The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-17
AmuSementS
Dolly Sisters.


Granted by all living practitioners To
ne the greatest wonder of the anatomi- |
~ age, we have here what | might |
ifitly term a veritable physical exempIi-
llcatlon of the old proverb two souls
t No put a single thought, two hearts
ina peat as one"
ihus once spoke Lew Graham, pre-
Inler sldeshow in intro
duclng Laloo, the double bodied how
torn in far off India).
mus might one speak of those two
superfemales, the Dolly Sisters,
Every ounce of their 1.-THE, supple
9oales atune to the rhythm of the
dance, every ounce of flesh. bone and
cartilage in accord with their art, every
pan and socket joint synovially syn
~cIrohlzed TO the expression of youth,
Joy and abandon, The Dolly Sisters
Rozika and Yansci and a bangup
through "Oh, Look,h a te~rnischorean
and musical .melange Friday night at
me New Lyric.
The capacity audience was pleased
as no other has been this season and
in the gentle parlance of modern re-
VISION the sign mo more persons will
pc admitted to this performance" will
rave to be busted off by Manager
frank Gray for the matinee this after
ho0n and tlnal performance tonight.
The Dolly Sisters are danceurs de
luXe. They live their dances and the
Siamese Twins are not more closely
joined in physical correlation of re-
sources and conservation and expendi-
ture of energy than they.
They are vampires de luxe, if you
WIN. With the air of Broadway about
them 1t Is easy to conceive of them as
me p~rogenitors of the style of wearing
the hair in the mode apparently simu-
latlng the ace of clubs with the dextra
and sinister lobes of the ace enveloping
n1nh nor = ID Ana-v 49, ---
them as the originals from which shop
girls, laundry girls, telephone girls and
society women simulate the "vamp''
makeup, dark circles beneath eyes de
noting, passion), and all the other
I~hedabaran Requirements calculated
to lead the milder sex to dig up from
ms jeans, commit suicide and other
impulsive deeds.
The sisters, be they sisters it mat
ters not; the sisters, be they from
Budapest, OIL be they scions of an
older race (see the Old Testament)
the Orient, rave Memphians a per-
ormance that will not soon be for
gotten.
Founded upon James Montgomery's
story. Ready Money "Oh, Look for
that is the name of the play, has a plot,
(mirabile dictu), a plot which itself
carries the action through to a lively
finish.
A fellow with the ex-presidential
anne of Ben Harrison carries a diff
cult comedy part through well although
not fitted by voice to sing the beauti-
full song, I'm Forever Chasing Rain
bows" as 1t should be ung Louis
DeBey, Louis Haines, Al Mathes, Hal
Van Rensselaer,, J. Arthur Young and
John Keefe, the latter especially as the
detective with the squeaky shoes, ably
help in the development of the situa-
tons.
But it is the chorus, Ooh, La, La
the chorus that fixes and focuses the
attention, Weberfieldian would be a
mild term to characterize these babies.
1t is not recorded on the Program who
arranged n conceived the dances.
Perhaps Yansci and Rozika themselves
did, but whosoever did was a master,
or mistress. No better working organi-
zation has been seen here since back
in the Instant past New York let us
have a Weber & Fields production
Settings tasteful, gowns satisfying,
ooh Look" deserves the patronage it
is receiving h~ere-capacity houses.
To the Dolly girls, thank you, to the
Dolly Girls girls, thank you, for com
ing away from your Broadway long
enough to give Memphis a little scent
of Broadway-a little scent of the met
ropolitan, like a breath of ozone from
the mountain tops, after theater-goers
have been made sluggish with dull
shows and the expiring breath of the
gurgling death of John B~arleycorn.
NED COURTNEY.