Davis and Pelle

Two boys with hand balancing of a very good grade. They look well in purple skin vests, white tights and black shoes. The boys work on a carpet. Some of their tricks could be made to appear sensational if properly built up. One is a hand strength trick that no other balancers have ever attempted in vaudeville. Little is made of it. They do a new hand lift, also a head and heel balance. The act opens in "three" and remains there. They could do better in "one." A few weeks in the sticks for them to develop showmanship will do more for them than anything else. All hand balancers should study what that little throw for the finish of each trick by the Rath Brothers did for that act. These boys are just as good in their way, but they have not fallen into it naturally the way the Raths did. The same may be said for most of the hand balancers. Davis and Pelle have everything, including music, but the showmanship, and they have some of that. But they need more. Then they will find a demand.

Variety, 54:7 (04/11/1919)