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Xylophone and brass instruments.
Two young fellows, Frank and Mel Britten, play xylophones and brasses. They make it mostly popular, but don't do over well until near closing, when they play the brasses, using mutes.
This with the type of popular melody employed helps them across. It might also suggest that they waited too long before doing that, since the turn seemed to drag previously. Their turn
needs reframing, if they insist upon appearing as a vaudeville act. Of rather pleasant appearance and apparently in their 20s, it would seem that there would be a larger and more remunerative field for them elsewhere, than in small time over here for which they are now only suited. These two boys might arrange a jazz combination for abroad, securing a good and long contract for over there now, through almost any foreign agent in New York. It might land them eventually to far better result than vaudeville holds out for them over here. Just now over there they might mean something over here now or in the future as at present hooked up, they mean nothing.
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Variety, 54:8 (04/18/1919)