Frank Kellam and Virginia O’Dare, next to closing, secured a hit. Kellam’s nut stuff elicited big laughs throughout, and Miss O’Dare, alluring in short costumes, proved an excellent straight, displaying a fiend voice in the song numbers.
The Barr Twins, topping, made a fine impression with their excellent unison impression with their excellent union dancing attractively offered with pretty costume changes. The mirror dance, with the duplicating steps, proved most attractive and the best applause getter, while the captivating girls displayed pleasing voices, and Rube Beckwith at the piano filler the waits nicely.
Fred Lewis, a fast coming singer, is a chap that will bear watching, Lewis is doing a different act than when last seen around here dressing it in a comedy manner. He has some smart talk and gets laughs through his entire 14 minutes. Here’s another act that could get away on the two-a-day.
Bobby Adams and Jewell Barnett, a blonde and a red-head came on for the first hit of the evening. Miss Barnett, a good looking auburn haired beauty, officiates at the piano, while Miss Adams, a patootie of the blonde type sings songs with a little different twist. Both girls do a single numbers and harmonize on their ballads. For an encore the girls did a number called “Uhu” that proved a riot. Here’s an act that is ready for the big time for an early position having youth, looks and talent.
The show was opened by Hall, Levan and Miller, a three-man tumbling act with one of them, apparently Levan doing black-face comedy. They mix straight tumbling with a lot of comedy falls and neck spins.
The heavy task of next to closing fell to Panzer and Sylvia, two men one doing comedy and the other a policeman. The policeman makes his entrance through the audience. After singing several numbers and telling a lot of wise cracks: new and old, they do some very good hand to hand balancing, putting them off to a good hand.
Grace Ayers and Brother, Grace a tall, handsome girl and “brother” a midget, who shows that his height cannot interfere with his merit, go through a fast and snappy roller skating routine. Grace making two beautiful changes in costume and walking away with all honors of the act. It is a well done turn and deserves the better time.
Harry Kahne, “The Master Mind,” followed. Kahne works in “two” in front of a pretty special cloth drop, with the assistance of three blackboards. He asks the audience to suggest names, etc., which he writes backward, upside down, and several other ways, with touches of comedy intermixed, all of this done with a high polish of showmanship. For his closing trick he writes the headlines of a newspaper, starting with the last letter, finishing with the first: divides an eight figure number if four parts so that it will add up: the audience calling out name of any State in United States, he giving population of the capital and what it is noted for, doing all five stunts simultaneously. Kahne is a master showman and has an act of true merit.
“Apartment House Frolics,” two men and two women one of the funniest skits seen on the small time in many months, closed the bill. With the right kind of performer the act couldn’t miss on the two-a-day.
Zelaya, the South American piano player, was next-to-closing, and held it down with ease. He opens with a classical selection, after which he gives a lecture in psychology, and when he jazzes the popular numbers he just couldn’t miss.
