Holden and Navarre, a fresh young pair, outclassed the rest of the bill in material, appearance, personality and standards. Miss Navarre is a dainty kiddie and Navarre is a Truex-like young comic, gentlemanly and effective. They were set in a peachy boudoir, where he came home with a feather-edge bun the morning after the wedding, having been kidnapped by his cronies. The laughs got big and explosive after the introductory talk and popped along like a six-cylinder.
Hill and Rose sand through a run of home-made material in tailor-made clothes. The woman showed some wardrobe, too rich and genuine for the rest of the turn. He came back with a dress suit and Wynn hat. Finished with meaningless medley and a blue gag for one and a half bows.
Charles and Cecil McNaughton – a gray-haired man with a quavery but powerful ballad voice and a buttery li’l cutie who can’t do much, but who looks good enough to take home – did nobly and finished well with surefire song combine.
Adeline Frank opened. No review of her is fair from a man who last week saw Ruth Budd on the Ziegfeld roof, for Miss Frank essays trapeze and iron-jaw work. She is chunky and deliberate. Her routine went haltingly until her finish, when she spun head down on a little rope triangle pivoted from the bottom trap. She did about 4 minutes in all, and closed to good response.
The Bimbos, in a novelty acrobatic act, using the tables and barrel, kept the audience in an uproar, when one of the Bimbos did the fall. He is ably assisted by a pretty miss, who works very hard, doing the heavy work of the act.
The headliner of the bill was Edna May Foster, who is the daughter of Ed Foster, who also appears in the act, as well as Mrs. Foster. Although not billed they put over a hit. Edna May has a sweet voice and dressed in a beautiful costume was well liked – but after Foster makes his appearance known in the orchestra pit as the drummer the act began to pick up – and the scream of performance is Mamma Foster making her entrance down the aisle of the theatre, grabbing her husband her husband by the ear, and “yanking” him from the theatre. The act was the hit of the performance.
Bertram May and Co. in a very clever skit, worked hard to put over something that the patrons in the rear row failed to get the drift of. The girl playing the part of the writer was hard to understand and she held the plot in her hands it was impossible for any one to know what or why she was paying $500 to an actor to beat up his wife.
The show opened following a good picture with Swain’s Cats and Rats, a very good opening act. The novelty of the act is the cats imitating the rats and their regular routine and it went over big. The two cats who put on a three-round boxing act almost stopped the show.
“Three of a Kind,” three boys in evening clothes, with good voices, easy clothes, and good voices, easy mannerisms and a well chosen cycle of songs, left a very good impression. The boys put over comedy numbers in hiffhang style, digging up laughs as freely as they did applause.
Miss Gibson, coming very early on the bill found the house a bit chilly to start with, but she soon had them. Her blues song numbers seemed to find the crowd right where they lived and kept them busy asking for more. Miss Gibson has an exceptionally pleasing personality, a natural “coon shouting” voice, and the ability to use it to very good advantage.
