Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-05
F7HE HALF MOON"
A FULL SUCCESS
|,.cobi's Music Ingratiating'y
FITS Le Baron's Attractive
seenario--cast Admirable

-.,-As,ronony is doubtless one
:, ,bs subjects with which Henry huu- 1
- w. robson, the newly rich. wnole-
pn - hut only very partially edu-
~ nork packer, who Is the centrss
e.Vu CO. IN "The Half Moon" shared h's
s ,i ignorance Of geography, gram
fenei "a other items that more OF Nss
msr ,,,,,b pack Bay culture. hau w
60 WI" "ha,,eT acquainted with Anams -
been p,'Jcai pTi he would not have been con.
.us,ed with any fifty-hfty moon ~
vnuId % have gone the wnole n.t ro IN
claimed Gro,,,ndity, the Indian. harvest
luna Iuna, for his pedigree deriving paoK ,Sxs, T0s.
mooii, or Tamanen or some Vtnst
Msso Mssss who predated the Plymoutnss
s,acau.ard sacnue exodus of those blue-blooeso
Fosh as hhinme.nosed n wayfarers. the tercen,
,.n,ry of whose p lgrimage We are ~ ~.
ppsently celebrating, epnnssd In.
Sne.blooded and often oiue-hose' i
eAge ,.,, Io,son ,vas content with
,,ps.,,, ps. audson's split moon. there is
hs,nirg half way about the success OF
M new musical play with book anu
ivrics ,i by william lie Baron ana scos2
~ Victor Jacob. In the couns % Si the e
waning II passed rapidly thro"sh t"e
nsases TO a full success.
'Sgobson's honest to- goodness nature
.rS honest t-to-self lack of culture VIM
sn, completely over the supercilious anu
snebbish airs of a group OF Maypower
S.scendants. They are not codnsn
sristocracy, but, IL you please, Sacreo,
Goldfish aristocracy. Tne npre.s,a oraeS n,
MO his contrasting pictures and
inScbed % them with a bit Of acid satire,
Wv, vs'ItT tTs ali good humored. He has a
rin, Of consecutivity, into which the
ssyeral musical numbers. colorfui ana
xell staged At snugly and approprlateiy.
Iobson's son and the scion OF the COP
|I.ySA6an1ses figure in the development
oss of course, there are two pretty girls
an the ideals of their inamoration. May
fower ancestry Is proved but the gul-
neas stamp and the pork packer q man
for a. that. And the scenario iis 50
beautifully cohesive and consistent
Joe Cawthorn plays the pork packer.
without accent: apparently he IS ae. tryimg
that has heretofore been won by Lew
Fields and Louis Mann. of the old
kriVade o. Dutch dialecticians. Mr..
|Cawthorn does his new stunt very well,
With a hint occasionally OF characterls-
|t,c sxaggeration. but with freedom from
stock maunerisms, Joseph Santley and
oscar Shaw are the respective sons and
present a pleasantly youthful aspect and
| 1.-THE activity particularly in the dances.
PLAYING opposite to them are Ivy Saw
yer and May Thompson. each pretty as
la picture, one titan blonde, portrait
and the other O. brunette portrait w l.
liam Ingersoll. the former Orpheum Stock
star, gives a good characterization of the
descendant OF half hundred earls, or
rather half dozen Pilgrims, and Edna
May oliver is equally good as the female
Of the ppecies. Maude Eburne is
typically funny and q comedy hit 10
registered by Charles Lawrence. re-
Numbered az the suffering doughboy In
Else Janis's A. p. r. revue last season.
The music has both variety and VI
vacity. Mr. Jacobi. who was FRITZ
Kreisler's colleague in the score of
Apple Blossoms" has fertile fnelodic
Effectiveness and he ID a composer who
s not only aware Of the woodwind and
other orchestra choirs, besides the brass
and the battery, but one also able and
willing to use his knowledge, to the re-
suit Of q very tuneful and ingratinting
music far superior to the jass school.
The librettist strives to be funny with
out belng. indelicate, rather q dif'icult
stint by the canons OF musical comedy
scenarios, and succeeds well on the
whole Fred Latham, who staged the
production, Is altogether successful In
attaining delicacy. OF touch and. atmoss
phere. He has a sense of color har-
monies In settings and cost urnes that
make the successive stage pictures and
Ensembles a treat Ito the eve. G Z, 5 tsF..