Allan Rogers

Singing and piano.

It is not often that a straight singing turn, especially when tbat singer Is a man, can virtually run away with the show, but that is just what happened Monday night when Allan Rogers, a young man from Chicago, worked the audience up to such a pitch that it seemed as if he would not be permitted to leave the stage. This he was only, able to do after he had made a little speech of thanks. Mr. Rogers is a newcomer in vaudeville. This might have been discovered by the close observer who noticed the mannerism of the the concert singer, but Mr. Rogers had not emitted more than a few notes before the audience sat hushed, realizing that before them stood a man with most unusual vocal ability. He sang "Giannini Mia" for his opening number. This was used last week by Yvette Rugel and the week before by Ruby Norton, and while the song has been done very often in vaudeville, Mr. Rogers scored a tremendous bit with it. In offering his next two numbers, a Scotch song and an English ditty, he explained that he had sung them to the crippled soldiers in London and he finished with a song about a blinded French soldier. It was an excellent repertoire to show off the beautiful quality of his tenor voice, and the music lovers were not slow in showing their appreciation. Vaudeville has a singer In this young tenor, of whom much will be said. He was accompanied on the piano by William Silvano Thunder, a well known local pianist, who replaced William Dexter, the programmed assistant, reported ill.

Variety, 54:6 (04/04/1919)