Musical plays are not nearly so popular as they used to be, and revues must be witty, well produced, have an excellent chorus" and well dressed and "generally well Jacted, or they do not run for a week. 'The public "also. "demand something original in them, the usual revue sketches are $0' well and so hackneyed. An out-example of. what the'
fern' revue should be is Noel! Coward's show, "Words and Musi
always entirely original, but even "the Adelphi. Coward, is "not when he is not he sonichow presents a new aspect of the situn-Vion, and manages to convince one. 'The' cleverest, most biting sketch in Fevue is' one entitled "Mad About the Boy." This deals with the infatuation" felt by. girls in Yatious stages of society for some a last scene of the repeating "Send her 'a photograph, send her a photoyh, send her a photograph," as:
"fan's" letter fs shown to him Of course, Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies are de-rightful, "and. spoil one for most other choruses.
There are no musical comedies on iw London, at the moment except "Casanova." The nearest approach to, one, called, I" presume, operette, is "The Dubarry." Here a one-man, or rather a one-woman show." Anny Ahlers in the part.of the Dubarry simply carries the play on her shoulders; she gloriously full of life and. most Fefreshing, but one does not wonder she had a breakdown quite recent= ly. She is very. seldom off the stage, and, when 1:2 the' most part Lor ing and danes very half-heartedly, fe play 1's. had long ran, but Ahlers Levelt shows no lof sucha:.austion—the ery, is to say the Jof it, provineia. aod bad. pro-[vineial at that, anu the other actors entirely fail to' capture or hold attention. One exception to thi Miss Heian Hayes in the part of the Countess, and we do not see ly, enough of her. Without Miss Ahlers, the play would not have run for more than a month at the most.
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