your Husband Doing :,
By EARLE DORSEY.
Earle Foxe. Eileen Wilson and
Lynne overmann. In conjunction with
the weil-known firm of Hokum a.
Jazz. staged a pretty fine cabaretty
number at the Garrick, last night.
with words by George v. Hobert and
music oy the Garrick Jazz orchestry.
II was entitled Whats Your Hus-
band Doing?" which is no title at ali
for cabaret show wherein the or
chestra leader does trick fiddline and
q young man sings about North Caro-
lima where THE old Bull Durham
sur-rows." and beautiful young
woman gets the house crazy trying
to make her carol some more,
However,
This play-the fourth on the Car
rick Players ist-got under way to
fast start at $50 o'clock last night,
almost choked in the first act on too
much talk but Strengthened out into
high for the second act, which marked
the peak of the performance. It's a
play not unlike Good Morning,
Judge" and its plot is fully as COM
pelling as the plot of that notun-
successful vehicle.
Earle Foxe and Lynne Overmann,
the Garrick heavenly twins, appeared
as two divorce lawyers whose wives
suspected them of too intimate asso-
citation with correspondents wearing
Mary Garden perfume. Through a set
of circumstances none too probable,
the attorneys meet at a roadhouse
called the "Honeysuckle Inn" where
the management serves drink called
THE Honeysuckle Dream"
Foxes client is a young woman -
Eileen Wilson-and Overmann's client
Is her husband-that's Jimmy Dyren-
forth-and after Wife drinks a hon
eysuckle dream" she passes to
roseate Authorizations from which
neither attorney can awake her. To
make matters worse, the house and
all therein is pinched and carried be-
fore justice of the peace who, after
dismissing Lawyer Foxe, who is also
a justice of the peace in the same
county, requests his erstwhile pris-
oner to hear the rest of the cases.
Naturally this brings the attorney to
the point where he must pass judg-
ment upon his wife and his partner }
wife, as the two wives were staging
a little surprise dinner for their nus
bands at the same resort when the
police came.
Now. really. there's no use talking
further about this plot. We hate to
think what it might be like il it
wasn't for Earle Foxes dolorous
despair. for Lynne Overmanns comedy
and Eileen Wilson's clinging vine
Characterization. Frankly. this trio
is making stock history in Washing
ton and they make a good evening S
entertainment out Of something that
is hardly a play.
But that's not all. The Garrick di-
rector. with some capable mana gerial
help, has staged a jass number In the
second act that only needs q little
likker served to the customers in the
audience to become a regular S:30-to-
closing cabaret attraction. Young
Bruce Healy, as a trick violinist,
scored one of the evenings hits ana
Walter Morrison and Rita Romilly
| sang some songs that forced them to
come back for several encores. Miss
Romilly also was one of the high
lights of the dramatic end of the
performance.
Edward Robinson appears this week
as a jay chief of police. Gus Glass
mire will probably pep up his dialect
little more during the week and meb-
be show him how to spit. too. The cast
includes a name or two that are new
to this deponent and that category
also includes the two aforementioned
singers. Others are Jack Sheppard
and Walter Buckner. These players
all accepted their parts capably as
did Dolores Ramon. Leah Winslow.
Rose Macdonald and Frank Peck.
The Garrick jass band ran true to
form and earned several rounds OF
applause in the orchestra pit but that
jass orchestra stages a second-act
number that shouldn't be missed.