New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
All : Star Idlers
Stage Great Show
AT Shubert Theater
Professional Folk Compose
Audience ON Opening
Night and Pact Revue
Wins Admiration of All
By Fiarriette Underhill


The ldlers of New York, who admit
that the reason they are idle is be-
cause they are so good no man.
ager can afford to put them to work,
have combined and are Offering two
act revue called 1.-The All-Star Idlers
of 1921"
The opening performance was given
at the Shubert Theater Thursday night,
or rather Friday morning at 1915. by
the clock. The audience was composed
chiefly of professional people who are
not idle, but it is our idea that if the
lay man and woman had known just who
was going to be in that audience they
would have bought up the tickets so
fast that there wouldn't have been any
left to sell to the celebrities. Fancy
sitting in the theater between Blanche
Ring and petite Adelaide or between
TommysMeighan and Norma Talmadge!
Fancy sitting directly behind the dia-
mond tiara of Marcella Swanson, di-
rectly in front of Pearl White and
across the aisle from Edmund Lowe and
Lilyan Tashman!
The revue was divided into two acts
and each act had six "ofrenses" (the
ldlers' word for scenes,
There were thirty stars, count 'em
thirty, and in the constellation were
Ed. Wynne, Ned Sparks. Herbert
Corthell, Tom Lewis, Jed Prouty. Cyril
King, Wellington Cross, Gitz Rice. Hal
Forde, Will Morrissey, Efingham
Pinto, Joe Allen and lot Of others
equally luminous. The prologue was
called "The Spirit of the Manager" and
Ned Sparks was the spokesman. 1t
was banquet scene with nothing to
eat or drink. The oft repeated vail
was Were broke!"
The third offense was called Cali
fornia Sunshine" 1t was pathetic
sketch of two trough miners" who
loved an innocent girl" and asked
her to choose between them. Ned
Sparks was Jim, Herbert Corthell was
Iom, and Harry Allen was "the Gal".
Icm comes back after a long absence
and remarks, "Our little Nell has
grown so l hardly knew her. She is
The Woman God Chanced.'s o.
The first act closes with a Russian
ballet, which is the funniest thing we
ever saw. Some of the men were dis.
gulsed as nymphs, others were fauns
and some of the others were mortals
VINO came into the woods to steal the
nymphs away from the fauns. 1t was
an "lnterpretive dance" and about as
clear as such things usually are. The
men who participated in this ballet
may have been comfortable in thei,
abbreviated costumes, but we must saw
few of them were designed to success.
fully wear such things and retain their
manly beauty, for few of them were
built like Theodore Kosloff.
Wellington Cross did a mind leading
act that was wonderful. He went dowr
into the audience and then asked his
partner on the stage to call the names
of the articles which he held. HI
stopped at an aisle seat and seized
our hat. "What is this? If you know
keep it under your hat" Strange tc
say, his partner guessed right the first
time
John Emerson wrote two-act sketch
called "The Door" 1t was played b,
William B. Mack, Robert Pitkin. Victor
Morley and Stuart Wilson. Mr.. Wilson
gave performance as Nora, the sweet.
heart, that was truly remarkable. Nor.
ley was also good as the wife and the
whole thing was extremely we'll done
Another good performance was given
by Efingham Pinto as the Gold Digee,
Girl in racetrack spectacle. We
should say he is quite as successful al
that sort of thing as Julian Eltnge.
Ii the performances which the idlers
purpose giving are all as we'll SUP.
ported as the opening one all we car
say is that the idlers ought to be
flosted bondholders by the end OF the
season. 1t is great show!