The sun., 1919-10-21
WILKIE BARD DROLL
IN SPITE OF COLD
British Music Hall Performer
Gets Hearty Welcome at
Palace.
DE MAREST MAKES HIT
Bee Palmer Shakes Herself All
Over Bill for Riverside
Audience.

Regardless of whether the peace treaty
Is actually in effect. the war may pe
said to have ended for vaudeville patrons
We st erday, since Wilkle Bard came from
England to the Palace, which signalizeu
the reopening OF International traHlc IN
the two day. This typical BRUSH
music hall performer. who comes with
the Endorsement of Premier Lloyd George
and the late Lord Kitchener, was mere
before, a number OF years past but al
though II was so long that he was prac-
tically~ a newcomer TO many Paiace
patrons, they hailed him at his entrance
like a brother
Mr. Bard appeared to have a cold and
was in bad voice, bu even with TINS
aside he did not yet seem to have caugnt
the idea that with American VaudeVlie
audiences a man must be loud 10 De
funny He appeared at times TOO M
cined to grow confidential with the man
acting as feeder" without taking the
audience into his confidence too. But
that will probably wear OF as his tour
progresses, and one can at least De
thankful that his voice wasn't choked
with accent.
His Funny Method.
For the rest he possesses droll
method of inserting his points unobtru-
sively that Is bound to take with those
who don't really care for humor applied
with a sledgehammeT. Although ne
never used character dialect, watching
lin was like viewing figure from
~. w. Jacobs story in the flesh. and he
NH undoubtedly appeal to those who can
,till enjoy this English humorist after
n these years--and even buy the mag
ne in which his stories appear.
Mr.. Bard, who is described as Eng
] ands heudliner, made an entrance
chara cteristic OF the British music halls
| -lounging in after the curtain had been
! up for several seconds on setting OF a
railway station in Wases, with impos-
/ sible looking mountains in BACK ana
signs with impossible looking names m
front. In this sketch. entitled The
/ Welsh Railway Porter" there was much
/ amusement extracted from the Welsh
language. from railway tickets and from
a time table, which seems TO be the
most cosmopolitan thing on earth In its
possibilities fer jokes.
Mr. Bard won laughs in two other
tabloids, TIE Night Watchman" and
Roses Are Blooming" in which he i'm
personated a hoarse. elderly female who
wanted to sing like the girl next door
and is finally enabled to do so through
mesmerism--a stunt in which Mr.. Bard
practised an effective Illusion la TriIbU
though without exposing his feet &c
i stching cold from his voice.
Musical act l. nit.
William Dc Marest. appearing witt
Estene Colletta in Il violin and cell'
number. gave a sample on the othe
hand OF typical American humor, chat
ting, Kidding, dancing and attempting {
lump from his feet from reclining pc
sition, thereby doing one Of the funnies
hops seen In variety. Starting abso
lutely cold" the pair worked up tn
enthusiasm for their performance unit
, they had shown themselves one of tn
most diverting musical acts in vaudt
, VILE, and at the finish even the sophist
Gated gallery gods shrieked for ther
long after the curtain fell.
The rest of the bill, with VIII \
, Cressy and Blanche Dayne In an enjoy
able sketch by Mr.. Greasy called "Th
New Store; Mabel McCane. supporte
| in a smart song and dance revue by TOT
, Bryan, Lillian Broderick and William
, Taylor; Bailey and Cowan in '"rf
Banjoker and the Songster," and Krar
and La Sale in frivolous songs, got
= out OF its way to be excellent, and eve
q the topics of the day seem to make Il
extra effort this week TO be funny.
! At the Riverside Bee Palmer shak,
e herself loose all over the bill. Ruth Roy
I syncopates out OF sympathy. and Charl'
t Grapewln. assisted by Anna Chance
t "Jeds Vacation reveals how s!despi
;. ting domestiCity iS-on the stage.
e At the Columbia Edward Lee Wrotl
r returns TO the house after Ave year
d and he and the Twentieth Centui
e Maids. in a two act burlesque. hold hta
carnival