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Three changes of boy’s dress are made, the Englishwoman looking well in each, and in England they are likely quickly recognized. The Eton youth is easily caught over here
The lyrics tell of infantile discoveries which usually causes a friend of the family upon getting an insight to a youngster's worldly knowledge to remark "That kid's pretty 'wise' for his age." "I'd Like to Know When You Can" is another boyish appeal to the audience for information if a lad of 17 isn't fit to start on a study of the world, without any intense desire to secrete the kind of knowledge he is after, and "That's What Little Willie Wants to Know," the second selection Miss Romaine sang, was mild in contrast to the other. It contains a conflicting verse with "I Haven't Told My Mother," the final number, which became
Miss Romaine was evidently Americanized the first day off the boat, for she induced the house to join in for an encore.
The singer has magnetism and perfect enunciation, the latter especially beneficial to the songs. They are probably causing all New York who have seen Miss Romaine to talk already. The New York Theatre is planned for a music hall, and in that or any other Miss Romaine's selections will be appreciated; in some vaudeville houses in sedate neighborhoods the management might exercise the grand privilege of the blue pencil. In New York City Claire Romaine is certain of success, for she is a fetching impersonator of wild youthfulness, with "the goods," even though off-color, to back it up.
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Variety 9:2 (09/14/1907)