Sylvia Loyal & Co.
Sylvia Loyal & Co. the company consisting of a man assistant on stage and a flock of pigeons, with a French poodle. Their act is trying to do pantomime that means nothing, and slows the running.
“Dances of the Cities.”
17 Mins.; Full Stage. An elaborate dancing act in which the steps of old time, as well as the modern are demonstrated in an artistic environment. The stage is set with a huge gilt frame and the dancers appear as in a picture. Each dance is named for a city, and each city represented by an electric-lighted drop. The cities are New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, New York, a suburban locality, and Washington, the latter showing an elaborate picture of Uncle Sam Columbia, the North, the South and other symbolic figures. Laughlin and Shaw are featured. The costumes are fresh and new, the dances well executed and the act looks good for the best time. It is produced by Boyle Woolfolk.
Howard and Helen Savage
Howard and Helen Savage opened. This turn should close if it must do one or the other, because the opening is too pleasant to waste so early. Miss Savage, for a sharpshooter, is a bit of a prima donna, a diva and a beauty. She has a melting approach, a chummy roadster figure and dentist-ad teeth. Howard is a dignified party, very businesslike and matter of fact. He announces his sister when she goes aboard to the rear of the floor to shoot things on the stage, and he bids her au revoir very dryly when he shoots balloons off her brunette crown. It is a very showmanly turn, perhaps too familiar in the Mid-West to gain the full reward of Miss Savage’s development in personality and accomplished. In the East, or perhaps in England, this pair should get raising of eyebrows.
Annette Kellerman
Annette Kellerman, presenting her own review, headlined. She has three cracking good vaudeville acts with her. They amused while she made her changes. Alton and Allen, two boys, danced. Sid Lewis raved on, while Oakes and De Lour did some ballroom stepping, besides some cyclonic eccentric fox-trotting, but though Miss Kellerman surrounds herself with an A1 cast she is still the star. She opened with toe dancing, coming back for a couple of gags, and Annette has improved her speaking voice. Going to a tight wire and from that to a full dress, doing an English Johnny number, and from that to her tank. She also proved a show-stopper and is a star who takes bows with her company.
Fred Lewis
Fred Lewis, a fast coming singer, is a chap that will bear watching, Lewis is doing a different act than when last seen around here dressing it in a comedy manner. He has some smart talk and gets laughs through his entire 14 minutes. Here’s another act that could get away on the two-a-day.
Bobby Adams and Jewell Barnett
Bobby Adams and Jewell Barnett, a blonde and a red-head came on for the first hit of the evening. Miss Barnett, a good looking auburn haired beauty, officiates at the piano, while Miss Adams, a patootie of the blonde type sings songs with a little different twist. Both girls do a single numbers and harmonize on their ballads. For an encore the girls did a number called “Uhu” that proved a riot. Here’s an act that is ready for the big time for an early position having youth, looks and talent.
Hall, Levan and Miller
The show was opened by Hall, Levan and Miller, a three-man tumbling act with one of them, apparently Levan doing black-face comedy. They mix straight tumbling with a lot of comedy falls and neck spins.
Panzer and Sylvia
The heavy task of next to closing fell to Panzer and Sylvia, two men one doing comedy and the other a policeman. The policeman makes his entrance through the audience. After singing several numbers and telling a lot of wise cracks: new and old, they do some very good hand to hand balancing, putting them off to a good hand.
Grace Ayers and Brother
Grace Ayers and Brother, Grace a tall, handsome girl and “brother” a midget, who shows that his height cannot interfere with his merit, go through a fast and snappy roller skating routine. Grace making two beautiful changes in costume and walking away with all honors of the act. It is a well done turn and deserves the better time.
Harry Kahne
Harry Kahne, “The Master Mind,” followed. Kahne works in “two” in front of a pretty special cloth drop, with the assistance of three blackboards. He asks the audience to suggest names, etc., which he writes backward, upside down, and several other ways, with touches of comedy intermixed, all of this done with a high polish of showmanship. For his closing trick he writes the headlines of a newspaper, starting with the last letter, finishing with the first: divides an eight figure number if four parts so that it will add up: the audience calling out name of any State in United States, he giving population of the capital and what it is noted for, doing all five stunts simultaneously. Kahne is a master showman and has an act of true merit.