The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-23
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 Excellent vaudeville abounds at the Lyric for the last half of the week, and that conclusion is drawn from the hearty applause of the audience. not from a whimsical mood of the reviewer. A glitter of the circus and some honest-to goodness circus acts are presented by the kitaros. novelty risley and barrel artists, who toss barrels. and humans, too, with thelr feet like the royal chef of the Greek dive losses hot flapjacks from the skillet to the plate. The Kitaros come last on the program, very prob ably arranged that way just to oHer a sensational whirlwind finish, and the act succeeds admirably we'll in doing so, and further. in getting liberal applause, there's no question but it's the best offered.
 Rose and Bunny Brill, the comedy girls open the program. Their act IS the weakest on the bill. and the hard est on the eyes, particularly to the eyes of the baldhead row. when the dressing room scene is shown. even though the lights are dimmed.
 The Two Ruzellas, offering a musical stew, are exceptionally clever and were forced to answer many en- cores. The man with his flute, saxa- phone and clarionet and the lady at the piano compose duo of talented musicians who intermingle some good comedy with their playing to the evil dent delight of the audience.
 Follow Me-" variety fantasy with girls, songs, steps and pep. fea- turing Mile. Vanity, disclosed some talented singers. some good dancers and many pretty costumes. The T l. I,1 but there's no use trying to analize the act it is all worth while and displays some delicacies that must be seen to be appreciated.
 Joe Rome and Lou Gaut, the long and short of it, or, better still, billed as when extremes meet" are two fairly funny guys who cut a number of antics in an act of their own, later appearing to better advantage, how ever, by furnishing the comedy for the Jap barrel artist. Their attempts to do the strenuous foot-balancing offered by the Kitaros proved anus ing as well as ridiculous. and had the good effect of keeping the audience in good humor. The shows good one. all of it, including the picture featuring the favorite Universal star, Frank Mayo, in The First Degree.- R. w. k.
 
 ''The boss looks up from his desk Thursday night and says: The drama tic editor is sick. you go to the Bijtu.' Now the boss is the big boy, so at o'clock I goes down, and say-you know, while I'm sorta reckon I'm glad I goes to the By-Joe:
 You see, they's a right smart goin on down there that makes feller laugh, and then again there's whole lot that you just sorta, laugh because you're supposed to laugh.
 "When l first goes in there's a big crowd sstandin' up waitin' for the other crowd to get out, and the ar well, it ain't the best ever. But finally the picture is over and the first crowd gets out and me and the rest Of the gang and the feller l took along with me gets seats
 "We ain't hardly got settled good when the curtain goes up and there's bunch of seals on the stage .Pickard's Seals they called 'em, and they're just about as intelligent as anything on the bill. They pitched balls around and beat cymbals n everything, and one of them even played How Dry l Am on a horn. Of course that made everybody laugh, but they was a few in the crowd, including the feller l went with. who felt bad.
 "The next act was man and woman. The woman had almost bass voice and she sung lot of blues She wore short skirt once and danced. The feller played fid- dle and he wasn't bad atal, but when the woman came on the stage with the short skirt they didn't nobody look at him any more.
 "Then there was Frank A. Ford and company with a slit about a man getting in dutch with a chorus girl and having fian-you know he was going to marry this other girl. So he gets his friend to fix things up with the chorus girls, which the audience don't never see. It's right funny, specially when the feller's fian-fiancee-I think it was, comes in the friends room walkin in her sleep. She thinks he's old King Tut.
 Alton and Allen is the next act. My there's handsome pair of men, only one of them wears false mus tache. They are good dancers. too. and shake four mean hoofs.
 The last act is called the Cos mopolitan Dancers They're sort of highbrow. but us clever fellers Tn the crowd liked them. They's two men and three women in the gang and they dance Spanish. Russian ana all sorts Valentino will have some thing to live up to when he comes to town. Of course we thought more of the women that we did the men but one time a man come out by him. self and we watched him good then.
 "William Russell in The Crusader was the picture. It's about love and romance and such things. The fel- Ter with me said he knowed all about them because he read The Nights of the Round Table, I ain't never read that but I'm goin' to. If it's any. thing like Ten Nights in Barroom' I'll like it."-V. H. L.