Type: Dancing

Bert Kalmar and Jessie Brown

18 minutes f.s. special draperies with 5 minute close in one. One of the daintiest and prettiest dancing acts we play. Went very well this afternoon, and were nothing short of a great big hit to-night.

Six American Dancers

Three men and three women. 12 minutes in One. Own plush curtain. The same stylish, classy, finished act that was here three seasons ago. A big hit.

The Roberty Trio

Sensational dancers, toe dancers, acrobatic, etc. Some of the work done by these people is most remarkable. All of it is especially good, still for some reason or another it doesn’t seem that these acts go very strongly with the audiences. They didn’t get nearly as much applause as it seemed to me they deserved and I find that condition prevails almost everywhere with acts of this nature. 10 min. F.S.

Three Brownies

Three boys still in their teens in eccentric dancing and novelty roller skating. 14 minutes, opening 4 minutes in One, then to full stage. They do some good dancing, the burglar dance being noteworthy, also some very clever dancing on rollers, and some good comedy. Went good.

Princess Rajah

14 minutes f.s. special set. The best of the dancers of this sort, with a beautiful stage setting. She is doing a better act than she ever did, and going big.

Frisco and Co. (5).

Dancing. 18 Mins.; Full Stage. Frisco in his newest act has four dancing girls, besides a female dancing partner—and his old stuff—which means his old jazz dancing. That still seems to go the best, for Frisco has a name around New York, though, everyone has taken about all his old stuff for themselves. A “tough” dance he does gets some laughs, and is a good piece of work of its kind, also his dancing imitations or “demonstrations,” as Frisco terms them. He can dance, but doesn’t do much of it.

Russo, Teis and Russo.

The trio’s forte is buck and wing stepping. A man and two women comprise the terpsichorean personae. They perform their clogs on a special wooden mat, mixing up their stuff with the conventional waltz clog, and hornpipe and Irish jigs. The routine runs, far too long and tires the audience by reason of the dragginess in the turn due to the similarity in all the offerings.

McGee and Anita.

I5 Mins. Full Stage (Special). Man and girl in routine of character dances. Act starts with song off stage by the man. Girl offers highland fling next, done in typical Scotch kilted costume. Sailor’s Hornpipe by the man follows, white sailor garb being worn. Skipping rope dance by the girl, with a double whirlwind dance for a finish with both in Chinese costume. Both are very good dancers. The opening song by the man should be dropped. The turn will make a pleasing opening or No. 2 act for the small time bills.

“Look” (7).

6 Mini.; Full Stage. Mme Rialta presents this novelty. It was out some months ago as “Recredis” but since then has been considerably switched about and is now a smoothly working sight turn.’ A wide angle lens is employed to project colored pictures upon a white screen hung as a back curtain, this providing by sterepticon a series of changes in settings. There are six girls for the dances which call for several costume changes. Juva Marconi is featured and though the stage was in semi-darkness, to permit the projected pictures to stand out, Miss Marconi impressed as an exceptional dancer. She is lithe and in the matter of high kicking has few peers. The winter scenes and the dances looked the prettiest. At the finish curtains are drawn in about two for some striking effects of the futuristic kind.