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10 Mins.; One. It could be asked – Why blame it upon Atlantic City? – but from information which should be correct, Smiling Bunny Gray did play in Atlantic City – once, perhaps longer. Maybe she played in vaudeville. The Hammerstein program says she was found on the Boardwalk. That’s rough talk for a program to send over anent a featured attraction in Broadway’s big time vaudeville. And the program calls the young woman without a voice “Similing Bunny Gray.” Bunny didn’t live up to her billing Monday evening. She didn’t smile, but used up four songs, one a ballad, walked carelessly around the stage, some times stepped over the chain almost into the footlights, then stepped back again, not smiling even then, and the most noticeable indications were that bunny wanted to do “nut stuff,” but didn’t know how to go about it. Maybe she wasn’t familiar enough with her surroundings. But if Bunny is drawing a regular vaudeville salary for this week’s work, she can smile at that, although she isn’t apt to remain long in vaudeville. It’s probably back to the cabaret for Bunny, but Bunny won’t care if her listleness in working gives a true line on her hopes and ambitions. “She Sings Songs in Her Own Unique Way,” adds the program.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.6, October 10, 1914