“The Love Shop,” with Harry and Grace Ellsworth, headlining, displayed finer stage hangings, costumes and more talent than the usual girl act, while Vogt’s comedy and Dorothy Sothern’s good voice found ready favor. The applause honors went to Harry and Grace Ellsworth for exceptionally good dancing. The pretty act with a good chorus was well received.
Lovett’s Concentration, featured among the new arrivals, gave a finished exhibition of thought transference, the madman smoothly answering questions and the band playing selections gathered by Lovett in the audience It held the interest throughout fifth position.
Dave Harris registered the show’s only hit, next to closing with a routine of popular numbers expertly delivered, his playing various instruments and fine personality helping him greatly.
Jimmy Duffy and Mr. Sweeney with the nuttiest kind of comedy makeup abundance of original nonsense and individual nut mannerism, were a big laughing success. The sparsely familiar material could be dropped advantageously.
Sassy Lillian Gonne and Bert Albert, offering “On Their Way to School,” won a hit in the fourth spot through Miss Gonne’s “nut” stuff. The Misses Shaw and Campbell passed fairly well with a song and piano routine, each talking a turn at the music box and alternating in the warbling.
Roy La Pearl and Co., with La Pearl billed as “the world’s greatest aerialist,” prove to be an audience act, with a couple of wops working in a box with La Pearl on the stage. The act got big laughs in the closing position, holding the audience in and winning applause.
The show throughout was well balanced. Raymond Wylie and Co. inn [sic] “The Futuristic Jailbird” offered an original novelty combining talk and songs. The talk, while familiar, managed to score. An excellent blackface comedian is the “and company.” Wylie’s excellent falsetto in double-voice singing scored the biggest of the act.
The Hayatake Bros. in a Japanese acrobatic routine managed to close the show nicely. A full somersault in the Risley work from feet to feet drew big applause. It is unusual trick and worked up with showmanship.
Elizabeth Nelson and the Barry Boys managed to pull down a fair amount of applause for their acrobatic routine, but the straight and blackface work of the boys got but fair returns.
Dooley and Storey were in the next to closing spot of the bill and went over nicely. The unicycle work of Dooley was eliminated from the act here.
