Nelson and Chain

Singing and comedy.

Nelson and Chain opened intermission with their newly arranged comedy double, entering on tricycles, wearing top hats and street clothes. They walloped out the comedy honors of the bill, getting but a few less laughs than Walter C. Kelly who held the next to closing spot. The "Jennie Dear" travesty number makes a good axis around which most of the comedy revolves, and Eddie Nelson's Egyptian snake burlesque dance, an ancient travesty, recently revived and popularized by Johnnie Dooley, collected a string of laughs. Chain has added the "Coal Pile" song, written at Pelham Bay where Dell entertained the Gobs for the cause of Democracy. The Introduction by Nelson' could be broadened and a verse might be written. This team, for their short term of experience, have developed into a standard comedy turn and should find no trouble.

Variety, 54:8 (04/18/1919)