The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-25
ALL ABOARD is
MERRY CRUISE;
ALL STAR CREW
Tri- city Stars In RolIicking COM
edy; It's An 0cean-going Ship
of Fun, Mates!

Speed, pep, go, ginger, dash
they're all in this sea- going musi-
cal comedy, "All Aboard" which
I tri-city posts of the American le-
gion are presenting this week.
The show opened last night in the
Moline high school auditorium,
plays there tonight; comes to the
| Illinois theatre, Rock Island, to-
morrow and Thursday nights and
supplants the stock actors at the
Grand theatre, Davenport, Friday
and Saturday nights
! Mates, take it from an old tar,
| it's a whale of a show.
| Davy Jones' locker never held
more surprises than "All Aboard"
The cast is large and every one of
the characters important, yet the
production was staged with snap
and precision. The major roles are
! Interpreted by some OF the ablest
| talent in the tri-cities, and for an
amateur effort it is a finished pro-
| duCtion.
To single out any individual
| character as the star of the sketch
| involves mention of all those in
| the leading roles. John O'Sheehan,
as Billy Brady, a boisterous col
| lege youth minus four teeth, and
who is pressing an ardent suit for
| the hand of a winsome maid, is
! ludicrously comic. Practically all
| of the eventfuI situations of the
plot are built around his set of
| false teeth.
Rosie Wright, unfailingly fun
ny with his face daubed with
black, and Alexander C. Phone,
! talkative porter on the steamship
knocks the props out from under
| the audience with his slam bang
| comedy. The spirit of the play is
animated greatly by the vigorous
support witch Dorothy Garrigus, as
/ Dorothy Brady, gives her toothless
; brother in overcoming the diff
culties of wooing with four teeth
gone.
Running a close second with
Rosie Wright in impersonation is
Irene Jensen, as Jenny, the Sean
dinavian stewardess. Her dialect
with its sing-song monotone has
been developed to an immensely
| funny degree. Hans Kuehl, Marie
Williams, Blanche Williams and
Mitchell Wolters carry prominent
parts in an able fashion. Henry
I Moeller and Clarence Malone, two
deck-swabbing gobs who are cley-
er with their feet and not at all
awkward in exchanging blow for
! blow in it, give a typical nautical
atmosphere to the stage.
City Directory Comes 20 Life.
/ Then there are tourists, cabin
boys, yachting girls, sailor men and
! sailor girls, sweethearts, bashful
bees, fishing girls, overall girls, sea
nymphs, water witches, and anti
dotes-it's all very suggestive of
the briny blue.
| The ensembles and choruses, re-
plete with gay costumes and pretty
girls, and the dances, more pretty
/ girls, big and little, and more pref
ty costumes and spirited, graceful
movements, add to the fullness of
the show.
| The action takes place aboard
/ the S. S. Florida Just as Billy's
amours approach a dramatic point
he is on his Bonded knees before
Miss Sloan-he has an accident
He loses his false teeth. Serious
complications follow swiftly and
tragicaIIy for Billy.
/ In desperation he steals every
set Of false teeth on board, and
there is more excitement. There
is almost a riot when the owners
and it is astounding to learn
how many there are-discover the
loss of their ''pie-crushers.'
Captain Solves 1t All.
In a quandary, the captain of
/ the vessel announces an auction
and Billy CANDLES recklessly with
his pocketbook to win. But his
chum with the gossipy tongue out
bids him.
The crushed, lisping Brady is
/ just about to sink his heavy sorrow
in the salty deep when his chum
surrenders the teeth and sets at
rest the ill-founded rumors which
have submerged Billy in a flood OF
embarrassment, and have almost
caused him to lose his girl.
Billy gets his teeth and his girl
and his chum gets his sister, and
well, everybody stands happily be-
fore the spotlight.