Laddie Cliff

"A limber-legged, rubber-backed, supple and grinning English lad, just turned 17, stood before the Orpheum audience yesterday afternoon and bowed again and again, as he vainly tried to quell the tumult his work had started."

"It isn't so much what Laddie Cliff does, but the way he does it that raises storms of approval. He comes on and sings a few songs, very new and very English, but he sings them in such a refreshingly droll way -- a fashion all his own. Then he dances, too; eccentric dancing is nothing especially abnormal, and many have done it [...] but not as Cliff does." "Certainly no funnier turn, in the way of pure humor, has been seen in vaudeville within recent recollection."

New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Robinson Lock