New-York tribune., 1919-05-29
Nariety's Golden Days

Variety's Golden Days
Sir Georgie Parker used to sing 81
can't resist you, sir at Tony Pastors.
Later she sang
I've been to gay Paree
The naughty sights to see:
When Pa and Ma were safe in bed
I'd paint the town bright, bright red.
"I've been to gay Paree,
high tldllly. ugh tee hee.
But now I'm home, no more to roam;
New lork's good enough for me-
Others who used to make nc sit up and
take notice were lmogene Conner with her
1.-The Ship | Love- Bessie Bonehill with
with "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me Bow
Wow (this was long before she introduced
her Poor John and "Waiting at the
Church,D, Helena Mora with THAT Is Love-
ana "Comrades.' Ford and Frances with
Bells of Fate Gilmore and Leonard with
their peculiar hare-hp impersonations and
their "We'l Sail for Ireland in the Morn
ing. Ben llamey. the originator of rag
time, with "Mr. johnson, Turn Ne Loose"
and many others. Sam Bernard. after sing
core with his Such Policeman Like
Never Never Nas,' and then would get real
serious and recitc "The Face on the Bar
Room Floor
they wear coats with differently tuned bells
concealed, and then each would gently tap
the other and produce I'm the Man who
Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo?
DO you remember Bunth and Rudd. the
hurlesque magicians, who messed eggs
flour. etc, in a Ugh hat, and had as catch
phrases "Marvellous" and From the Old
World Too They we're almost as messy
as Sparrow the jugglcr who had kids in
the gallery throw apples to him and he
caught them with a fork held in his mouth.
these we're good old days, weren't they?
W. J. s.
All, all arc gone, the old familiar head
liners But we recall all the acts mentioned
by W. J. S. except Vesta Victoras. who
perhaps did not visit the outlands in the
lS-karat days of vaudeville.
And most of the rapid fire comedian
teams used to begin their acts with some
thing like parody of the song W. ]. S.
quotes Part Of it ran
I've been to Chicago, too
The place where the wind blows THROUGH
And have you forgotten the vaudeville
act, asks Earnest Guy, "in which the IA her
and daughter keep talking about Jimmie
O'Brien and corned beef and cabbage and
afterward somebody did a roller skating
act?" No, haven't 1t was the Nawns
va" vi" chdI AT, ana we remember
having been about twice as long as it should
have been. a,s,. uxY
The Sprtuousncss of Independence
"'r' Inc spirit of independence is not dead
among us, though it becomes subtle and insnu
ntnr rather than assertive and boistcrous The
other evening convenient subterfupe: one cannot
he 100 specific as 70 time place. discovered
a nclghbor ransplanting some mint from tho
back hnc of his lot in Newtonve 10 a little bit
oil ground close TO his back porch steps and
almost concealed thereby. Thus does he discree,Iv
defy impending chaos and concentrate the sourc,
OF supply. do not know what is in his celiar
e ELWEli.
The Presidents speech ir honor Of Dr.
Pessoa contained high percentage of
unnecessary veries q am very clad:
leel very much at home; in very real
sense; very great exhiaration; very de-
lIghtful; very interesting; very closely"
Mr.. David Lawrence has spoken of the
Presidents advisers, but the Presidents
like most Of us open-minded persons. takes
no advice. Our advice to him. renoatod
for years, to dc-vcry his speeches. goes
unhecded. Very, as Mr.. Wilson
uses it, is what Col. Roosevelt used 70
call a weasel word
Leninc's Foes Must Set Up Stable Pulc
Tribune headline
At last F. l.. B. comments, n little
horse sense.
new straw hat has pleasant
fragrance, too, but nothing ever has such
a new smell as a new DERBY.
Mr. '" j. Bryan, beginning week from
sunday viii 20 on tour in advocacy Of
dry world. The trouble, as has been
sald with such prohibitionists Is that "a
soon ms they make the world dry for de-
mocracy they will start to proparnndize
other planets.
they'll have troH BILE in Mars and Venus.