Amerique and Neville — CWB article clipping [9a9363363a]

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the + doing in dead seriousness the stuff that convuleed dad—
Mr. Duffy coming out with a garter for a necktie, and again with « pair
ot suspenders for an Ascot) Jim Harkins telling’ vintage jokes; Jimmy
O'Brien playing in the manner of the mauve ‘or at least only
slightly ater. If they had done it with tongues in cheeks ft might have
clicked. But the combination of burlesque and naievete was its own

weakness,
Will Morrissey opened the affair with an intimate talk with the
customers about the financial disasters accompanying ® new show, and

was interrupted from time to time by bill collectors who léft with
checks of which Mr. Morrissey himself apparently had not much hope
Then Midgie Miller hurried om for a family quarrel with her distracted
roducer-spouse, and so an intimal josphere was established. Bot!

ie Miller, and Morrissey were aa winning as ever but they couldn't
swing the show. When the tithe came in the second act for their joint
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deliver a won-in-the-ninth stroke and save their p ion, they dis.

Inyed no elan and let things slide, Mr. Morrissey sidling off stage and
Kriss Miller going Into a dance with Don Kennelly.

‘A neatly loose inebriate dance was tone by the Morosco Brothers,
Douglas Sthnbury sang earnestly and well, the Markert Dancers were
excellent, Jimmy Carr and his orchestra were partly good and partly
pretty and effective, and Amerique and
Frank Farnum was programmed but did not
r. Morrissey has the makings of a summer show

a consultation.

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but needs to cal