“Olives”

Singing.

"Dream Dream," "That's the Worst of Waiting for a Girl You Have Not Met," "I'll Build a Cottage."

A Marty Brooks turn featuring Sinclair and Dixon, a neat male duo, and mentioning Myrtle Lawlor. Though a girl act, it maintains a sort of plot, has what sounds like several special numbers, but for the most part has taken music from many of the past big musical comedy successes, going as far back as "Florodora." Opening the two boys are giving a farewell party. One's rich father has informed him that his allotted bankroll has been excised and that it's up to him to marry a country lass who has a bit of change in her own right and who is fond of olives, whence comes the act's title. The youths decide to open a country grocery store and exchange names, this working out to the satisfaction of both in the wooing of the girl Olive. One of the male team leads a majority of the numbers rather well, at times having the aid of Miss Lawlor's clear voice. "Dream Dream" is the first number, which takes in the several Broadway shows. The turn goes into one, the comic of the team doing "That's the Worst of Waiting for a Girl You Have Not Met." The choristers are used singly as with most of the songs. Here they are arrayed in very mediocre costumes and A. K. hats. Into full with a supposed country scene there is a second number reminiscent of Broadway shows. "I'll Build a Cottage" has one of the boys and Miss Lawlor, but the dressing is all wrong, Miss Lawlor wearing a very unbecoming frock while the chorus is arrayed in evening dresses which aren't new and are out of order for the number. Both boys work well. Whether Mr. Brooks gave the act a production was not evident on the roof (there may have been some settings for the downstairs showing) but there is no question about the costuming being very bad. The turn is likable, much better than the usual girl act, but, marred by the dressing.

Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)