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George and Ray Perry, banjoists, opening after intermission, pleased with a series of standard and pop selections. The medleys were well chosen. Bringing out some effective close harmony as well as firstrate rag fingering. The team gain a lot through a refined stage presence and neat dressing. They play real banjos, not phoney banjorines or freak mandolins with calf skin heads, and handle the instruments with the ability that comes with long practice. Inasmuch as big-time vaudeville seems to be going back to first principles with one string fiddles, trick harmonica players, old-fashioned tramp comics, etc. there seems to be no sound reason, except the apparent prejudice of booking managers, against the African harp, why the Perrys style of act shouldn’t get in on the revival thing. Double banjo turns are about as abundant as tips in the Automat on the better bills today and because of not having been overdone for the last eight or ten years would probably shape up as a novelty to the present generation of big-time patrons. The Perrys look like an excellent bet for No. 2 in the better houses.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 6 August 1920