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Singing and comic dialogue.
A backdrop in full stage showing an aviation field and barracks is the setting for a girl dressed in Italian peasant costume to stroll on the stage singing an Italian number which she quickly changes to the waltz song from "Flora Bella" which takes her out of her character impersonation. The man enters from above in a well constructed stage dirigible and sings with her the last bars of the song. A good routine is employed and the woman uses Italian dialect to results, the man doing "straight" feeding up to the laugh points in nice style. A ballad solo here slows up the act just when it needed speed. The woman returns in a velvet aviation suit and steps into the dirigible, raised while they sing a double comedy version of an operatic aria. Some more comedy talk and a patriotic number finishes. The ballad retards a clever couple with a good idea. That they both possess appearance and ability makes it certain the act can score if they change the material about a bit.
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Variety, 53:8 (01/24/1919)