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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1590, 14 October 1920, Page 36

Dan Agar, the principal comedian, is as Lucifer Bing in “The Bing Boys on Broadway” a quaint personage, well in contrast with Gus Bluett as Rotifer Bing. Mr. Agar iS an actor of much experience, and he comes off amusingly in an encounter with two confidence men, and in his pretended sufferings in an opium den. For there is plenty of change in the “Bing Boys,” and they visit the Chinese quarter and checkmate three crooks —Hop Williams, Shorty, and Diamond Gertie —who have inveigled the Duchess there to steal her famous diamond garter. There is "Something Oriental,” well sung by Myrtle Power to Eastern music and gorgeous incidental effects, with a slice of sensational melodrama for the rescue of Emma. Mr. Agar’s humour is t spontaneous.

For four years Jennie Hartley, who is to make her first appearance under the J. C- Williamson, Ltd., management in. the “Bing Boys on Broadway,” has appeared in the leading London revues. She comes with a reputation as a clever and attractive artist, a captivating comedienne, and a remarkable character actress, and she has an irresistible personality. In such items as . “Half-past Nine,” “I Wants Lovin’,” and “When Verdi Plays the Hurdy-Gurdy” (in which she appears as an Italian girl with a barrel organ and monkey, backed up by a monkey ballet), she has taken Sydney audiences by storm.