Ciccolini

Singing.

"Mother Machree."

The applause hit of the bill was Ciccolini, if you believed Ciccolini, for this single continued taking encores unearned until he wound up with "Mother Machree" when he got a real one. ... Ciccolini (pronounded Chick-o-lena) started off with an accompanist, then sang with the orchestra, returned to the accompanist, held his right hand often on his pleated white shirt, point to his throat, took an exit and stole an encore, placed his hand on his shirt again, then once more at his throat, and then disappeared. This is his second week at the Palace. Never mind in a case like this what Melba said - if you can put Chick over as a headline, it's good work, and it's just as well to make him the headline - that's about the best way to make them believe it in a case of this sort. But pity goes out to those tenors who try and are not headliners.

Variety, 40:7 (10/15/1915)