Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-15
RAY DOOLEY SINGST WAS A FLORADORA BABY
Comedy Song

Il Was a Floradora Baby sings Ray
Dooley in a meIOdious burlesque on the
: famous "FIoradora Sextette" in the 1920
edition of Ziegfeld "Fonies."
Ray is dolled up like one of the origi-
nal FIoradora maidens Of the famous
sextette twenty years ago. She is mighty
old-fashioned compared to the limousine
queens in Mr.. Ziegfeld' ''FOllies" sex
tette.
But Ray warblesabout the glory which
was hers years ago. She tells in melody
that four of the original six married for
money, but she married Abbie, drum
mer with a loud vest. just Cor love. She
admits that she is not singing in a sex
tette now, but she is raisin' one.
All of this is splendid fooling, delight
full burlesque on one of the famous sex
tettes in history.s In this little bit OF
fun Miss DoOIey shows what a really fine
artist she is. She is one of the really
bright lights in the many scenes of the
'FOllies."
Miss Dooley makes her first entrance
in a baby carriage in in the Park"
Her fond parents give her a bottle of
milk mixed with a comfortable portion
x6f brandy. W. c. Fields as a dress suit
souse comes in as baby" starts to pull
at the bottle containing the spiked"
punch. Baby" stages the ''souse of the
infant Fields admits he understands
her better than any Other woman, and
when this hilarious scene is over baby"
gives Fields an awful battle.
Again in another scene, Ray Dooley
has a clever dance satire on the classi-
cal dance with Jack DOnohue, who is
both clown and an acrobat on his feet
I'D -,
Ing presented at EngliSh's this week is
pretty much a Ray Dooley show.
The best scene from a comedy stand
point is called The Family Ford"
which is a screaming confession of
George Fliverton. the owner Of a Ford.
Fields has the services Of Ray DOGGY, a
trick Ford, Margaret Irving and others
Fields and Miss DOoley pull some of the
cleanest and best fun I have ever seen
In the FOllies or in any other revue or
musical comedy. 1t is the comedy knock
out of the show. Without it 1 would not
care half as much for the 1920 edition of
the FoEies.
As the FOllies now stands, it allows
certain players to make individual hits.
Besides Miss DOOIey and Fields. the
winners are Van and Schenck. who are
the best singers OF their kind on the
revue stage today; John Steel, a splen
did singer and Jack DOnOhue. OF
course, the beautiful pictures arranged
by Ben Ali Haggin are startling COM
binations of color and striking effects.
He is a master with human aesh-pots
and colnrs. Carl Randall has one or two
pleasing dances with Lillian Broderick.
Mary Eaton is announced as the premier
danseuse and in her I personally found
much to be disappointed with, remem-
bering the press agenting she received
before arriving Moran and Mack Of
fered a speciality in which a clever box
ing number made up for some ancient
Jokes Jerome and Herbert also are
present with a speciality. There are nu-
merous others, including the Ziegfeld
chorus, the members Of which expose Jess
flesh and more clothing than in other
Wears.
>There are several wonderful song pic
lures in the 1920 FOllies. l have time
to mention only a few. One is the gem
of aIl-"The Love Boat" sung by John
Steel and given pictorial beauty by Ben
Ali Haggin. Another beautiful song pie
ture is when MI Steel sings THE Gypsy
Trail
The Follies cast now at English's is
minus some of the big names in the cast
when it opened in New York. Those
missing are Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice
Bernard Granville and Charles Win
ringer. Mind you, they were not adver-
tised to be at English's, so there is no
deception.
As The Follies now stands at Eng
nsh's. 1t is a big vaudeville show, with
some marvelously beautiful song pic
lures and also the medium Of presenting
Ray DOoley in some Of the best fun the
stage has ever offered.
At Euglish's all week W. D. II.