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...bill at Keith's. The usual acrobatics, jazz, a monologue, skits, and a song-and-dance act of the old-fashioned type are combined to make up a light but very entertaining performance. The headliner is Nat Nazzaro, Jr., whose jazz band fairly makes the house rock in rhythm. The dancing of Viola May in this act is decidedly worthy of the Coconut Grove in New York...
...most obvious defect in the show is the utter lack of substantial music. Tunes there are in plenty, but none carries a rhythm that lends itself to memory; several start out promisingly enough, but after the first few bars, falter and lapse into inconsequential airs. Notwithstanding this handicap, however, which is quite offset by a wealth of Billy Van comedy, the piece provides a non-brain taxing, enjoyable evening. And as for the French joke on the red card,--something not new but done in a different way,--it must be heard to be appreciated...
Perhaps the individual star of a cast of stars may be found in the animated person of Anna Wheaton, who works energetically and always freshly throughout the entire piece. She sings and dances equally well, whether in the syn- copation of "The Baby Blues" or the softer rhythm of "Who's Who With You"; and in the spectacular "Bamboula" dance,--"a hula from Honolulu,--by way of Spain,"--she demonstrates her versatility once again. Johnny Dooley is sure of causing a laugh each time he appears on the stage; one marvels that he can survive the nightly administration of blows...
...work of the quartet was musicianly throughout; in tone, pitch and rhythm, all were excellent. Mr. Hoffman deserves much credit for the labor entailed, and we hope that this quartet may continue to gain the support of Boston audiences...
...searches for her first lover, despite the attempts of the second to put her off the trail, experiencing a chain of adventures which culminate at the Carnival of Cocoanuts, the annual Arabian Red Cross Festival. In this final scene comes which, it is said, is a dazzling display of rhythm and beauty...