1. TOM CLARE
Entertainer at the piano
2. JOSE COLLINS
The Famous Musical Comedy Star
3. 'THE OLD AND THE YOUNG'
By Louis GOODRICH
4. MAURICE TOUBAS
In Violin and Saw Solos
S. NELSIE NEVARD
In English and Chinese Songs
6. THE ORCHESTRA, under the direction of LESLIE WOODGATE
7. MAX MILLER
Comedian
SAW-PLAYING is a new and unexpected branch of the musical art. It has already several exponents in Vaudeville, of which MAURICE TouBAS is the best known. Saw-playing is not easily mastered. The end of the saw is held firmly between the knees ; with the left hand the player bends the blade over to the left, the varying curve of the blade producing the different notes when a bow is drawn with the right hand across its back (playing on the toothed edge is not encouraged !). The tremolo, which is a feature of saw-playing, is achieved by the steady, gentle movement of one leg. Not every note is made with a separate sweep of the bow; the great art of saw-playing is to make so long a stroke that a succession of notes can be produced from it by manipulation of the instrument (or should it be ' tool' ?). It is not easy to extract a note from a saw-blade without the bow at the same time producing a squeak in its contact with the steel. NELSIE NEVARD we have heard before; she sings folk songs, including genuine Chinese specimens (though she cannot actually speak Chinese). JOSÉ COLLINS returns hot upon her recent successful appearance when her fine voice, that used to thrill us in The Maid of the Mountains, was heard to great effect in the famous song from The Land of Smiles. The sketch which forms part of this programme was written by Louis Goodrich for one of the famous Green Room Rags at the beginning of this year.