Nellie V. Nichols

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This without the next-to-closing turn in the running and Nellie V. Nichols, tried and sterling performer, running below her grade. Miss Nichols followed two singing acts, but since there were six in a row almost every one did. Miss Nichols, however, followed several hundred, using material which in the main was trite and frazzled with wear. At this day, in Chicago, a routine containing “Portuguese,” Moving Picture Ball,” “Wait Till You See,” and “Rose of Washington Square,” is handing out a lot of vets. In addition she did a special called “Don’t Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice” and a brief one incorporating the old gag about the Sunday school teacher talking about her twenty-one children and the stranger asking what part of Ireland her husband came from. She also did a Wop, in which Tony rhymed with macaroni and was from San Antonio. Miss Nichols holds an honored and established position in vaudeville; like an ambassador to a foreign capital, she should “support the position as befits.” She needs true, honest character songs and is big enough to have her own, with a popular one here and there, perhaps. If she does not want exclusive ones she might keep refreshing the ones she does want. She did not “go” as an artist of her caliber should.

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