“Havana Bound,” a tab employing old script, has neat musical numbers. A good comic struggling for laughs with poor material, though cleverly delivered, scores individually on excellent eccentric dancing. The straight man, impossible, has a good-looking ingénue and chorus four in rube characters displayed only fair voices with quartet singing. Mildly received.
“A Japanese Romance” closed the bill, but proved rather weak. There are pretty costumes and settings, but otherwise it is an ancient operetta, and the principals are not all that they should.
San Yee Troupe, consisting of three members of the Caucasian race, who do real tricks. They juggle and do magic, and the final feature is two members who are hung up by their ques and swung in mid-air. This act woke up the sleeping patrons and they are ready for the next show.
Doyle and Elaine two very pretty misses, made up as “high yeller” with very good voices and clever dancing feet, did exceptionally well. They worked hard and left a very good impression with their little act in “two.” Both girls work unconcerned and are up in southern dialect.
With the audience still yawning the Hippodrome opened its show to a handful of patrons at 11 am with Arthur and Peggy in a wire-walking act in which one of the members does a back somersault wearing heavy riding boots, this being the only feature that awoke the sleepy audience. The female member sang a scotch song – but Lucy Bruch, a tiny miss with bobbed hair and a violin, dressed in a gypsy costume took home some of the honors. She received the attention of the audience and made them like it. Her position on the bill is the only thing that held her back from being a feature attraction.
Hite, Reflow and Loehr are a mixed couple offering a series of dances with a piano accompanists. The costuming is pretty, and the setting attractive. The pianist displays cleverness and versatility in song numbers and acrobatic dancing, while the team make their changes. The act is generally above the small time average.
Friend and Downing went over big with their sure fire offering. They are a good comic and an excellent straight. Their talk is cleverly delivered, and their parody singing stopped the show completely.
The Worth Wayten Four proved a lively male quartet with good comedy and harmony. The imitations of musical instruments, closing with a calliope, placed them as a hit.
Tom Nawn and company in the comedy sketch entitled “Pat and the Genii” scored laughs from beginning to end.
Garry Owen scored big with comedy numbers and some talk. There are some old gags in the act, but the youngster lands strong on the kidding of his piano accompanist, Fred Thompson.
