“Music in the Air” Mins.; One. Steiner and Swayne are a boy and a girl, the boy at the piano, the girl with a violin. Both sing besides, which makes it harder, as they appear to be using the songs of the one publisher, disregarding whether those numbers fit their style, voices or act. One of the songs fits neither. It is the double number near the finish. The act may have a chance on the small time. What the billing “Music in the Air” stands for is left to the imagination.
8 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). Telma is said to be a foreigner, appearing for the first time in this country. He is a contortionist, walking on the stage, fully dressed, to a billiard table, where he commences to knock the balls about, meanwhile twisting himself at angles of different degrees over the billiard table. There is a bit of comedy to this, but it is still contortional work, as well as the remainder, including a difficult twist at the finale, not forgetting when Telma made his head touch his hips, with a backward swing of the head, while standing uprightly. That’s some twisting feat, but it’s still contortion, something the big time hardly cares for any more unless it is embellished with more novelty than that afforded by Mr. Telma’s billiard table.
