The Washington herald., 1921-08-20
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NEW YORK. Aug. 1s.-A mid
night performance by all colored
players has suddenly bioomed as
the nocturnal rendezvous for who's
Who" along Broadway. The play
Shuttle Along" is presented In an
old theater in West sixty-third
street. 1t was written by Noble
Sissle and Aubrey LyIes, who have
long been ION CALI to play and
sing at private parties.
1t is teeming with haunting mel
odies and Love Will Find Way"
promises to become as popular as
Miss Me Again" and other old
standbys. Real talent is exhibited
among the dusky ladies' of the as
semble and one in particular sings
a "Doddy" song that out-blues the
blueist blue melody ever heard in
New York.
An ebony-hued Theda Bara with
strange are the uses of henna-
red bobbed hair croons 'Tf You
Haven't Been Vamped by q Brown
Skin. You Haven't Been vamped
at All and the night I was there
she got fourteen curtain calls. A
party Of colored people in evening
clothes occupied one box and across
from them was a box filled with
white people whose names are
quite we'll known In the Lobster
Belt.
In the foyer between acts there
is a promenade for all the world
like the old days when Diamond
Jim revealed his two-pint pearls
and Lilliputian Kohinoors. Among
those I saw were Pearl White, the
Duncan sisters. Just back from
London: Jesse Reed. Audrey Ma
pie, Irving Berlin. Nellie McCutch-
con. Ned wayburn, Dorothy Gish
and Emily Orange.
The theater Is hot and stuffy and
the scenery is most mediocre but
the idea Is something new and
Broadway always looking for
something different partially slakes
its Unsuitable thirst. Two other
old-timers. known as wicked ivory
FOUNDERS at private banquets, also
make their bow in shuttle Along"
They are known as "Onion" JEFF
frey and "Sneeze"-the latter was
once hired at midnight to accom-
pany a gay party to Paris the next
day and when he got over there he
made such a hit that Broadway
didn't see him for two years.
/ spent the evening with a friend
Of mine who has an apartment with
a back yard in Greenwich Village.
He Is an accomplished saxophone
player and with the windows open
as the night was hot, he obliged
with a few numbers. Facing his
back yard is a row OF tumble down
tenements inhabited by Italian
workmen. who sat in the lamp-lit
windows. After. each rendition
there were cries of Bravo" and
much applause. They called for va
rious airs from Italian operas and
he responded good naturally. After
the concert there was a knock at the
basement door and a red-shirted
italian with a fierce mustache
shuffled about nervously. Our
leetla boy. he seek. You play. He
mooch better. I bringa you dees
with his thanks. My wife maka
heem"-and he presented a bottle
Of chant.
A hulking, red-faced detective
went on a rampage in the Paddy's
Market section of Ninth avenue the
other afternoon and black Jack ed
twenty-four people-among them
women and children. The magis-
trate dismissed all and rebuked the
detective. who did not even appear
In court. An old man. partially
blind. was eating a plate of soup
in a dingy restaurant where the
rampage started. His soup was
jerked from him and hurled in his
face. While the outrage was in
progress the detective is said to
have shouted: There's too damn
much personal liberty in this coun-
try"