Cirrus@Austlit

Revue.

In its review of Moon and Morris's opening production at the Empire Theatre in 1926, the Brisbane Courier records:

'In the revue, Make it Snappy, Ed. Warrington kept strictly to the title all the way through. It is described on the programme as a "musical go-as-you-please," but it is much more than that. The scenes (including a vista of the Thames embankment at night) are beautiful. There is no dragging. The jokes finish, as all good jokes should, when they are at their height. In each of the nine "snaps" there is something either to tickle the funny bone or to delight the eye or the ear. There is an original touch about this revue. As clever and as charming as she is beautiful, Nell Fleming is the Angel of the piece. Alec Kellaway, who is given plenty of scope to use his fine baritone voice, is the Stranger, and he holds the stage alone in the tenth snap. Durham Marcel is the Miser. Ed. Warrington himself represents Power, and the full company Happiness. The arrival of Moon and Morris, in the second snap, is the signal for a cannonade of laughter. Whenever they appear on the stage together the joy of the audience is complete. The most mirth-provoking incidents occur in a lunatic asylum, where George Moon and Ed. Warrington are engaged as painters, and the laughter reaches high-water mark when two of the refractory patients escape from their cells and attack them. In the third snap dainty Kathleen Howard has the stage to herself, and she literally exudes joyousness and charm' (5 July 1926, p.17).