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The act is a rehab of Lasky’s Pianophiends.
Four men and four girls perform.
The girls wear only one costume, neither pretty or becoming. The men wear evening dress with black and white black and white facing on the coats.
The pianos are still used.
There is a rag dance introduced tat doesn't get anything like what it should.
The set has not been improved in a make-over.
The general run of selections has been selected to make the act lively, but the "rags" one following the other without anything intervening, becomes tiresome and has the opposite effect.
As the act stands it will make a dandy number for the "small time" but is not sufficient for the big time, if merit is to count, where The Pinaophiends have appeared before.
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Variety 20:3 ( September 24, 1906)