It is quite a sensation to see a really good revue. Hassard Short's Ritz Revue, featuring Charlotte Greenwood is all of that. The appearance of the chorus put us in a good humor. Somehow it lacked the air, so common to choruses, of having been aged in the wood. The girls were this year's stock. A brother critic who is wiser than ourself said they were "fresh". Apparently all of them could dance, and in the course of the show most of them did. Miss Hurlburt in particular deserves praise for her specialty dancing.

Miss Greenwood is a friendly sort of person who takes the audience along with her--even into the bath room scene which is the star performance of the evening, being a riotous combination of two telephones, a dumb waiter, a dumber delivery man, hot water, cold ice and a burglar. Among other good sketches must be classed "Crossed Wires" in which the operator gets off at least six good ones in a row, and "Crystal Wedding Day". This has in it some brand new mirror effects.

The one stupid scene was "The Red Ladies". This was perfectly ordinary revue stuff. Perhaps not many new tunes will be put on the market on account of their popularity here, but one at least was excellent--"When You and I Were Dancing", sung and danced by William Ladd and Madeline Fairbanks. Eddie Conrad made an excellent New York announcer, who therefore spoke no English. The depressed Jimmy Save whose face would light up with almost human intelligence added to the gayety of the evening.

Mr. Short has shown that something can be done after all with this unhappy form of drama. The revue, which opened during the recess, is at the Shubert for only a limited engagement. It calls itself sophisticated. Perhaps it is: at any rate it can't do any harm to see it.