The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-17
THE PALACE.

One yearly event in local theatrical circles that is always eagerly awaited by New Haven theater goers IS the Palace Anniversary Week. Beginning
 Monday the beautiful house cele-
 brates its fifth anniversary and never
 before has this event been so care
 fully and painstakingly planned. l Fourteen acts, each a selection from the ranks of supreme vaudeville, have
 been booked for the coming fifth
 birth-week of the Palace.
 | The seven acts selected for the first half of Anniversary Week are headed | by Paul Cunningham and Florence l Bennett, who, with their big company, l have been one of the outstanding hits of the present season. on Broadway. It is said that Cunningham and Ben | nett are due to complete a series of New York engagements totallng nearly IS weeks in the Metropolis alone, this is very nearly a vaudeville record for Broadway. Paul Cunning ham writes songs while Miss Ben nett, and for that matter the rest of the world, sings them. The elaborate and beautifully mounted song study with which this team has scored such great success is called Beau Bru1n- mel and Lady Fair" In the cleverly conceived vehicle the two principals are assisted by Specht's Broadway Entertainers, syncopatlng orchestra ranking with the best on the stage, and Milanda and Dade, two very pro- flcient opponents of modern dancing. Beau Brummel and Lady Fair" is due to be one of the most talked of vau- deville offerings seen in the city this season.
 A special added feature of the first half of Anniversary Week, and an act that would be headlined on nine out of every ten vaudeville bills, is Beanstalk." MT. Hart has taken this child's story, popular the" world over and known in every language, and used it as the subject for one of the most novel and unusual vehicles brought out fin vaudeville. The pro- duction IS not only unusual but as tonishing and the efforts of Louis Hart and his supporting company combine in making this a vaudeville act not soon to be forgotten by those witnessing it.
 Arthur Thornton and Nanny King have bundled up lot of songs and laughs in a package they call, "I Play Fiddle" It is character skit handled to perfection by one of the best character comedians and one of the cleverest straight men in the varieties. The material is naturally bright and Thornton and King keep
 it at a high polish.
 Bobby Brooks, a petite maid, and Frank Morgan, who is of the matinee idol type, offer Some Songs and Some Sayings" that combine in mak- ing some act. The bright line or chatter dealing with problems of ev- cry day life is humorous to delight fu1 degree. It is the mishaps and misfortunes of the human race that furnish the comedy element of life and in this instance two capable art ists have enough of these happenings to send their audiences into roars of laughter. Brooks and Morgan also have vocal ability far above the or dinary and this is delivered as an- other, asset of their act
 Another spot on the first of the Anniv CT sary bills that will bear watching when honors are awarded is that filled by Fletcher Clayor's Revue for if vaudeville ever delivered an act to it's audiences sparkling with youth pep and syncopation, then this is it. There is mirth and melody, dance and dialogue, all illuminated by person. ality. What more could revnue have or need to make it pleasing?
 In Lexey and Rome the bill has a pair of dancers whose nimble feet carry them through an act that pleases from beginning to end. The eccentric stepping of this pair is a particularly clever bit of terpsichorean work.
 Some people sing and other people whistle at their work but Clayton and Clayton are artists and sing while they paint, and what is even more unusual they paint in oils. This com bination of attainments as might be supposed forms a decided vaudeville novelty and it is with this offering