“The Siren”

Singing.

In "The Siren," an unwieldy tab show with 15 people, Frank Dobson, the featured juvenile comedian, was strongly appreciated. He is smooth, versatile, good to look at and equipped with no slight personality. He stood out prominently, almost violently, supported by exaggerated types and saccharine soubrets. Eulalie Young, in a May Yokes part, rose to something like a showing with her limited opportunities. The others were either too raw or lost in the picture, except when Dobson was on and carried the rapport through in numbers. The songs were well staged and the costumes costly and splendid. Cleveland Bronner, with his fantastic production and eerie dances, all costumed up like the Arabian Nights, is too obviously a "showman" to really get the full artistic results of truly artistic surroundings. But the act is a big one; the spectacles are flamboyantly staged and strikingly carried out, and if on earlier, this act would probably have some away with considerable attention. It is ambitious, and vaudeville should encourage such undertakings.

Variety, 54:7 (04/11/1919)