The sun., 1919-09-16
JAZZ IN FESTIVAL
WEEK AT PALACE
Frisco Tops Bill With Loretta
McDermott and Stars in
limitations.
WELCOME Is RESTRAINED
Cameron Sisters and Pat Roo
ney Head Excellent River
side Programme.

, The jazz cult can have a festival week
at the Palace, for the current bill reveals
all forms of this orgy style of music
in uniform as well as civilian clothes
OF course. such programme has to
be topped by Frisco, who claims to have
been one of the first to teach the world
In syllables of jass.
Frisco frisks about with agile Loretta
McDermott, doing the dances that have
made him and his cigar famous from the
east side of Broadway to the west side
His limitations of Pat Rooney, George
White, Ruth st. Denis and others
ELECTED yesterday the usual splash of
applause and in some OF them he seemed
to shake and wabble and have terp-
sichorean ague generally better than the
originals. He was abetted by incessant
nervous music from his own jazz band.
Even Anna Wheaton and Harry Car
roll. held over for a second week in
their joint song recital, couldn't escape
the tug of jazz at their heartstrings and
vocal cords. Miss Wheaton shivered
through song the purport of which was
| that the Quakers themselves were uuak-
ing to syncopated tunes She warbled
in addition that sour grapes summed
up those who despised jazz and the
| shimmy, implying that their appreciation
would be keener IL their shoulder blades
were more flexible. But one prefers to
believe that the audience gave a warmer
! reception to her numbers which were
| immune to jazz because they liked
| melodies that were given without SO
much muscular agitation.
In fact-whisper 1t through the high
| ways-excellent as the jazz turns were
in their way, the patrons yesterday gave
/ them surprisingly restrained welcome,
| considering how inveterate theatregoers
| are expected to turn purple and hectic at
| a performance of quivering music and
| irresponsible feet. The friendly but luke
warm recognition granted such capable
organization as the LAKELAND Naval
Octette, every one of whom is able to
| sing and perform on an instrument,
arouses the alarming suspicion that the
| muse of jazz has one foot in the grave.
Can the waning enthusiasm for 1t be due
| to the chill in the air, or has prohibition
actually got us by the legs?
Prohibition came In for amusing treat
ment from Rae Samuels when she sang
THE Great American Desert" descrip-
l tive of the pyramids of Broadway"
| since the sprinkling cart replaced the
tea and cocktail wagon. Another origi-
nal number that brought favor to her
was wait Till You Get I'm in the
Clouds. Boys" explaining the advantages
| of proposing in an airplane, where the
girl can't walk out on the principal
monologist.
AT the Riverside the Cameron Sisters.
breaking even on the headline honors
with Pat Rooney. danced back into the
hearts of the uptown family trade.
which seems to have been restless since
the sisters grew up for a year in mu-
steal comedy. Others on the bill were
Walter C. Kelly, the company presenting
the musical tabloid kiss Me-" Homer
Dickinson and Oracle DEACON in chin
ming, songs and dances, and Lee Kohl
mar and confederates in Two Sweet
hearts," a sketch by Samuel Shipman
and Clara Lippman, which was staged
by Louis Mann with his collar off.
A company at the Columbia headed
by Jay Herman and Eddie Kane pre-
scented a new two act burlesque, THE
Doll Hospital" and in nine scenes and
innumerable costumes carried the spec
tators to different parts of the world and
the heights of ecstasy