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No matter where Jim Toney and Ann Norman have been hiding lately they certainly are welcome to New York's big time, for their act is' a sure-fire comedy turn which takes its billing from a comic song. Though the outline of the act may be along the same lines as formerly the routine appears mostly new and it moves along with ease. The big punch in the proceeding is Toney's dancing. He is a nut comedian of original style and so is his dancing. Very seldom does an audience indulge in terrific applause over a dance number. But it did at the Colonial Monday night when Toney burlesqued classical dancing, easing it into some real jazz. And that jazz isn't a "Frisco" imitation. Some of the "steps" are alike, but Toney has worked out his own stuff. He wore at the time a small derby and when he uncovered it to display a bald spot the house roared with laughter. The turn opened with Toney choking on cigar smoke and Miss Norman asking him how he dared speak to her, Jim advises her that
she's all wrong and that he isn't trying to "make her." But later offers to marry her saying he'll be satisfied with one woman and that such a thing may be unusual but within the law. Plenty of laughs rewarded a line of kidding and "business" especially that accompanying a "hair-lip number." At the finish Toney remarked that in appreciation of the audience's kindness they ought to do some more steps. He thereupon brought out a small ladder,
providing a comic exit.
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Variety, 54:1 (02/28/1919)