The McCarthy Sisters were a vaudeville team who specialized in “comedy-syncopated songs” which often had a blues or jazz feel. The act, composed of Margaret and Dorothy McCarthy, sported sharp, short Jazz Age bobs (just like Louise Brooks) and performed in the “George White’s Scandals” and “Greenwich Village Follies” and elsewhere. Among the performers with whom they played was Tom Patricola, who was in the “George White’s Scandals” alongside Louise Brooks.
Perhaps their best remembers recording is "Can't Your Friend Get a Friend For Me" (1925). Here is a YouTube video from the wonderful Desdemona202 channel. (If you like early jazz -- from the 1920s and 1930s -- check it out.)
And here is a caricature of the "cute" sister act, which suggests they were known for dancing the Charleston.
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