The Moore and Megley production, starring Corinne Tilton in “A Chameleon Revue,” closed intermission excellently. The billing still mentions the offering as a cycle in five verses, but since the rhyme is no longer programmed the billing line is a bit ambiguous. The producers show care in their management of the act. The costumes are fresh in appearance and little details are well taken care of with the whole turn spelling neatness. Miss Tilton’s work again stood out clearly and her souse stood up as the bets bit of its kind in months. The revue moved at right tempo and drew hearty applause at the curtain.
Louise Gunning, the light opera prima donna, next offered five selections. She had her leader to thank for receiving an encore call. The Palace audience was passing her up after the operatic selection and were ready to let her pass on when the leader pulled up the tempo of the men in the pit and secured enough for the closing selection. It was “Mighty Lak a Rose,” and it is by far the best suited to her voice of anything in the repertoire offered.
A.C. Astor, the ventriloquist, fared much better at the hands of the Palace audience than he did last week at the Riverside. There were two reasons: The first is that Astor seems to have speeded his act a little over the preceding week and the other that he could be heard in the Palace, whereas a great deal of his material was lost in the big uptown house.
The hit of the performance came with the advent of Eddie Leonard just before the interval. Leonard held stage for almost half an hour, did two encore number, made a little speech, and still the audience remained seated and asked for more. Finally “Roly Boly Eyes,” as a third encore, let the minstrel favorite get away. That dancing boy Stewart and Leonard has in his act and the showmanship which the star displays in presenting him is going to make vaudeville audiences sit up and take notice. The young man is a phenom as a stepper, and the routines that he showed won the house for him.
The entire show was fairly good entertainment. The Three Bobs, in the opening spot, were really one of the big outstanding hits of the show. The trio are providing one of the real novelties in opening acts with their trained bull terrier and crow. The bird and dog make the act a sure thing from an applause standpoint, and the club swinging that the boys exhibit earned heavy applause at the conclusion of the offering. The turn really stopped the show.
Charles Morati and Grace Harris waste their efforts trying for laughs on old gags. She makes a stunning appearance and he is a good tenor. Their singing carries them over.
A school act having seven people billed as “The District School,” depending on hoke for their big laughs, but otherwise containing good entertainment, went over exceptionally big. They conclude with jazz orchestra playing following some good singing and dancing specialties.
The vaudeville is opened by Sinclair and Gray, a couple of attractive girls on bicycles in full stage, who precede their bicycle stunts with a sing in “one.” Though possessing pleasing voices, it is the work on the bicycles that counts for a nice hand.
The Three Weber Girls are attractive and received a nice hand for acrobatics neatly offered in opening position following a rather indifferent impression made with a song beginning. Here their gowns were below the class of the act. “Mardi Gras,” last week’s headliner held over, was only moderately received.
Tony Hunting and Corinne Frances in “The Flower Shop” wound up to a good hand on his smart dancing and her banjo accompaniment. Their talk in the shop skit was moderately sprinkled with laughs.
