The Washington times., 1920-02-09
EIGHT VICTOR ARTISTS
GIVE UNUSUAL CONCERT
Clever Performers For Victrola Offer
program Mingling Jazz
With Classical.

Popular" purveyors of laughter
and melody the Eight Famous Vie
| tor Artists" proved themselves yes
terday afternoon at their concert and
| entertainment that delighted ca
pacity audience at Polls Theater.
when this unusual group of men gave
something between a minstrel show"
and a concert Of pop" music that in
cluded many OF the Victrola's fav-
orite records. by the Victor favorite
singers.
In bringing these eight feature"
artists of the Victor. the Anscii,
Bishop and Turner Company brought
also an innovation into Washington's
music experience that met with un-
doubted success. A striking poiEt in
the audience was the preponderance
of the male element Almost never
in Washington have SO many men
been present in a concert audience
And the singers? Billy Murray
took the role of "Interlocutor, and
kept the smiles going with his huinor
and his contagious spirit Of fun, even
before he proved a "deadline" coined
ian in songs, telling the men particu-
larly about his troubles in Can You
Tame wild Wimmen." He Is inde-
scribably funny, and what tongue
twister he Is in 81 Ses to Myself Ses
l." Have you heard him tell--"lt
must have been the Irish who built
the Pyramids?" Or all about
"C-u-b-a?"
Henry Burr. big and cheerful
proved the sweet singer" whose
records show his appealing terror
voice in ballads Of sentiment that go
straight into the heart of one. His
songs mean much, they shave the sim
plicity of Mccormack, and purer
voice in the upper register tina. is
without strain or effort. He sang
dusk and the shadows Falling,
Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight.
and "Oh! What a Pal Was Mary"
among his tuneful ballads.
And next in popularity was without
doubt Monroe Silver, in his dslightful
Cohen" stories, told in song. HIS Is
irresisttbly funny and his parodies--
such as "Bubbles"-a.e delicious. And
fgain for rich singing there was In
tie solo work, Frank Croxton, whose
be ss- baritone gave some. excellent
negro "spirituals," maio quite lec-
ord in the spirited "On the Road to
Mandalay" to the Kipling poem. and
also in the song by yictor Herbert,
My Gypsy Sweetheart"
The Peerless Quartet is as sttrac-
tive as the records gave promise OF.
Tney sang Swing AlonB WIN Ieal
grand opera harmonies and manner"
while their medley of songs that
everyone knows and whistles and
dances to was delightful, while they
gave the well modulated and soft
effects of q we'll balanced male quar-
tet in Somebody's Waiting for Somo
One"
Fred Van Fps was truly the
wizard" with his orchestra" OF
"himself, his banjo. and his chair"
getting his popular pep" into the
Chinese Picnic, into the "Vamp a Lit
tie Lady" and n Dixie Medley. And
John Meyers and Albert Campbell
contributed in both concerted num-
bers and in soNos.
Frank Banta, at the plano, was all
that n one-man orchestra ought to be,
in these modern times Of waltz, and
OF "Jazz." He jazzed the "Humor-
esque," the Sinding Rustic of Spring"
even Chopinl Queer finger work, and
astonishing rhythmi The entire COM
pany gave some rich hsrmonied
choruses at the opening and/the close
Of a novelty concert that registered .
distinct success In Washington.
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