New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-01-14
The New Play
By Percy Hammond
Miss Lillian Lorraine and 10.
scph Cawthorn Perform Sue
c~sefully, Though in Rou-
tine Fashion, Musical
Piece Called "Thc
Blue Kitten


THE CAST
LOUIS .......--,... ..'........B BIZ Hawkins
,rsis,s ............ Victor Morley
Theodore Nandcrpop. Joseph Cawthorn
I'uFahd.. ..... Gcorf-N r,c So'r
Octave ............. Robe Voo,xev
llh ........ Miss BE, Barlow
Vrl Or, and Marcelc. from the chorus
Of the Folics Bergerc. ........ Miss
Marion Sunshine and Miss Garcia -aon
ao,oe e', M'ss LILLIAN lorraine
Nina ue GnvS vnn Douglas Stevenson
Miss Jean Nowcombe
Madeleine Nanderpop.
Miss Lorraine Manviiie
'or'hc' .'''............ Dallas Wexford
Would YOU care to sec musical
comedy with first act in the Blue
Kitten Restaurant in Paris snd sec
ond at Nanderpop's chateau, near Fon-
taireblcu. two days later? One Of those
new things, with Mr.. Joseph Cawthorn
playing Vanderpop. head waiter. and
Miss Lillian Lorraine ivnpcrsonatinc
Totoche. distingui shed member Of the
chorus OF the Folics Bcrgcres? With Mr..
Douglas Stevenson representing Ar
rand. marquis, and Mr.. Dallas We'll
ford viyifying his tutor. Monsieur rop-
ret? With Mr.. Victor Morley in spats ct
cetera, countcrfciting Giglais, Paris
ian bon vivant. and Miss Marion Sun
shine dancing as Cri Cri. lady Of
the theater? And all to music BY
Rudolf Frim:
Well. in case the prospect arrests
you, the opportunity presents itself
these days at the Selvyn Theater,
where last evening transpired the
American premiere of The Blue Kit
ten" an importation from, Paris. Book
and lyrics BY Otto Harbach and Will
liam Cary Duncan, romance by Yves
Mirande and Gustav Quinson, cvo.u-
tions by Edgar Seiwyn, Julian Mitchell
ard Leon Enrol. and superintendent
b5 Arthur Hammersten. The event
was gala. attended and approved as it
was BY the local musical comedy cog
noscenti. Seldom in the theater have
you heard greater uproar Of COM
mcndation than that which last even
ing ratified the victory Of Armand and
Madeleine. when. clipping in an auto
mobile, they escaped the pursuing To-
toche and Vandcrpop. Pretty girls
we're at hand in costly disclosing
frocks, and jaunty chorus men, hale
mclodic fellows without a care. Lest
forget, ! set down at once the joke
which most impressed me. "What Is
the shimmy??' asked Popnet of Van
dcrpop. at is shaky business" was
the answer.
There were, Of course, other snappy
conversations in the course Of the play,
in addition to topical songs sung by the
dependable MIR. Cawthorn. But moth
ing wittily spectacular. Mr. Cav
thorn, in lamentation entitled "Thc
best Ever Get Is the Worst Of It,"
announced many of the minor miscries
of marriage, telling how his wife en-
harnesses him by her stupidities at
bridge and her superiority upon the
floor Of the ballroom. The gentle Mr..
Stevenson sang some love-songs softly
with Miss Lorraine Manville, who was In !
the play his hearts desire, and ballad
entitled Cutie" fingered, like mendi-
caut, throughout the performance. Toe
dancing by Miss May Cory Kitchen &C.
CURED when il WAS most needed, which
was often. Of Miss Lillian Lorraine.
who, it seems, is returning to the stage
from somewhere or other, it is to be
said that she is comely, that she has
poise in her acting, certain charm in
her manner, and that she sings and
dances very prettilv indeed. "The Blue
Kitten is costly enterprise, proceed.
ing satisfactorily. one supposes, along
the routine and familiar thoroughfsrcs
Of prosperous entertainment.