Lubin and Lewis closed the bill with their blackface offering, in which the clever hard shoe dancing of one of the member’s proved the biggest feature and a good applause winner. The talk is along old lines and accordingly was only moderately received despite the fact that the comic and straight man are both good.
The Jean Gordon Players, two men as Scotch Highlanders, a girl in army uniform and character woman, offered a pleasing singing sketch. The good voices of the men and the attractive girl, who has a pleasing voice, together with the character woman injecting just enough comedy to break the monotony, sent the act over nicely. One of the men also displays considerable ability with dancing.
Maye Hunt announces by slide her entertaining activities “Over There.” Starting with a laughing song, Miss Hunt gets some laughs with talk that follows, in which a plant in an upper box is used to advantage. She finished to good hand with a comedy number, where she distributes flower among the audience.
Charles Henry’s pets opened interestingly with canine posing. During a lowering of the curtain a live animal assumed the pose formerly held by a stuffed dog, fooling many during the change.
Maurice Powers and Vernon Wallace started slowly with talk on a bench, but the good verses gradually lifted the pace and they finished to good applause with a comedy wedding number.
Nelson Story and Elsie Clark registered strongly in third spot. Miss Clark offering special comedy songs and stories, accompanying herself on the piano and also giving a selection on the xylophone neatly disguised as a piano.
Murray K. Hill completed the bill with a monolog, sections of which were good for laughs. “Kay-O,” dealing with the dug traffic, proved a timely King offering and gave Reece Gardner, an opportunity for portraying a “dope,” which he did in a creditable manner.
Jerome and Albright followed, and stopped the show with their final number, “Hesitation Blues,” which contained lines bordering close to suggestiveness. One of the men is at the piano and participants in all of the song number, consisting principally of comedy songs which they put over on an effective manner and for big results.
The Musical Christes were the first act following the usual screen showings of a Sunshine comedy and Fox news. Their playing of classical and popular numbers on the xylophone sent them away to nice applause.
Coleman and Ray have a production ventriloquil offering, the stage setting in [sic] striking, but they employ familiar gags. Just the same, they registered strongly with the crowd here.
