Nothing spectacular in the first half, with Eddie Foy and the Foylets tacked on to close before intermission. Bryan remains with the family, not overdoing to any extent, and leaving the main portion of the burden to fall on Charlie’s shoulders, who is still quite capable of taking care of it. Charlie fulfills the promise he gave of being adept on his feet when tearing up and down the halls of De La Salle some years ago. The Foy act pleased mightily and could have done a few more minutes.
13 min. Straight singing turn by two men in evening dress. One of the two sings soprano. Good voices with high class selections and were well received.
20 min. f.s.. Spl. This is a good singing aggregation and their act is well staged. Held the audience pretty well.
Bernard and Ferris copped the applause honors. Bernard, dressed as a chef and has a healthy base voice, and Ferris possesses a natural choir boy soprano voice, getting an ovation on each number. For an encore they sang the Hebrew classic, “Ell Ell” Stopping the show completely.
Brown and Jackson sailed their hokum across for a clean sweep, finishing the applause hit of the bill. They sing two ballads for good results and close with a song, the man accompanying her playing a saxophone.
Bert Fitzgibbons, assisted by his brother Lew, daffydilled them, poked fun and then played a xylophone and a piano for a good measure. Being encored, he produced a plugger in a box, who put over a ballad in a nice voice, but does not mean or add value to the act, being only a plugger.
Lillian Shaw was hurt by having Miss Ford precede her, and though a tremendous favorite in this town, did not deliver with her usual knockout. She has replaced “I Love Him” with “Palesteena.” There was no question but that Miss Shaw would do much better on her evening show.
Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, assisted by Sam Miller and Gene Cass, followed, and suffered accordingly. Miss Seeley has always had a certain niche in the hearts of the vaudeville goers as a syncopated songstress. She was an excellent coon shouter, but why try to get away from this? She has built herself a production and she has Benny Fields, but Blossom of old, isn’t. And if it were not for Fields working up her numbers and his own specialty, it would be no act at all.
[New Act] Piano, Violin and Songs. 15 mins.; one. Man and woman in alikable routine of singing and violin selections by the woman, and piano playing by the man. The woman makes two costumes changes, both neat. The man wears Tuxedo.
The turn pleased opening the show at Keeney’s first half. Both have youth and ability that will stand development in their favor. Right now they can nicely in the early section of the better pop house shows.
The nearest approach to the biggest score – and even that might have been improved on – was in the appearance of Rose and Lee Belle, a sister act, who disported four songs with highly agreeable harmony, opening the second half after intermission. The blonde, despite an overdose of make-up, showed personality and was able to put over a song with the added suggestion of a shimmy – but not overdone – which really woke up the audience into bigger applause than had been accorded any other turn. The one at the piano is as much of a factor in the turn’s success as her teammate, using a soft voice and is able to keep the orchestra in time with some fair piano playing.
