Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-09
q MNN'S REVUE;
: ADELpHI HAS FARCE
erol at Keits's-"Nearly
l'V .,.,,;ed" at orpheum.
other Attractions

,,, be all very true that prophet
! u .,l.hout IIv honor in his own county, ,,,,,,
Is wl'uUa Utortaiper is by no means with
out ',Ns favor .on, ~ was deservedly rewarded
na'ive snlouse % and laughs last night
With b, 'pp,"qics pe.Pries, where he staged the the
at the '.S;rl I Of his "Carnival-first
merry . " "D n work of james, jazz and
sditi',, did ,s,t ought to become as annual n,,,,
t's 'u%r ,iroctory or the almanac. Phil
as ,,Ds,o ,Ds a'i, IL now noted for Hugh Wynne,
adepn'a wvnne and Ed Wynn. and the
ha ,s,iou - %U Of the name in the compare. 81. !.
reputation ,.0o v All the boys from the
i've s,,.ssle ssS millinery district. where once once
vholesaiV ssS or toiled not, as the case may
b 'o"sa .,,o y present to give him a glad
e.,d y, and in addition to. to 'nTss snoueb no Of
u. saDa, him when there were reaudsviiie vh TO
snsS stsss who knew him IN n 'a'
those thcss,itate t the s II o sign. .0,ro that
neSssis' Tsis audience enjoyed re'u" % n;cc
ins 90 clean as 1t was cleVer; Ito :" o;ther
s. ws the percentage wEn pe,nG ~ ~ Re-
versa They me really ENJOYED .;.o IL. % ;.s
way. 81 It's cleverness or desplte ,''
cause ,',s y, no inossibly because OF It's Clean
clsannIESd Wynn may have a stumoieu on on
n's,T Tnown to almost everybody pu'
isss iss,aicai al producers, that wholesoine
theatrical ~ handicap. 1t. sought no
ness % s.ono an iewdness, 1t discarded I'm
iugns, ,n.oaturings, Last though 1t was by no
modeN p'l long Skirt high collar aifair,
means nsuaod for the success 1t got on
sanrc' dspvn not integument. IL was
nteiiserV ss Iepr on color, never long, IT pt ALL
Oh nswss. color; drolleries and dittiesl moved
pame''. '.ho shifting background OF
ifsins' Games .n Of genuine pictorial love :.
txeive 'fT The clever principals included
ines; s.,;,uant chantcuse, Lillian fltz-
ne p'Ptb The native japanese Mayako
gsralIu, gsnl.sr the astonishingly graceful
cniureeini u.reii,fu, gymnasts, Regal and Moore,
snS Raw Miller's jazzists. Pervadins
and ,os a the automatically comic person
sity n Of Wynn and his UBIQUITOUS per, =
an sn For plot purposes ne aciea as ,u .
Greek chorus, but WASH tne ,oa;nss vT,s
.horns, BY no means! The lyric iaoles
" their good looks, good voices ano m
saod manners helped to make Ho
yWypn' WV S show an Ed Wynner.
email slip. a piece Of pink lingerie,
| .n,Sttv tbin material even for a farce
| a. while "Up in Mabers Room may
mai have been sheer delight lor ever
one there were enough other thlnrs Una
we're sheer to please any one VINO nho'
his element the sine qua non IN the
atrical entertainment; ,,.
sThe audience at the Adelphi tount
fsw other slips, besides the. before
m.rt;oned one, in the coarse of thu
hrre Certainly any bride with thu
mast % ordinary sense could scarcely b.
saIous for long of a monogrammed bi
n lingerie, given by her husband u
,nother girl. before he married her
Pnt il enabled number Of people Il
nam about Mabel's room for an ac
lost night.
n,pts in the farce, it for the most par
INNS in its action. it is pretty well tn,
euyentional stuff which has beeI
Muded out in so many others, and tn
ncties are ut times none too well OBJ
xred.
Walter Jones, a veteran farceur
asily carried off the honors, as the ex
ctaSle Jimmy Larchmont, while Eni'
Markey, although scarcely of the bab
dOll variety, played that sort Of rol
As q young bride very well. Haze
Dawn, as Mabel. and John Arthur, a
Garry Ainsworth, were well In tn
picture! :,
Sparkling comedy prevails at tn
0rpheum with the presentation Q
NEARLY Married." which has just fin
shed a road tour. 1t is filled wit
amusing complications growing out Q
the turbulent domestic relations Q
Harry Lindsay and his pretty youn
wife, Betty. Eventually Betty dis
covers that she really loves her hus
band. With Miss Desmond as Bett
and Mr. Fielder as Harry, there
plenty Of fun.
At other theatres the following at
fractions continue: Broad, 'The IRE
sstble Genius" new Cohan pro
duction; Shubert, Take 1t froi
Ne" clean musical farce wit
a plot; Forrest, "Listen, Lester" di
wrting musical show; Opera Hous.
'Frivolites Of 1920" fun and dancin
revue; Walnut, "Seven Days Leave,
oig spectacular melodrama; Lyri,
Guest Of Honor" with Willial
Hodge, and Dunbar. interesting reviv,
OF In Old kentucky