Her opening song la “Has Anybody Seen Jonah Brown,” an exclusive comedy idea that fits her nicely, and allows for the Mayhew negro dialect… Taylor deserts the piano for “Laddy Buck of Mine,” a pretty Irish ballad with a lilting melody delivered in pleasing baritone. Miss Mayhew returns for a double with Taylor, “Modern Cinderella,” a sterling lyric depicting the modern version of the old story of the Princess, delivered In modern “hick” with plenty of wise cracks interspersed. Some dialog crossfire on domestic topics, in which Mayhew and Taylor kid each other for laughs, didn’t register strongly, despite the excellence of the material.
The house drop is lowered before which the girl solos “Just a Little Love” in French in a pleasing soprano. In wig and specs as negro preacher with stand and book the comedian delivers a comedy sermon written around “matrimony” and “love.” Some of the material is familiar, but he got results with all of It through the delivery. This portion could be shortened materially. After a change to blue dress and hat she has another song with the male Joining in the last bars for the finish. It’s a corking turn for the three a day houses, but is running too long. A little pruning would help
Woman pianist and male in single and double songs. Both voices are strong and unmusical. A popular song is doubled for the opening with fair harmony with another pop double following in which the male solos’ Ohio” getting results through the lyric. Seated on the piano stool the girl sings “Gee Gee” to orchestra accompaniment in a strident voice with much straining and mugging for comedy. It just managed to land. The man returns to crossfire a couple of released gags, followed by “Vamping Rose” a Hebrew dialect comedy number doubled, without the dialect it made a fairly strong finish to a light No. 2, small time turn.
10 Mins. “Three.”
Man and woman in a fast smooth routine of club juggling, passing and boomerang hats. The latter is worked up for good comedy results in slow passing from head to head, the tempo gradually Increasing until the pair are working like beavers. It made a strong finish for them.
“Enigma” Is offered as an electrical automaton which Is supposedly operated and controlled by electricity. An announcer explains the so-called Invention in “one” preceding the turn… The figure is dressed conventionally with a long frock coat, a masked face and baggy trousers. Under direction it walks, writes name upon an easel, ascends and descends steps, turns crank of a motion picture camera, hits piano keys in haphazard manner and operated one hammer in a duet of hammers played while illustrating the “Anvil Chorus” from “II Trovatore.”
The men enter in checked business suits, remove the jackets and go into a fast routine of familiar ground tumbling. Working fast and hard, however, brought them considerable in the way of applause. An announced feat was a back somersault by one of the men, in which he lands on his head with a loud thump after describing a medium sized parabola. It is a fool hardy stunt and its very foolhardiness earns it the approval it did.
10 Mins
This Is an attraction discovered by Ike Rose in Europe and presented by him this week for its first American appearance in vaudeville, the two sisters with their bodies Joined together but with separate heads, arms and limbs… Both play the violin and xylophone and also sing, but a display of these attributes is not deemed necessary as Rose and Josefa is a freak turn purely… They opened cold last Friday, but the business for that day, Saturday and Sunday boomed.
Open as a trio with introductory song, supplemented by brief bit of stepping. Two of the girls next offer a double introducing some neat toe dancing. Girl mentioned as having a voice does a ballad, followed by another double by the pair that had previously contributed the toe stepping. Vocalist back for a short singing bit and the three close with fast dancing finish.
10 Min
The Japanese Revue is a combination singing, dancing and scenic spectacle, employing six girls and a man, who works a lamp producing electrical effects from the orchestra pit. The act has an attractive opening, which establishes it immediately. Four of the girls’ heads are thrust through as many holes in a large fan, the fan being embroidered on a drop in “one.” The fan is orange and the body of the drop black. The girls comprise a singing quartet, the turn starting with an ensemble number, which is tunefully sung, good lighting accentuating the color values of the scenic background. Full stage scene next, with Jap scenery, possessing a dash of the futuristic. The female quartet have another inning here, likewise the fifth and sixth members of the troupe, respectively a poser and dancer.
The quintet, two men and three women, open in “four,” singing what probably is a native Russian folk song, accompanying themselves on string instruments. The balance of the routine is a cycle of ‘hock”‘ dancing, most of it seen before, with a few new steps, well executed. One of the women is also something of a toe dancer. The two men do a double solo that won considerable and all told the act might fit in neatly on some big-time bills. It’s a corking act of its kind.
