Strut Miss Lizzie Rector, Grace performer Green, Cora performer Theatrical Performance 1922-06-19 Times Square An all colored revue that glorifies the creole beauty in two acts, 13 scenes. Music by Henry Creamer. Lyrics by Turner Layton. Staged by Henry Creamer. Opened 19 June at the Times Square Theatre, moved 10 July 1922 to the Earl Carroll Theatre, and closed 26 August 1922 after 80 performances. It was one of many black revues hoping to follow in Shuffle Along's glory. The Times had serious reservations about the evening, concluding it was "happiest when its people sing and dance." The high-stepping dancing was described, not unkindly, as "raucous." With the exception of Grace Rector this revue presented few great dancers; but a female chorus of 21 girls and four boys startled the reviewers: "Gilda Gray's intrepid whirlpoolings in the Follies are but chaste inertia by comparison" (Percy Hammond, New York Tribune 20 June 1922). (Norton 1922.22). Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Stearns, Marshall and Jean Stearns: Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Macmillan (1968). Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.337