Harvey and Grace picked up the running. They have a lot of wise cracks, almost everyone of them getting a laugh, the man doing a good straight to the woman’s comedy. She has fairly good voice. Though his dances are brief they stand out as one of the features of the act.
Austin and Allen, man and woman, carrying almost a production but having little talent, followed and worked hard but in vain to keep in stride with the show. The girl looks good and makes four very pretty changes, is a fair dancer with not much of a voice, while the man is small in stature with a weak voice, but the turn is a good flash for the small time.
The heavy task of next to closing fell to Panzer and Sylvia, two men one doing comedy and the other a policeman. The policeman makes his entrance through the audience. After singing several numbers and telling a lot of wise cracks: new and old, they do some very good hand to hand balancing, putting them off to a good hand.
Grace Ayers and Brother, Grace a tall, handsome girl and “brother” a midget, who shows that his height cannot interfere with his merit, go through a fast and snappy roller skating routine. Grace making two beautiful changes in costume and walking away with all honors of the act. It is a well done turn and deserves the better time.
Paul and Walter La Varre in “An Evening at Home” closed and held everyone in until after the closing trick. They appear in evening dress and do accomplished hand to hand feats with much ease. After their closing trick, which consisted of the under man bending backwards over the top of a chair and lifts his partner up hand to hand, they sit down at a table to play cards, the curtain descends slowly, having just played eight weeks at Edelweiss Gardens.
Emile Subor, blackface comedian, came next and exhaled a lot of old gags in a new way, but they seemed to have heard most of the gags before and didn’t get a whimper. However, he closed with a very funny song and went off to a good hand. Another single that seemed peeved and failed to return a single bow.
Mann Trio, three boys with good voices, lots of vim and vigor, sang several popular numbers, their high spots being “Si Si Si Si Senor” and “Chili Bean,” putting these other [sic] with their original way of putting harmony songs over, prove themselves a worthy asset on any small-time bill and can make a good showing on the two-a-day.
Rosa Valyda, with her unusual deep voice, sang several selections, mostly ballads. The act seemed to drag, and Miss Valyda can do a better performance by far; but perhaps this is due to the fact that it was still morning and she might have been sleepy. They seemed to like her more, but she walked off, failing to come back even for a bow.
Mons. Herbert opened the bill in “two” with a table set for dinner, this being his musical paraphernalia in disguise. These instruments have the bell sound and far from being the sweetest music, but Monsieur works hard and gets by with a good hand.
14 Mins.; One. This blackface team is seen as an entirely new vehicle, which, however, follows somewhat in the line of what they have done hitherto in vaudeville. One is short and dapper and the other tall and lanky, with a sort of Bert Williams style of humor, and yet not patterned after him at all. The men come on after the sound of pistol shots back stage. It is explained they have been in a “crap” game, but the dapper little one has made away with all the money, leaving the lanky one to fight it out with the belligerent darkies who remain. A comedy razor is used with laughable effect, and a crap game played in the footlights is another good laugh. The little one has a song and later the tall one ambles on in a woman’s gown, and there follows a travesty on the modern dance. The act closes with a quaint dance, while the men play harmonicas. Both have a rich dialect, redolent of the southern darkey. They offered a lugubrious joke or two about a medical college and a cadaver, which might be eliminated. The act is a fine one for small or middle time, and at the Lincoln Hippodrome it seemed it seemed to hit the audience right in their funnybones. The men depend on little too much on realism, and their own native wit, but when they have worked the act out a little more, it will be. Sure winner.
