Adelaide Bell and company caught a thoroughly quieted down audience third, pleasing with a series of acrobatic and legmania dances. During the time allotted Miss Bell for costume changes her male accompanist pounded out piano selection, none above ordinary, but filling in satisfactorily. Miss Bell’s high score was made with a couple of contortion dances, one of which brought forth some corking ankle twisting and kicks.
Frank Parish and Steven Peru again appeared in the No. 3 spot and they drew capital reward. This pair is always trying and always seems to have new stunts, with their clever jumping tricks always worth while. A dance with canes might have been one of the added numbers, for Parish missed a line or two in the lyric introducing it. They seem to be doing more with concertinas, too, and the balancing stunt brought them out for encore acrobatics, still playing the instruments.
Jerome and Newell opened the show with a little singing, dancing and instrumental work leading to their acrobatics. The latter portion of the act brought applause, but the opening efforts proved inconsequential.
Jennier Brothers opened with a neat trapeze routine, featuring simultaneous work in mid-air performed with skill, speed and precision that evinced spontaneous approval from the audience.
The Yip Yap Hankers, now flashing a real (Or the best female camouflage the war developed) hit as they had never hit before. Their antics and acrobatics, their youthful camp pranks, seemed to get into the spirit of the audience. This is no wartime act – it can play a hundred years.
The Linkos opened the vaudeville, which preceded the revue. The wire in which they feature some good head work won them merited applause.
[New Act] Acrobatics, 5 mins.; full stage. Two young men who can improve their appearance by shelving the rigs of green satin, which illy fitted. They closed the show without tights which, however, should cause no criticism in the war weather. Their routine is hand to hand and head balancing equilibristics. It looked somewhat slow Monday night giving the impression that speeding was needed more or should be added. Yet they appeared to hold the house.
The Billy La Mont Trip, a fast wire act, started things off. The act harbors a youngster who will be heard from. She is the nearest thing to Bird Millman seen yet. The flash is run by a girl on a moving wire which is turned on a drum by the male.
Enos Frazere, the classiest kind of an individual for an aerialist, introduces himself smartly and goes through a spectacular routine of trapeze stunts, chattering here and there in a gentlemanly fashion. He has a special set to back up his work. The fact that a single trapezist is selected to close the first part of the Palace is in itself a sufficient recommendation for the act.
Leon and Mitza, acrobatic team, opened the show with very interesting hand balancing stunts that cannot be equaled by many in their respective line. The female member is virtually an assistant while he features the turn by jumping half a dozen uprights by the balance of one arm, which brought him solid applause.
