The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
ALL-STAR BILL OF
 KEITH VAUDEVILLE
 AT LYRIC THEATRE
Basil Kings Novel, ''The Street Called Straight" In Pictures Is Photo
 play Offering


 With bill that has been received by reviewers as an aIl-star attraction, tne Lyric for the last 1art cf the week offers Ave acts equal to any vaudeville pro lgramme extaft, m the oplnion oI the management, any one ol them peHiS pointed lo as worthy If honors m "hy theater. Headiined Dy Miiham Lalnpe and Company, III one l lt Ip' breezy and snappy domesu~ -dlt "th Ines critics have said are a. finey dfaNu anu as subtle as were eyer said on ifoau- way, or Tn dear '-Cl Lunnon,' the whole programme is the Kind tAat is eXpscted 10 lave just the proper balance to pieass any sort of audience either this slde or the other side of-any old place you want to name.
 As an ilustrat tion of the wide variety the Keith house is offering the Dancing Kennedys,. one of vaudevile's top notch numbers, 4re on the programme, ahd' soing by what critics have sad wherever ltey have appeared, it's easy to get them mixed up with the act that's gwen the headline title-they're said to be thaV good
 Creamer, Barton and sparling, The Top Notch TITO of Fun and Songiahu' have what Walter Crosb4e, manager ol the Lyric, admits is big order 10 riii' for they are billed as live wires in Fun land" but. as Mir Crosuie puts it. they turn on the current an1 the sparks O. fun certainly fly. They fill the Dill III every particular
 Florence Merritt and Gaby Bridewel', pretty misses have q big selection 'i song hits and possess voices that are eA. 1sected to put them over in a manner tnae will bring them back again and again. They are comediennes as well as vocal ists, and their united talerts present tiiein in a way that has been described as pleasing as can be.
 Pollard. slight of hand expert, com rletes the bill, and Of Pollard crle'eo lave said it won't do cre any good 'o watch him in an effort to see now ne does it-unless he wants to show you. Pollard is described as being one O. .ll' eieverest slight of hand men in vaude- N8lie with a happy assoftiheh1 oA ~ ter to help him along
 ..The Street Called Straight IS the pic ture feature. If Basil King novel, lhs Street Called Straight, which has peeii converted into a beautiful motlon pletui :lt the GoIdwyn studios under the Eii', ineut Authors banner, cXalts one morai ,,t.inciple aoove all others. 1t IS that Il .ynod name is more to v desired than ;.rsdt | ches The picture IS a story ol ,ontras.ed moral values, r which Ao ~. lde ViI4in nsradeS to fepict in pay s- is.al way the power of ali evil temptations, touite the contrary, .'The Street Called straieht," may be called story Win out a viilain-unless niss nane is rate fer all the characters are so intent upon acting squarely with each other that they ars willing to fersalSe their own nappi- ,aess rather than be unfrte to their gwen Sword The people in the story nave an | 7,oncrable lineage: and their eonil cts are .t tbe more tragic because the tradition os family holds them in its power This great photoplay is enacted oy an aY-star cast of characters, mciudins .Milton Sirls Naomi Childers' Charies z clary. Irene Rich, Jane sterling, La wsol s, Butt and many others. II " | be at tne Lyric theater fer limited number oi ! cays. beginning today, and ending Sat
 urday.