Rose Miller

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9 Mins.; One. Funny, how this double-voiced thing is springing up among singles in vaudeville. It’s old stuff outside of that. Any single speaking about a notice will use two voices, one when it’s good and another when it’s bad. Rosie Miller hasn’t nearly the singing range that some of the others have talking. One can almost imagine Rosie going into a music publisher, asking what good rags he has hanging around loose and then inquiring the best way they are getting them over nowadays. The publisher Rose spoke to must have told her the double-voice thing was au fait at present. One thing about Rosie is that she enunciates clearly. You can’t miss a word. Every song is the same, and Rosie sang four in nine minutes at the Fifth Avenue Tuesday night. This matter of time is becoming a serious item. Up to Rosie’s appearance the record was 9 mins.  38 secs., held by a single at the Jefferson but maybe Rosie beat her through not getting so much applause. If the orchestra can stand it, singles may yet do five songs in six minutes and doubles go through an act in less than ten. That will be regular motion vaudeville, and would let the house give five or six shows a night, with acrobats getting through their turn under five minutes. But the songs that Rosie Sang! They were “Cotton Blossom Time,” “Carolina,” “Down Below” and “At the Ball.” Got Rosie the most noise, so that is giving Mose Gumble a neat little best of Max Winslow, but it’s 50-1 that either one of those “pluggers” tipped Rosie off to the double-voice thing. It wasn’t announced on the stage, nor the program, nor did Rosie make it very evident. It’s in here through inside info, and it’s just as well, for if Rosie is going right on through vaudeville believing she has a double, it can remain a secret between us. And if she is going to sing rags or any other kind of numbers, Rosie might better do them in character.

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