The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
THE KLEIN BROTHERS
6TJHIS is the first "brother' act I've
 ever interviewed, the "Kleln


 ever interviewed, the "Klein
 Brothers" in the superlatively gIittering gorgeous Winter Garden production, "The Passing Show" Immediately l beheld the eye-beA holding Kleins I knew that this chat must happen--and I beheld them in New York in one of the biggest shows ever produced on the Great White Way couple of seasons ago.
 As I said. had never before chat ted with brother" act; never in all the long seasons of my historiog- raphy.
 Elsie Janis and her mama have nchatted'' to me; Sophie Tucker and her papa" Lillian Russell and her current husband, Weber and Fields "chums,' but never in my life as scribe have I ever talked to real brother act until I met the Klein brothers yesterday.
 And if the Klein Brothers aren't real brother" act, even as the Dolly Sisters are real sister" act and Mcintyre and Heath real part ner" act, and May and Flo Irwin were a real sister act back wonder when Aunt Tillie" was girl, then there aint no sich animal" for these two nice Klein brothers just harmonize so well and look so much alike that two peas in pod haven't got anything on them, and--no they are not twins, Gwendolyn-just brothers, with about two years difference in their ages ana about three inches difference in their heights, and they just play into each others hands like a husband and wife at Auction" who know the same rules and understand the same signals, and-well-they are brothers-that's all and they do brother act which is ] exceptionally clever and amusing in "Tne Passing Show
 1 Yesterday--when I met the Klein Brothers-spic and span, brown suited. brown, derby-ed, brown sock-ed and 1 phonies in Brown" moistened the tip Of my perfectly good newspaper pencil and took out my little notebook-very professional don't yqu know-and nicely numbered the pages, and then wrote down their full names, ages, height weight and place of birth. the last named being New York city. | When Harry would now and then | glance out of his big brown eyes q think they wear brown to match their eyes) at my idle pencil after had made the first few notes, I'd hasten to write down several amorous lines of:
 Now is the time for all good men" f--and by the way, did you ever try writing that in "longhand?" It looks l u ldHSy ~ what stage reporters write on their pads and then-well-the Klein Broth CTS told me about their ''high school ing" days up New York way when Harry was freshman and ZAP (hes the shorter of the two-I tell you this so you'll know me- Al' when you see them in "The Passing Show") and after that down at Far Rockaway, where they lived alongside of lot of big theatrical bugs like Weber and Fields and the Rogers Brothers-Gus and and what do you think?
 Tt was this way" said Harry" be- ing more communicative than ZAP on
 short acquaintance. Poor old Gus Rogers died and left Max stranded for a partner; his grief was so great that he just couldn't go on with the show they were playing at that time, Tn Panama l-that was the name of the play-and so Max saw 'Al' and myself in a vaude- vile act at the Colonial in New York and said: Here are the very fellows I'm looking for so he came back stage and what do yo uthink?
 q was just about to think" out loud
 when 'AP interpolated:
 "The result was Max Rogers offered
 us the parts that he and poor old Gus
 had been playing, and we got the li-
 bretto of Tn Panama one Sunday after