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Singing and piano accompaniment.
"Until We Meet Again" and "Kisses."
Lillian Lane is a brunette who mentions a past operatic career when announcing a song from 'Rigoletto." She is a straight singer with an accompanist at the piano. He is Marcelle Gautier (formerly Hans Hanke). Miss Lane sings four numbers, opening with a Spanish song in a cloak that harmonizes with the setting. Throwing off the wrap, displaying a pretty gown beneath, Miss Lane sings "Until We Meet Again," and after a piano moment by Gautier for her change she returns for the operatic bit, singing "Kisses" to close. Of good voice and some personality. Miss Lane seems likely to do as a straight single, one of those that looks certain for the Orpheum Circuit, for instance; but at the Fifth Avenue Miss Lane overworked. She was just a bit too much in her singing, trying to throw it over instead of getting it over; mixing up a steady smile, and also doing a vocal guttural obligato to the piano for a refrain that will not strike the music lovers who attend vaudeville as a miraculous voice exhibit.
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Variety, 53:8 (01/17/1919)