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Singing and musical accompaniment.
Eva Shirley and her Jazz Band compare more favorably with the best of jazz combinations that have played in and around New York since the craze for eccentric syncopation started. The
five-piece band, opens .the act with an overture that is full of ginger, using piano, muted cornet, violin, saxo and drums and getting the real article in jazz out of them without any unnecessary blaring. Eva. gets into the proceedings with a song, "Falling In Love With Someone," sung off stage. This builds, up a nice entrance for her. A song of more recent vintage should be substituted for "Someone." A pretty waltz number with three of the band
playing the miramba was put over exceptionally well by Miss Shirley, who possesses a singing voice much above the average. "Mammy of Mine," with one of the jazz boys playing a counter melody on a: single string fiddle, and the rest of the band grinding out close harmony scored for a ten strike. Al Roth, a shimmy dancer, who has the shivery thing beaten to a whisper, made the Palace regulars sit, up and take. .notice, which means a lot when it is remembered that the Palace has seen Frisco and dozens of other top notch shimmy wrigglers. The violinist also pulls a neat bit of eccentric stepping. The finish with the band
jazzing away at a mile a minute, gait and Miss Shirley singing, makes a corking closing number for an act that should find the going easy anywhere. Monday matinee and night the Shirley turn closed the show and naturally.
...suffered from the position. On Tues-
day afternoon the act was moved, up to
..third spot where it grabbed off its full
share of the applause honors. It's a
big timer without question.
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Variety, 54:12 (05/16/1919)