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Courage, is a play constructed largely out of the bright sayings of children as made to a mother whose wisdom and tenderness is that of Dorothy Dix. Tom Barry wrote Courage and Janet Beecher, who has a public, played it. She was an extravagant widow with seven children; these with the exception of the youngest abused her for wasting their inheritance. The one who was loyal was rewarded when the lady next door, who had loved his pretty, boyish face, left him $500,000 when she died. Thus there was plenty dough for everybody.
Just a Minute. There are no lengths to which musical comedy maestros will not venture in the effort to achieve a novelty. In this one, for example, the orchestra is made up of women; the idea would have been a good one if the women could have been taught to play properly. The plot is about a chorine who resists luxurious temptations and achieves fame without undue frivolity.
Ups-A-Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps.