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ILDA GRAY DOUBLES IN|
PROGRAM AT ALBEE
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Famous Dancer Is Seen in Stage Show and in Film
for Screen; "We Americans’ at Keith's Good
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By Frank Aston
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* Qilda Gray, the sheba of shimmy,
burg address at the moment George
Sidney as the father was reading
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hook them into a riot on the open-
telegram announcing their son had
Ang show at the Albee Sunday atter-
died in. service,
‘We Americans’
is not necessarily
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oon, Gilda was there in person.
boo-hoo picture; but itundentably
Very much in person:
as the star of
8 a sober study.
‘We believe adults
Ther own dancing revue.
which. in=
will relish it
cludes eight sprightly gazelles and
‘The story
tells of Jewish immi-
the team, Amerique an
Neville
In
grants who
cannot
adjust
them-
‘contrast
to Miss
Gras
'§ muscular
selves to the new world, but whose
exhibits the team presented two ex-
in the
manner of
children
yor
America
romp
The
tremely pretty picture-dance:
act
is
handsomely:
frowsy
daughter |
little
Gilda's
eventually leaves the
id, altho it struck us as being
flat because she is ashamed to bring |
si
ty
out of
proportion,
and it
there her party friends.
The son
Seemed, too, that the
affair was not
spe
nds most of his evenings on the
directed with
the
¢
se
and
‘skill
streets.
Which might have been shown.
Night school
however, puts the |
But it does present
the shimmy
parents
in a position
to.
uphold
Yady—and she does shimmy
After
daughter's idea of respectability; and
the World War puts the mother on «
jan opening number in which she
‘and undergoes a song of the
society
level with the perky lady from high
‘That,
in
turn,
lets the
Shoutin
wz variety, she offers an ori-
The
ental impression’ with swaying skirts
daughter marry profitably
‘and undulations.
Then comes the
girl is Patsy Ruth Miller
who
is
Sensation of her repertoire
a brief
surprisingly good.
but
inspiring
tremble
of
every
‘Some telling scenes are worked out
muscle visible to the eye. An
since
within the home and
the
‘hol
‘most of the muscles are in sight.
it
‘The war touch Is rather weak and
lows that the shivering 1s prac-
the ending gets a little hysterical
universal
The
eagerness
But
this is a
sensible production,
ly
worthy of serious attention
‘with which the packed house howled
for more indicates that Miss Gray
‘Will enjoy a satisfactory
a com
ting stay at the Albee.
Beery ard Hatton
.
¢ feature picture
Iso. present
Gilda Gray.
It
ts
“The
Dev:
Shoot It Up
r.” being a story
of
white
victimized by a dre
dful clan
of
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat-
a daring
ton have been sorely in need of im-
ibetans and
saved by
to eivill-
proved materials for thelr comedy, |
‘Englishman
who takes
her
fon after she has danced in the
In
“The Big Killing” at the Lyric,
witch houses of no
thet
n India.
It
improvement is evident
‘a somber,
melodramatic
thing.
For one thing, the picture starts
chockful of excitement and butchery
off elaborately
Creating a situation
displaying some more
of
Miss
of
melodrama as
feudists of
the
s
convolutions,
tho
the
Ozarks get into a bloody
neounter
ed away
eensors unkindly have hi
ns.
This section is quite serious and 4s|
Bome of the vertebra variat
played and directed with great skill,
‘The vaudeville show includ
Hap
Then
‘whoop!
Into
the
melee
rd and a girl clo
gon a
stumble Messrs. Beery and Hatton
in
t wire,
d Harry Frankel and
who
have
been
faking as sharp-
Joe Dunley;
Cincinnatians,
who
shooters at a nearby carnival and
Tangle their dignity in a blackface
who are dragged into the feud to
shatter turn, They were
cordially
hel
with the killing. Being utterly |
Harry Will-
useless with firearms, the gentlemen
‘welcomed back home.
sey’s Albee Entertainers
id Hy C.
present
meander thru a series of regulation
ludicrous pictures as. they
‘organ specialty round out the
variet)
y end.
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