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Singing.
Selma Sells may be a little sensitive perhaps because she is short of stature but the gods in cutting off her youthful inches in maturity more than made up for that be endowing her with an unsophisticated mannerism, a beautiful head of hair and a voice that is bound to cause envy among other stage songbirds long before Miss Sells has been around the Loew Circuit. Miss Sells is a veritable bundle of vocal vibration, her songs not only being sung in high register and in a voice that endures but her enunciation makes it possible to decipher what the lyrics have in common with the accompanying music. Miss Sells' present routine is not the strongest she could arrange perhaps but it suffices to being out the voice to good advantage. She has no doubt studied voice culture, attested by the delivery and style in using numbers away from the stereotyped topical layout. Miss Sells will do even better than she did Monday night at the American when she sings the songs best suited for the best results.
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Variety, 53:13 (02/21/1919)