Judge — September 12, 1925 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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* TMT MAN AS So StinGy HE TEED 2D Seno A AUGHT I HE new Shubert revue, “Gay I Paree,” is a good show; I enjoyed it a lot; but if you ask me why, I doubt that I'll be able to tell you. There is nothing in it that stands out particularly in my memory; I can’t remember a single joke or tune; yet the thing as a whole gave me several amusing hours. That is at times the way with music shows. You find your- self agreeably diverted while you are in the theater and yet you no sooner hit the street again than you can’t recall any more about the’ ex- hibit than you can about General Grant’s mother-in-law or the topog- raphy of Polynesia. This, in a way, is a virtue in a music show, for when you can remember-one or two things about such a show with perfect dis- tinctness, it generally indicates that all the rest of the dingus was so bad that the one or two things stood out brilliantly in comparison. But where you can remember no one thing but only the show as a whole, the indication is that the boys in the box-office won’t get a day off for some time to come. Since inditing the above para- graphs my eyes have fallen upon a program of “Gay Paree” lying on my writing table. I lay hold of it and note that many of the ingredients that go to make the show a good one are certainly anything but revolu- tionary in novelty. There is, for example, the musical number called “The Queen of Sheba” that you can visualize with one eye shut; there is the number called “A Study in Legs,” ditto; there is the number in which the girls represent various perfumes while a gent in a turban MY UNCLE WAS A POLICEMAN — WE WENT WALKWG I YELOUSTONE Bere be GOT His Feet ANGHT IM A Canton f/ sings something about the purple, mystic Orient; there is Chic Sale’s old vaudeville act; there is a song called “Wonderful Girl”; there is a number in which a Confederate and a Union soldier tell us in song that all is forgotten and forgiven; there is a “Venetian Night” number; (Continued on page 24) comicbooks.com