NING TOY

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12 Mins. One (Special Drop). Ning Toy is a youth. He may be Chinese but he stands a better chance of being Italian. Ning opened with “Down in Chinatown” sung in a wee voice that failed to draw returns. He played a steel-string guitar in Hawaiian style and followed that with “So long, Oolong,” kneeling for the song. The enunciation was minus dialect, the first tip-off Ning was not all he seemed. That less excused his “easy of pace came with the final number. Ning making a rhymed announcement of J. K. Emmett’s favorite “Sleep, Baby, Sleep.” He yodeled the chorus, a surprise over his preceding vocal exhibition. This number was the best. Ning was out with more Chink talk, removed the wig, which didn’t fool any one, and explained the chatter meant he was a boy in Chinese.

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