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    Sprightly songs, pretty faces, fluffy ruffles and engaging dances are provided in "The Beauty Shop," at Poli's this week.
    Raymond Hitchcock, for whom the role of Dr. Arbutus Budd, the boss of the beauty parlor, was written, starred in "The Beauty Shop," and A. H. Van Buren will play the role in the Poli production.
    The lines of "The Beauty Shop" are full of fun that is agreeably free from coarseness, and carry forward a narrative that is never dull. According to the plot, old Dr. Budd has a highly lucrative practice in making one chin grow where two grew before. At the beginning of the play he is hard pressed by creditors. Driven to desperation, the doctor starts for Corsica to seek a fortune that has been left by a wealthy uncle to the doctor's ward, and further developments of the story occur in the land of feuds.
    As Dr. Budd, Mr. Van Buren will sing "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go," and "Saturday Afternoon on Broadway." Marguerite Starr will have the role of Lola, a Spanish dancer who captures Dr. Budd. Cecil Kohlhaas will be the Anna, Dr. Budd's ward. Ben Taggart will be Daniel Webster Briggs, Dr. Budd's lawyer. Florence Rittenhouse will be Vivian, bookkeeper in Dr. Budd's beauty shop. Blanche Friderici has an admirable role in Natalie Panatella, the belle of Corsica, who nearly marries Dr. Budd. Others in the big cast will be Eugene Desmond, Howard Lang, Cecil Bowser, J. Hammond Dailey, Imogene Fairchild, Helen Goodhue, Betty Farrington, R. Richard Ruland, Virginia Wynkoop, Marguerite Allen, Belle Flower, Helene Goodhue, Marguerite LaPierre, Virginia Moncure, Louise Daredee, Dorothy Vance, Marie Dorrs, Evelyn Scott, Gertie Rose, Blanche Sterling, George Busby, Jack Ellis, James Lillis, Tom Gregory, Albert Cook, Allen North, Victor Snyder, Edwin Kauff.

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Unknown, "Current Offerings At Playhouses," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Friday, 26 March, 1916, p. MT2.