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The opening romp, "Flying High," is given in three scenes. Reeves still introduces the chorus in vogue. The male department is made up by Andy Lewis, Billy Inman, George Scott and Reeves himself. Lewis contributed the majority of his old race-track offering, substituting an aeroplane for the horse. This alone is enough material for the whole show. Lewis changed into his familiar Yossel Hachievitch character for the burlesque. Reeves made his entrance with a topical number called "I'm the Same Old Al," wherein he asks for the credit and likewise the dough. He worked throughout the burlesque and helped a lot. Blanche Martin heads the list of female principals, which also includes Blanche Curtis and Zella Russell. Others include, Marie Brandon (toe dancing) and May Holden. A series of living pictures came during the action of the burlesque; the idea was rather good but the execution poor.
Miss Martin is a favorite in Chicago. Her popularity was evident by the Sunday assemblage.
The show easily surpasses anything the Columbia management has offered this season. This in the classiest, girliest beauty show that has struck town this season. The quartet of male principals work like a well oiled machine. However, at one point Lewis overstepped and shadowed an otherwise clean performance. Impersonating a bogus Duke in the burlesque, he is engaged to endeavor to disgust the mother of a wealthy title hunter, whose sole ambition is to marry a nobleman. Andy not only disgusted the young woman, but everyone else. Scraping food from the floor and his own head and then eating it is not for the good of the "Beauty Show." Despite this misstep, the men, in combination with the several excellent women who handle parts, kept the show on the jump from curtain to curtain. Miss Russell's pianolog was excellently selected. Her perfect delivery and nifty appearance does the routine full justice. She would go well in any big time vaudeville house. One of the best bits of the show is a "souse" scene showing a corridor in a hotel. Misses Crawford, Morton, George and Mannion are given ample opportunity. Miss Curtis imitates the same character, bringing back memories of Sallie Cohen and Bertie Fowler. The costumes, scenery and (of course) the chorus are in a class by themselves. Al Reeves has not overlooked a detail.
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Variety 24:2 (09/16/1911)