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Ed Janis and his revue, with the pleasant Southern Sisters, easily the class and talent of the turn, ran niftly. The jazz-shimmy finish was commonplace. The sisters, in two dances and a song, went nobly. Janis, who has a boyish personality and can dance a few in the long-legged fashion, was mildly pleasing. Carmen Rooker, a young woman with fresh-from-the dancing-school manners and technique danced toe and Oriental. A pianist (Irving Buckley), smiled broadly all through, as though to say “I’m not just a pianist – I’m a principal.” And so he was. He did a song written for principals, but not for him. Whoever picked the tunes for the act did it well, a prettier set of melodies being seldom collected in one turn.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 9 July 1920