Andre Charlot’s Revue Of 1924

London impresario Andre Chariot entered New York’s crowded revue field with a sly, sophisticated, witty, intimate show made up of songs, dances, and sketches from his West End revues. He also introduced New York audiences to three performers — Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, and Jack Buchanan — whose careers would flourish on both sides of the Atlantic. The show, which played the Times Square Theatre (now a movie house on 42nd Street west of Times Square), offered such highlights as Miss Lillie as a dignified but disoriented Britannia in “March With Me!,” Miss Lawrence crooning “Parisian Pierrot” and “Limehouse Blues,” and Jack Buchanan’s version of the tired businessman trying to get some peace and quiet at home. The success of his first endeavor on Broadway prompted Chariot to follow it up with The Charlot Revue of 1926, which opened November 10, 1925, at the Selwyn Theatre (right next to the Times Square). The triad of Lillie, Lawrence and Buchanan was again on hand, with Miss Lillie as Wanda Allova in a ballet takeoff, Lillie and Lawrence in a sketch as two precocious babies in their prams, Miss Lawrence singing Noël Coward’s moralistic “Poor Little Rich Girl,” and Lawrence and Buchanan in a duet of “A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You.” A third Andre Charlot Revue opened in January 1927 as featured attraction of the “International Edition” of the Earl Carroll Vanities. Jessie Matthews and Herbert Mundin headed the cast.

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