The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
AT LOEW,S RILnu

Beau Brummel," at Loew's Bijou, is love story that will always be en- tertaining, in reading or on the stage. John Barrymore, supported by Mary AstOr, and a noted cast, is making 1t doubly so in the screen presentation.
 The H0neymooners" is a comedy sa- tire, dealing with the trials of another much loved man. The play is humor- ous and amusing, presenting something new in vaudeville.
 Reviewing the skit closely for head line honOrs, one comes to Jan Rubini. emhIent violin virtuosi. Rubini has won much fame for his compositions and his playing. He held his audience under a charm.
 Frank ("peggy") Jones lived up to his billing as the monOpede wonder. He is offering a novelty act which brought down the house and made him a leading favorite with the audience. He proved himself dancer in spite of his wooden leg, as well as comedian and musician,
 The two Morton brothers are offering a novelty in the form of hormonica playing. They bring the lOwly harp up from the plaything of street urchins to real musical instrument. J. NJ. C.,
 AT THE LYRIC
 To Jean Sothern, stage and screen star, goes credit for making this week s bill at the Lyric theatre one of the most enjoyable in months.
 Miss Sothern comes to Birmingham as an added attraction to the usual five act show, brought here by the Lyric management at heavy expense to pro. vide an additional bit of big league vaudeville. The manner in which her khn than ample Justification for importing her from the large cities.
 Her act carries her through charae- terisations of sailor, a farmer lad and well-dressed man-about-town. In all her parts she carries herself we'll. POr- traying her characters with a typical song or two and little batter, but re- taining just the right amount of femin- inity and her strong personal charm, she won the instant approval of the entire audience. At the close of each section of her act wave after wave of applause came from the appreciative audience.
 Gladys Buckridge and Billy Casey, with Arthur DeSalve at the piano, close the bill The trio is remarkably able and it is to be regretted that crowded bill necessitates this act being placed at the foot.
 Another artist appearing this week is Leola Lucey, soprano. Acts of her type, although not met with favor during the past few years, are staging comeback, and the success of her efforts Monday showed that Birming- ham audiences are again appreciative of q touch of real art at vaudeville performance.
 The bill is opened by the Ernests in humorous gymnastic speciality. This pair has apparently solved the problem of making gymnastic act popular. They do it by injecting a good deal of ,humOr into the action and were met with good response.
 Betty Byron and William Haig offered a skit called '"The Book of Vau- deville." In it they set about prepar- ing an act for the stage, going through the various stunts said to be necessary to successful act As has been the case with other acts at the Lyric re- gently, their youth was responsible, in large measure, for their success. They appeared rather to be two youngsters, playing at vaudeville" than two ae- complished performers.
 Fannie Simpson and Earl Dean, ap- bearing in "ChOp Stewy," provided good means of putting the audience in R receptive mood for Miss Sothern' act. Their skit was entirely comedy