The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
JOSIE FLYNN'S
 MINISTRIES !: COME
 TO LOEW'S BDOO
Eddie Ross, Blackface, and Jimmy Britt, Ex-Light- weight Champion, on .
 Weeks Bill

A big all-star programme will be ot- fered at the Bijou theatre the first halt of the coming week, with five excep tional acts, each worthy of stellar hon ors.
 A big attraction will be Grace Car lisle and Julesa Romer in an artistic classic called Just a Song at WI light" The act has h pretty and et- fective setting, and Miss Carlisle ana
 Mir. Romer have displayed splendid judgment in the numb bers that make up their programme, using those that are popular to all, high class, yet popular and not ragtime. Miss Carlisle IS charming, beautiful young woman ana Mir Romer is a wonderful violinlst, anu their act has quality, mellow chaini and refreshing something which dl- ferentiates it from any other act seen here this season.
 "Blackface" Eddie Ross, for five years one of the features with Neil OBrleh 5 minstrels. will be another headIiner on the programme. His songs ana talk' most of which are original with hlm'
 are harmoniously beautiful, ana ms dances are typical of the gatherings of our .darkies" during the holiday times. VI, Marie Walsh. pretty, vivacious llt- tle maid. and Irving Edwards, sprightly. we'll dressed, good looking 1 youngster, will present their dellsht- ful skit with melodies and dances called At the Ball.
 Among other acts will be Hill -Acker- man, in which sensat. -9al'siii anu | comedy vie with each other for head 1 line honors, and the Futchies, in clown | comedies and knockabout acrobats. The | photoplay is Virginia Pearson. l In answer to the popular appeal to 1 have Josie Flynn and her Minstrel | Maids return to the Bijou, the manage ment has booked the act in for the last
 half of tho week, when she will De the | headliner. This is the greatest girl
 minstrel act in vaudeville, with nine | of the daintiest and cleverest maidens. l Miss Flynn, the owner and producer Of | the act is the best known minstrel | girl in the country, and the writer or all the material used in the act Her act to be presented at the BlJou IS en- l tirely new and fresh and different from | trat presented last season, but as be- l fore only two of the girls blacken up, and the other seven are real peaches,
 the pick Of the orchard,
 | Another big headliner on the pro- l gramme will be Jimmy Brit, one of the | finest little fighters mat ever drew a f, glove, former lightweight champion Of l the world, and hero or many enCouH- ters in the days when fighters really
 had to fight. Britt is of the old school of fighters, rated as an old man as 1 things go pugilistically, yet still pos l sesses virile youth and ability. Britt | possesses considerable histronic abil- ity, and his tales of the prize ring
 never fail to win laughs. In addition | to this Britt will offer his celebrated recital in prize ring costume During the war Britt taught boxing at vari- GUS camps in and around New York and before we entered the war was em- ployed by the government of Australia to teach the soldiers how to train and
 box.
 Other acts will be Christie and Ben nett, comedians, in original wit and sayings; Lowry and Katherine, dainty little girl and dapper young chap in a medley of song, dances and com edy called 'The Razor Salesman; Alvarez Duo, sensational aerial ano acrobatic originalities.
 The photoplay will be Bert Lytell 1T
 Tn Faith" a great photodrama.