The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-07
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By H.

At the Novelty.
It's the best all around bill the Novelty
something worth while to offer and gets
across the footlights with It: Ea lsa. act Is
classy and delivered ~ artists artists. what more
The Strauss twins who occupy first posi-
ton do not belong in that despised place
on the tho h It would ,i DE sb nald
trade with the girlies. They are musicians
of more than the ordinary vaudeville taien.
means. Hazel Leona mas not as much voice
as she should have to make her flfteen
minutes on the stage one hundred per cent
and has two new ones. THE Night Boat"
is the most complete skit offered here this
It is full Of types az f ef eaeRs
and closes with the biggest one. ~.
One of the most comic of knoek-apout
comedy teams shown in vaudeville here
is that by Cy and CIV who are good al
the way. They do some Of kipling's STUFF
with al the eea and sn Hf ast
the bill and if a better idea than that
wrestling bout. staged by Bill Retter, has
been introduced In an acrobatic act, it has
not reached Topeka. Bill wrestles with
himself and manages to throw himself at
the finish, using half nelson ana NAM
berlock combined.
At the Orpheum.
There were several people in the audience
last night who brought magazines along.
They and the folks who were lulled to
the lucky ones. Never did care whole
lot for Dorothy Dalton as an actress, but
generally she has clever story which car
and histrionic ability. This. time in "A
Romantic Adventures" she does not have
even the story and the result Is dreary; so.
in its wanderings in New York and winds
, up in Monte Carlo. You get me, the plot
About the only real thrill one gets out of
the picture is in several glimpses of a real
football game after which H. Dorothy rot FIN, meets ELS
about half over az this point, it is here
that, what story there. is, starts,
DAZZLING In Art is the title of the Mack
Sennett comedy which finishes the bill.
Glad it was announced that this was a
comedy, no one would have known it to
| listen to the crowd last night. Not one
| laugh was scored.
At the Grand
! 1t was our first glimpse of Doraldina
on the screen o+ Had urged several Local
| but they ali fought shy, being afraid of it.
There is nothing TO be afraid of. 1t Is
Retss L has has See AND SITTING
Numbering and is staged by actors who
know their business. As a general rule.
cess but the work of Doraldina, the white
woman east ashore on a cannibal island and
who as their, goddess. keeps them in sub
fiction by her interpretive tersichorean
ability, well it is all any one can ask.
The production is enough of novelty
to be reIfef from TINS eternal round OF
society stuff the screen producers have
been throwing at our heads for the last
few months. The Hawaiian singers,
dancers and musicians create an at
mosphere. for the picture with their half
hour of harmony just before the picture
starts. 1t is the first time anyone here
has heard Sousa's "Stars and Stripes For
ever done the Hawaiian way, but it makes
mighty good listening. ali the members
of the company are real Hawaiians, espe-
cfally the Hula dancer, who by the way
does. not fake the stuff. She knows what
the hula dance really is and does it.