Mel Klee

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Mel Klee goes after his audience promptly and has them with him from the get-away, even if he has to step across the footlights to the top of the piano to accomplish his purpose. His talk is all bright and pointed and his numbers score unmistakably. He has a robust voice for rag numbers and makes use of a sympathetic tremulous break on rising notes, effective for ballads. The ballad about midway of the routine was a bull’s-eye, coming as it did after the rather rough kidding of the rest of the acts on the bill. Some of this stuff is going to get Klee in Dutch with the rest of the bill one of these days.

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