Albertina Rasch showed an improved dance routine, with more speed than marked her last season’s arrangement. A storm effect attended her creation, “After the Storm,” a Hungarian conception. The effect might be slowed down a few notches, The act went creditably.
Joseph M. and Mellie I. Norcross claiming combined age of 144 years, did the dances of yesteryear. There was no shimmying, but the dancing was pretty and put some of the nowadays wiggles to shame. Could have held a harder spot.
Opening, Black and Swan went away with more than the usual hospitality extended an opening number. Their dances are good, although they are far from showing anything unique. Bu they tool four bows on merited applause.
Adelaide Bell and Co. opened to the regulation half a houseful, but compelled attention with her contortionistic and legmania dancing. Three legitimate bows at the finish with the audience still coming attested the good impression registered.
Forrest and Church opened with old-fashioned costumes, special drop, the man strumming on a banjo, with the woman doing an old-fashioned minuet. They got to the bunch fast. Switching to an up-to-date routine, the man is behind as xylophone and the girl does some up-to-date dancing, stopping ‘em cold.
[New Act] Dancer, 11 mins; one. Nat Burns is a hard shoe dancer who also included some comedy chatter with his stepping. He appears a likely candidate for the small time in an early spot. Both talk and stepping, while not extraordinary, will entertain small-time audiences.
Stevens and Lovejoy, in a dancing conceit, got over nicely. Both are good steppers and have quite some production, with two special drops and a pretty gold-and-blue cyclorama. The act contains an idea that requires all the scenery to unravel and winds up in a fast dancing double in the full stage set. The dialog is mostly in rhyme and tends to slow up the action considerably between dances. In an effort toward novelty speed has been sacrificed most of the 15 minutes running time being occupied with the rhymed unfolding of the story.
Jack Joyce, who followed earned sympathy applause at first, but later managed to interest the audience. He has an engaging smile and a pleasing personality. These two, with the dancing that he does with the crutch and his one remaining leg, earned him the applause he received.
Eduardo and Elisa Cansino did a fast 15 minutes of real dancing. Their grace and activity not to mention the perfect good taste of their costuming and simple presentation, are calculated to show up a lot of “society dancers,” who make a lot more pretense in billing and parade in stage work. Their colorful specialty likewise fitted in nicely as programmed. Indeed the bill ran off just as printed and the original layout came through 100 per cent.
Poster Pirouettes, six girls in a classical dancing novelty with a pretty special full stage set, danced their way into three big curtains. They dance toe, classic and several other ways, in singles, duets, trios, quartettes, and finish with all six girls dancing a snappy Russian dance in very pretty costumes, The girls make a change of wardrobe for every dance, but at times the dances become monotonous. A good flash for the small time. This act was formerly the Ruloff and Ruloawa act without the principals.
