Evening star., 1925-08-03
kEITH'S-Elizab Brice and
Orchestra.

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Elizabeth Brice and her company
of musicians and dancers head a fine
bill at keithS this week. Miss Brice
deserves all sorts of credit for giving
us something new. In addition to
singing several new songs in fetch
ing manner, she shows cleverness in
winning additional applause for her
company through appeals to the au.
dience. The encores were too nu-
merouS to mention. A novelty was
introduced by displaying comic pic.
lures to cover old song fayorites,
while the orchestra carried the air.
Some expert dancing also is furnished
by the trap drummer and a colored
boy
The group of singers from the Mexi-
can Grand Opera Company provide a
welcome treat to the audience, their
efforts being rewarded with hearty
applause. Rudolfo Hoyos, the bari
ton, has an excellent voice; Carlos
Mejia, the tenor, and Diana Milicua,
the colorature soprano, also are quite
pleasing. Their number is notable
chiefly for the singing of folk songs,
the harmony of the weird airs win
ming unstinted applause.
Van Horn and Inez open with a
sensational skating act; Mercer Tenn
Kitty Kelly" sings several new songs
and gives an unusual acrobatic
dance, and Stuart Casey and Mildred
Warren offer their old sketch, "Fhe
Fog" but it was so good that it
won applause that shared honors with
the topliners. Casey does an English
dude very well, while Miss Warren,
from one of the big revues, won many
laughs with her slang phrases. Harry
Rose-he must be a brother of Jack
made hit with songs sung inimita-
bly,, and Nella Arnaut and her broth
ers have a musical and dancing act
that was well received. The house
attractions filled out the program.
oh. yes, there was another-George
Jessel. the we'll known Hebrew. come
dian. He was on the bill with two
young women in identically the same
act he brought here on his former
trip
STRAND-Opens New Season.
The Strand Theater yesterday made
it's 1925-1926 Introductory bow to an
enthusiastic and capacity audience,
which rewarded the offerings with
laughter and applause.
Heading the vaudeville acts is a pre-
tentious music and dance number fea-
turing Andree and Del Val in a fine
exhibition of the Argentine tango and
other dances. including the Apache
dance. Some will recall having seen
Andree and Del Val in Earl CAROLS s
play, THE Rat" last season. They
bring their own music. the Argentine
Orchestra. which serves filling, rib
tickling entertainment and would be
a good number by itself.
Smith and Barker offer a clever bit
by Paul Dickey entitled Crossroads" /"
with funny situations and witty lines.
Lee Alton and Cecil Allen, two old
favorites, were warmly received in
their skit of funny songs and clever
dancing; Jules F'urst entertained with
acrobatic balancing on wooden blocks,
and popular song and dance numbers,
billed as Versatility" were presented
by Wedge, Van and Wedge to round
out a good program.
The photoplay pictures Alice Joyce,
Kenneth Harlan and Walter Long in
white Man." an adaptation of
George Agnew Chamberlain's maga-
zine story of an aristocratic English
girl who fees in an aeroplane with an
aviator she has never seen before
Nather than marry Il man she does not
love. This perilous journey termi-