14 Mins One.
Man and pretty girl coupled. He handles the piano, saxophone and clarinet in accompanying. The girl is a good characterist and looks fine in two flashly costumes. The opening finds her soloing about her partner’s lateness and susceptibility for the fair sex. He enters and they go into a double, “I’ll Tell the World.” He answers with “wise cracks,” building it up into a good number. “He’s So Good To Me” is her next and it’s excess. Following a piano solo she appears in a classy short-skirted costume and sings some jazzy numbers while he accompanies on the clarinet. It’s big time, with a little change of 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
“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.”
11 Mins.
Medium height, slender, dark girl walks across stage with tall slender youth following her. She halts dead centre to upbraid him and they get acquainted, which introduces opening song where the difference in sizes is commented upon lyrically. This is followed by a good eccentric dance, both being nimble kickers, the male getting considerable altitude with his long legs. Some crossfire with the man affecting a semi-nut follows. His comedy efforts don’t land through weakness of material. He does a good routine of eccentric steps while she changes to pretty black short skirted dress for her song, “Oh Boy,” delivered in vivacious style. A double eccentric acrobatic dance concludes. They are excellent dancers and should stick to their knitting. As little as possible on the comedy efforts will improve the turn, which should reach big time standards with intelligent pruning.
The opening is novel with the boy briefly introducing his partner in a song solo. She appears attired in knee length novelty costume, representing a hat box. A few fast rotations and the girl steps out of the “hat box” effect being attired in lingerie. The youth drapes a short dress around her and they step into a fast graceful acrobatic waltz. He solos next, showing remarkable kicking with Jumping “hitch” kicks, followed by her solo toe dance in ballet costume.
10 Mins.
These three girls or a similar combination played around as three Andersons. A cyclorama envelopes the stage representing a boudoir or dressing room with a bureau, pier glass, special lamps, etc. For the first number two of the girls pop out of a chest opened by one. An undecipherable song is followed by a ballet dance. A change is made in view, the girls stripping down to one-piece sailor pants with orange colored blouses and caps for a hornpipe. Another “view” change and two of the girls do a double dance with whirls and kicks.
Red-nosed eccentric corned inn and straight in a corking routine of horizontal bar stunts. Straight features a double bade somersault from bar to landing (—-) with comics’ best a jump from bar to bar on top. The letter’s efforts at pantomime comedy don’t help the act an iota.
16 Mins.; Full Stage.
This turn has been playing around since the termination of the war and includes four uniformed characters, Scotch, Canadian, English and Irish. It is mainly a singing combination, but comedy is derived through the excellent characterization pf the “cockney.” A special set representing a trench ‘scene with the four men in regulation active service regalia, the, dialogue being broken up by a bass solo, a ballad and a recitation of the kind applause nature by the Canadian. The solo offerings got most the ensemble numbers, sounding slightly flat in spots. The “cockney’s” ragging of the Scotchman and his comedy recital of his experiences while on leave pulled continuous laughs at the Columbia.
14 Mins.; One.
These two girls have been with a legitimate production. For vaudeville they look like a strong combination through the “nut” comedy of the larger member. Opening with a straight double number, novelty southern number in which one carries the obligato. the straight solos, with comic interrupting and pulling “nut” stuff that caught on like wild fire at this house. ‘ The comedienne then sings in a colored dialect and “wise” delivery that temporarily held up the act. Her mugging in this number was classical.
