The Lormer Girls, with Cliff Adams at the piano, closed the show. These girls have an act considerably above the usual small time sister team. It is exceptionally well dressed and equally as well staged. The girls, one a blonde and the other a brunette, look great, are good singers and dance as well as most of them. Mr. Adams plays two piano solos for changes, the last one of which should be made shorter; it takes up more time then the girls require for a change and becomes a bit of a strain on the interest. The act was very well liked.
O.K. Legel, a comedy juggler with a drayload of props, was next and waded through his act in almost total silence. There were a few scattered laughs on the comedy props and an occasional hand on juggling trick, but the act is too completely jumbled and meaningless to get anywhere in particular.
Florence Rayfield drew the No. 2 spot and accredited herself nobly. Miss Rayfield is very young and dainty, has a little voice, but handles it powerfully and sells her material in a sure-fire manner.
Mills and Smith, in rube character, have a very poor talking routine, but finished strong with a yodeling specialty.
“Fad and Frolics” is a neatly presented tabloid, having pretty settings and costumes. There is a corking juvenile and a clever girl and quintet of choristers, the act being minus the usual comic. It really proved a straight singing turn and was liked as such. Sam and Goldie Harris in a trolley car talking skit pleased, scoring a number of laughs.
Juliette Dika, a plump and smiling French girl, did very well with popular numbers, French and English. She got most on her closing song. “A Soldier’s Dream,” a French number also used by Mlle Nita Jo. “Little Jam,” a wrestling bear, closed the performance.
Miss Neuman is equipped with a powerful voice, a smiling personality and the ability to sing blues with a punch. But Miss Neuman experienced the usual difficulty in this house of getting a helpful response from the audience for her efforts. She worked very much as though she was sorry it was necessary to disturb them, and for the greater part of her act it looked as though the audience accepted her in the same spirit. However, after her blues song things were different; she had them then, had them good and plenty, but by that time she wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about her conquest.
“The Great” Howard next did his ventriloquial act staged in a Red Cross but in the battle some of the sometime deceased war. He used a couple of soldier dummies and got laughs on the cross-free talk between them, but should bring his songs up to date.
The Royal Italian Sextette, two girls and four men, went over well, singing bits of operatic selection and a couple of popular ballads.
Redman and Wells name finally appeared. Miss Wells proved to be very good to look at and, although she cannot sing much, that didn’t matter for nobody seemed to expect it of her.
