Patricola

Singing and violin playing.

Patricola is reappearing around New York as a single turn, singing with the house orchestra. Patricola formerly had a band of musicians, but she needs no musical assistance, since she plays (and plays well) the violin. Patricola appears to have just stepped into the Fifth Avenue to see how the audience liked her, also the managers and agents who might be there. She did her act without any "embellishment, singing four numbers and doing two more on the violin. From her violin playing, after the second song, Patricola went through nicely, and after her Irish number of "Pat Casey" she had to do an encore - a "Cleopatra" song. Her first number was "On the Levee, followed by a new one about a Johnny in town. Miss Patricola is much more slender than when last in New York. She alleges to have lost 40 pounds "all over," and she looks it. Patricola has a likable personality, and when that is there, with ability as a song deliverer behind it, it only seems the turn is going to be just as big as the singer makes it, and more particularly in this case, where Patricola can also play a violin in any style. She is also possessed of four vaudeville surefire things - the audience, personality, violin playing and her Irish song. If Patricola doesn't make the big time for as long as she wants to with those and what may be made out of them, together with other material available, then blame Patricola; and if the girl is going to worry more about keeping down her weight than she is about the show business that is also her own fault.

Variety, 53:13 (02/21/1919)