Mae McRae

Singing.

"Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield" and "When I Dream of Annie Laurie."

Miss McRae is a single who should confine himself entirely to the raggy-draggy stuff, and also to one costume. She is a rather big girl with a big voice of the timber suited to the rag melodies. Opening with "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield," she made an impression. Her second number is badly chosen. It is a ballad, entitled "When I Dream of Annie Laurie," and to sing it Miss McRae had to make a complete change of costume and also of voice, which disclosed the fact that ballads are entirely out of her range. Closing with a number suited to her, she came back to her natural voice and scored. What she really should do is to put the first costume that she wears away until next fall, do all of her numbers without a change in the second gown, get two new songs, one to replace the ballad, and another tag so as to be prepared for an encore and she will make a good small time single which in time may develop.

Variety, 38:13 (05/28/1915)