The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-02
ADJUSTMENTS
AT THE LYRIC

Al THE IL NlO
 Mile. Mimi and Pomme and the Eight Hippodrome Girls is the fea- ture act at the Lyric for the last half of this week. It Is so far superior to the usual dance number that a comparison is completely out of or der. The sameness of the act is in the grotesque figures the girls cut on the floor and the usual high kick. which some people call artistic. It must all depend upon ones point O. view. The entire act would seem to emphasize the oft quoted. "Ain't Ma ture Grand?" The costuming and the precision with which the chorus dances is really the worthwhile part of the act.
 None of the show is really bad, which is not meant to indicate it's better than usual though it almost invariably happens that all vaude- vile bills fall somewhat short in at least one respect.
 Hubert Dyer, assisted by Ben Con- yer, opens in "A Laugh a Second" and lives pretty well up to the title. an extra large pair of pants, and shoes of the same proportions, which Conyer wears. The way he mixes things up in attempting to mount the trapeze really Is funny.
 Moments of Melody" with Laura Ormsbee and Jack Neal. is one of the best of the entire five offerings Jack Neal appealed tremendously to the audience by reason of his exceptional voice, which he uses to good advan- tage. Besides he is an accomplished pianist. Miss Ormsbee is equally as good and plays the violin well.
 An Appointment" with Joe Rol- land and Elsie Ray, introduces two good humorists. The scene Is laid about a typical dinner date in which the lady is entirely too fastidious to suit the purse of her escort.
 "Darktown Foolery," with Worth Willing and Blackface Gessner, is practically the same as its predeces- sors in that line. Its redeeming fea- ture Is the ability of the com edians to dance. The usual Easop's Fables. Pathe News and Fox comedy are shown.-R. w. K.
 AT LoEW5S BIJoU
 Charles F. Strickland and his en- sicians, who have been the headline attraction 0f the vaudeville bill at Loew's Bijo1 during this week, will close their engagement here with Sat urday nights performance, thus of fering only few more performances to see this musical company in their happy conglomeration of syncopa- tion. There are also such acts as the offering of the Donald Sisters, the daring women gymnasts, as well as the combination of music and comedy of Monte and Lyons and other acts of merit. Movie fans have found much entertainment in the screen feature, Where the North Begins" and especially in the fine work of the famed police dog Rim -tin-tin. around which centers much of the action of this stirring drama of the north.
 "CUDDLE UP"
 Popularity always paves the road to success and that is why o. E. Wee, "Cuddle Up' opens two-day en- gagement at the Jefferson Theatre today, will be welcome visitor to Birmingham.
 "Cuddle Up" is founded on the liveliest sort of comedy, with many tuneful melodies and large number of beautiful girls in the chorus which brands it as one of the best singing shows of the season. There are many catchy songs that stand out" and are in the memory of the audience after the performance as they are hummed and whistled after the drop of the final curtain.
 "Cuddle Up" this season is rich in its comedy interest, very entrancing in it's tuneful qualities and fascinat- ing in the element of suspense, which is necessary to plot of sort that the author has written.
 "BLOSSOM TIME"
 In "Blossom Time" the musical comedy problem has been solved by the Messrs. Shubert, and the solu tion seems simple--so obvious that the wonder grows that it was so tardlly reached. No more will jazz assail the ears of the large public which yearns for melody for beauty in it's higher fare. The Shuberts have revealed a promised land, where mu- sical comedy means rhythm, grace, mt sical intelligence.
 Blossom Time" is a three-act musical comedy whose score was ad- m.rably adapted by Sigmund Rom berg from the melodies of Franz Schubert. The piece, has had a tre- mendous vogue in Paris, Vienna, Rome and London, and it will un- duplicate it's European suc- cess in this city, as it did in New York, where it ran for two years.
 It comes to the Jefferson Theatre for tbree days, beginning Thursday, Novent CT 8.
 ..DAYTINIE WIVES"
 It is not the business mans stenog- rapher or secretary whoo is at fault when her employer begins to slip away from his wife, but more often it is the wifes fault entirely, is the grapher or secretary who is at fault