Jack Osterman
Osterman, in fourth position, had first chance, and proved easy to digest. He comes back with practically a brand new act, and the boy won out. He delivered with a bang and tied up the show.
Lyons and Yosco
Lyons and Yosco stepped out and went to work, not losing a soul and using only three numbers made it short and sweet, to give way to “An Artistic Treat,” a posing act of high merit.
Dainty Marie
Dainty Marie, her first reappearance at this house where she met with a serious accident, came back with as much nerve and as good “from” as ever. Her act runs with more speed than when here, due to a different routine.
Sylvia Loyal & Co.
Sylvia Loyal & Co. the company consisting of a man assistant on stage and a flock of pigeons, with a French poodle. Their act is trying to do pantomime that means nothing, and slows the running.
Howard and Helen Savage
Howard and Helen Savage opened. This turn should close if it must do one or the other, because the opening is too pleasant to waste so early. Miss Savage, for a sharpshooter, is a bit of a prima donna, a diva and a beauty. She has a melting approach, a chummy roadster figure and dentist-ad teeth. Howard is a dignified party, very businesslike and matter of fact. He announces his sister when she goes aboard to the rear of the floor to shoot things on the stage, and he bids her au revoir very dryly when he shoots balloons off her brunette crown. It is a very showmanly turn, perhaps too familiar in the Mid-West to gain the full reward of Miss Savage’s development in personality and accomplished. In the East, or perhaps in England, this pair should get raising of eyebrows.
Annette Kellerman
Annette Kellerman, presenting her own review, headlined. She has three cracking good vaudeville acts with her. They amused while she made her changes. Alton and Allen, two boys, danced. Sid Lewis raved on, while Oakes and De Lour did some ballroom stepping, besides some cyclonic eccentric fox-trotting, but though Miss Kellerman surrounds herself with an A1 cast she is still the star. She opened with toe dancing, coming back for a couple of gags, and Annette has improved her speaking voice. Going to a tight wire and from that to a full dress, doing an English Johnny number, and from that to her tank. She also proved a show-stopper and is a star who takes bows with her company.
Castor’s Minstrels
Castor’s Minstrels, an artistically produced singing and dancing act, attracted attention with its costuming from the start and held ‘em all the way with a succession of fast specialties.
Al Shayne
Al Shayne, headlining, has no trouble in clowning his way into a hot next to closing. The two “plants” did well in a comedy way, and Shayne cinched his kit by singing “My Gal Sal,” delivering it straight and scoring with the old ballad.
Lee Mason and Stan Scott
[New Act] songs, 14 mins; one. A man and woman team, with piano and songs, the man playing the instrument. The woman attempts to deceive the audience into the belief she is a female impersonator, or it seems that way from her remarks, but if she succeeded it made no difference.
It’s a small time mixed double with songs. The pianist plays a solo. Among the songs sung by the woman in “Little Cottage.” At the American it was placed to open after intermission, appearing without a silk curtain it carries. That may help some in the No. 4 small time position.
Robert Henry Hodge
A familiar turn in the second part were Robert Henry Hodge and Co. in “Bill Blithers Lawyer.” The act played the 5th Avenue last week and is now started over the Loew time. It’s a laugh maker, with Mr. Hodge’s rural attorney the central figure together with his work, and will do much better in a theatre proper than it did on the roof, though it passed there.