The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-07
Liberty Theater.

Il0ef1y tuSAS0Vs
Mack's Musical Minstrels at TINS
COW little theatre are coming into their
own after having had a severe speii
| of sickness, which hit nearly every
member Of the company.
/ They present as their opening bill
| for this week, I'm Gay Coney Island,
| a musical comedy in which there are
many tuneful numbers, especially the
song rendered by Miss Isabelle Rene.
entitled, Beneath the Autumn Moon,
| in which this little lady was able to
| reach the high notes for the first time
while here, as she. too. mas peeh d
| sufferer from the cold.
| Miss Virginia Serar, and a new
conner, Miss Kitty Boyer. were both
| well applauded in their song numbers.
and the sister act song and dance OF
Miss Esther and Miss Ellen Swanson
| was well liked.
| The two funny comedians, Mr. Billy
| Clifton, assisted by Mr.. Jack Lelnar.
also seemed to have gotten their stride.
as witnessed by the applause.
/ Miss Ella Harris, as usual. is a big
act with her beautiful butterfly dance
and her iron jaw act, and is well worth
seeing.
The added attraction. "The BILLY La
Celles,'' are certainly unique in their
act. Mr.. La Celle, who holds tho
worlds championship medal for ex-
temporaneous song making and sing
ing, asked the audience to give him
suggestions. and received the fol-
lowing: Hot Dog Navy Sausage.
There Will Be a Hot Time in Louis
Vile Tonight, Beans, Four Roses, Bed
Bug" and others too numerous to
mention. He made up verse on these
absurd suggestions and sung them in
less than two minutes They will re-
peat today and tonight, changing
Wednesday matinee.
| Gladys Brockwel1 is to appear at the
Pastime theatre next Sunday in a pic
turized version Of the stage success,
1.-The Strange Woman" which ran for
an entire season on Broadway. The
production was written by William ).
Hurlbut and was later novelized by
Sydney Mccall, more than 100000
copies of the book being sold.
The story has to do with marriage
and free love. The picture presents
many marriages for what they are
and elects a striking contrast between
a woman who refuses to be shackled
to a man, even though she is desper-
ateIy in love with him, and other wo-
men who have been bound by we'd
ding ceremony.
In Ohlsons Liberty Girls Company
we find big departure from the class
Of shows that have been offered in
Pensacola Of late. "A legitimate
comedy with Opera Boufe was the
offering at the Mondays matinee, en-
titled THE Hawaiian Butterfly Es-
ipecially good was Burt Southern in his
acrobatic dance. The singing and
dancing number Of the Gibson Sisters
entitled 1.-The Honolulu Tomboys" was
greeted with applause. Miss Leone
Abbott was very pleasing to her au-
dience with her Hula Hula Lu" song
assisted with the chorus, but we would
like to hear her in a number that sh 9
renders alone. The Liberty Quar-
tette, which, by the way. has a good
yodler with them, was well liked. This
| company makes an innovation in the
fact that their finales are big. The
audiences have been in the habit Of
/ leaving their seats as soon as they
think the final number is being sung.
| With the Liberty Girls Company this
is a mistake as they have a very
strong finale and one in which the plot
of the play is explained SO the public
is kindly requested to remain seated
until the drop of the curtain. The
management is somewhat disappoint-
ed in the fact that the troupe. on ar
irving here, did not have the adver-
; tised number of people, the explana-
ton given that they lost four girls
trough sickness and that they had
; some on their way to replace those
who had left, but if the others that
are expected are like the two that
they put on at the last two perform
ances we are sorry for them. One alb
solutely could not move at all and it
was abvious that the middle chorus
girl was new to the business. then
again they have a Juvenile actor
which Manager Hopgood was abliged
to keep out Of the show on account
of the age limit as required by the
child labor law of Florida. They will
> repeat today and tonight changing
Wednesday matiness to Unsettled
w GATHER" farce comedy, and we
. trust that they will improve al