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Singing and piano playing.
King and Harvey have the makings of a fine act for the time. They need a little atmosphere. One of the men is at the piano. while the other one sings. They open with an inconsequential Irish number which' should be taken. out at once; it's valueless. Then the vocal member of the team sings Mandalay. He does it beautifully, in a robust, clear, powerful voice, and intelligently gets the mannerisms and intonations that Kipling intended should go into the poem. But he sings it in a business suit, and the square piano is cheaply fumed. If he wore evening dress, and his accompanist wore evening dress, and if the piano were a grand piano, it would be a grand number. The other member of the team gets a lot of laughing applause with a sissy number, and they finish nicely with a nut number;' The act would be much improved if the men went to the expense of a little costuming, and if the singing member got some more real numbers like "Mandalay."
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Variety, 54:9 (04/25/1919)