The sun., 1919-06-24
NOTHING SUCCEEDS
LIKE A FAILURE
The "0versea Revue" Shows
How Boiling Down Helps
Musical Skits.
NOW IT'S A REAL HIT
Will Cressy and Blanche Dayne
Also Win Approval in
New Playlet.

Putting a revamped legitimate pro-
|'duction into vaudeville has something
Of the quality Of lighting at the Marne-
It can turn defeat into victory. ''Toot
lSweet," the musical show, when pro-
duced by Will Morrissey at the Princess
Theatre few weeks ago, exploded like
myth. When presented at the Palace
Theatre yesterday in a condensed form
It made a decided hit. Just as though
Joffre and Foch had been working on 1t
Tho original cast including the
chorus. has been retained, but the title
has been changed into the Overseas
Revue" apparently with the view OF
giving the production a new start in
life and allowing it to live down It's
past. Elizabeth Brice with her songs
and her dances with Clarence Nord-
strom, Will Morrissey with his humor-
GUS impromptus and his scenes with
Lon Haskell. and May Boley with her
buriesque of a movie vamp and a grand
opera star certainly succeeded in throw
Ing hard luck or the trail. Their
melange of the stunts with which they
entertained the boys at the front and
their military numbers even seemed TO
divert the attention of the audience
from the fact that peace had at last
been declared upon them.
By Its reduction to the lowest possi-
BILE terms Of vaudeville-and IL Is still
quite long at that--the tabloid musical
comedy moves with more vim, though
1t doesn't have to hop around the map
in France as much as In the unabridged
version. But 1t seems as IL a couple of
the more amusing numbers, such as a
travesty of an operate sextet, had
been mistakenly left in Gains ware
house. However. 1t earned its place as
the headline act and was greatly en-
Joyed by the audience. including the
Duncan sisters OF She's Good Eel
low who sat quite Economically
among the common people
Another act which met with the APP
prevail Of the Duncan sisters was the
playiet The Man Who Remembered. +"
which brought VIII NJ Cressy and
Blanche Dayne back to Broadway, after
a years service issuing a full ration OF
smiles TO the doughboys with the Over
There Theatre League. Besides giving
Sn easily assimilated assortment OF
humor and pathos in this sketch from
his own headpiece Mr.. Cressy later de-
livered an entertaining talk on how the
war appealed to his sense OF humor.
A third number which brought a
breath Of the old shindig to the bill was
the dancing Of Emma Haig with q new
partner in the person Of Jack waldron,
who lately Joined in a little close har-
mony with the Seventy-seventh Division
up against the Hindenburg line. The
Duncan sisters gave the distinguished
service cheer for this. Al Herman sang
and told diverting secrets about the rest
OF -he performers-the- Duncan sisters
liked him. Gibson Ohrman, the Ameri-
can prima donna soprano, with a Chinese
pianist. sang classical selections that
got by with the Duncan sisters. Need
more be said?
At the Riverside the Avon Comedy
-Four, Whiting and Burt, Laurie and
Bronson, Valerie Bergere and the will
ton sisters were observed in a highly
vivacious state. The New Brighton.
inasmuch as II was starting to celebrate
its tenth anniversary week. had all 1t
could do TO contain the sparkle of Alan
Brooks in his sketch. Dollars and
Sense; Henry Lewis, Mckay and Ar
dine. Herbert Clifton and kiss Me-" a
musical comedy without reserve.