The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-01
MARIE DRESSLER Is
BACK IN VAUDEVILLE
Heads Palace Bill After Two
Years Of Patriotic Cam
paigning.
JACK NORWORTH RETURNS
Van and Schenck Playing a
Double Week-Other News
of the Varieties.

Tho Palace Theatre started the week
yesterday with a bill of such all around
excellence one remained clear through
to the water lions. Marie Dressler. OF
course, made the big dent on the boards.
She came back to vaudeville after two
years spent In Liberty Loan campaigns
and in proving to soldiers. sailors and
marines that the Government could fur
nish them with some mighty fine enter
tainment at $40 a month.
Miss DRESSER, having used her voice
against the Germans right up to the
day when they couldn't stand 1t any
longer. decided It was time she gave
a benefit for the public--and incidentally
restore her purse to q robust condition
A large reception committee filled the
house to welcome her back. and turned
her promenading on the stage into
victory parade.
Miss DRESSER amused with a song
illustrative OF the woes of q negro
soldier whose heart was made for war,
though his feet weren't. She revived
hci favorite method Of burlesque, re-
producing q classic dance as 1t might
be done by a person built on a whole
sale scale. Miss Dressler's proportions
fitted equally we'll into a representation
OF grand opera sung with the muffler
cut out Merriment also reigned when
Miss DRESSER portrayed the heroine In
a modern problem play. and when she
had done with him 1t was evident there
wasn't a Palace patron who thought
there was anything to this Mr.. Ibsen.
some Pounds Of LauEhter.
AS with every one else who went into
the armed forces of the country. the ser
vice seems to have filled her out more. IL
such a thing can be said of Miss Dress
Ter. She made every pound count. II
laughter Is any criterion she must weigh
at least a ton. Miss Dressler still wears
her hair high and her voice practically
anywhere.
Jack Norworth contributed the light
weight side OF the programme. The au-
dience just missed having him play a
saxophone to them as novelty. for
, whenever he finished a song and turned
toward the instrument the applause al
ways forced him to turn back to sing an
encore--and the day was saved. His
new material. including ION His First
Day Home" and "Mm--and That's Not
ALL" caused the applause to become cpl
demic. For what he called an ZAP
plause finish." similar to that which
comes when r'or act winds UP with
a display OF I'll, flag, Norworth an
nounced he woul,l bring on his child
and then led OK. one of the pickaninnies
on the bill.
jar. Mendelssohn Arrives.
Sheiia Terry in '"Three's a Crowd" a
musical romance with agreeable melodies
by William b. Friedlander. put on
another act over which the spectators
seemed willing to raise blisters on their
hands from clapping. Assisted by Ber
Bard and Gattison Jones. Miss Terry
| brought Liszt and Mendelssohn into the
varieties In person. revealing what they
missed by being born a century before
time toe dance. The voice Of this new
nothing TO put on photograph, but
she is quite capable of bearing the hrunt
OF her act on her knees.
A surprise attack was engineered by
Van and Schenck, who took the place OF
Franklin Ardell, laid Up by one OF those
colds which 80 often attack actors who
expose themselves constantly 10 ap-
plause. The singing pair proved as
popular as ever with their new act
which included song about the way
in which the cootie inspired shaking the
sh!mmy.
This team. together with Bert WILL
Jams, Gibson Ohrman, Lillian Shaw ant
the Ford sisters, formed one OF thos,
all star bills at the Riverside without
which that house finds II cannot struggle
along from week to week. At the