Musical comedy in three acts. Book by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. Music and lyrics by the Duncan Sisters. Produced by Tom Wilkes at the Sam Harris Theatre on December 23, with the following principals:

  Chloe, Aimee Torriani; Harry, Glory Minehart; Uncle Tom, Basil Ruysdael; George Shelby, Robert Halliday; Mrs. Shelby, Helen Case; Augustine St. Clare, Wilbur Cushman; Henrique, Harriet Hoctor; Simon Legree, Frank K. Wallace; Gee Gee, Davis Goodman; Eliza, Florence Martin; Mariette, Nydia D'Arnell; Erasmus Marks, Ashley Cooper; Oophelia St. Clare, Myrtle Ferguson; Topsy, Rosetta Duncan; Eva St. Clare, Vivian Duncan; Danseuse Premiere, Harriet Hoctor; Rastus, Ross Himes.

  IN this musical version of Uncle Tom's Cabin the bad little Topsy holds center stage. All of the dancing and singing and comedy are incidental to her impish pranks. Good little Eva is merely a feeder for her. The Duncan Sisters, who, judging from the wild applause which trails their every line or movement, have an enormous following, handle their title roles in Catherine Chisholm Cushing's rather novel musical rehash of the familiar story.

  Rosetta Duncan is Topsy, a little female-minstrel sort of Topsy. She is refreshingly natural in all her cavortings, and the audience keeps her on stage as long as possible. During her encore number, "When it's sweet onion time in Bermuda," she climbs over the footlights and passes out the tiny scallions, much to the amusement of an audience accustomed to having roses tossed at a time like this.

  There is a certain amount of novelty attached to the idea of seeing slaves dance to the crack of Simon Legree's whip and to watch little Eva get up from a dead faint and start to jazz. In addition to the fun-making of the Duncan Sisters, the real high lights are the singing of Basil Ruysdale, bass barytone, in the role of Uncle Tom, and the beautifully rhythmic dancing of the piccaninny chorus, the London Palace Theatre dancers.