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Juggling.
"Baseball Idiosyncrasies."
The sub-billing should be a riot in vaudeville before the act opens. Vaudeville easily falls for the "$2 stuff" and certainly 'Idiosyncrasies" is in the $2 class. It's some swell relative of "nut stuff," and maybe means in this connection that Frear, Baggett and Frear do as they please without any ground rules on the baseball diamond (an excellent way to stage this style of turn). So they do, truly do, in juggling clubs and throwing hats. A story opens in "one" before a ball park drop, when a rube is looking for someone, entering a full stage in a ball lot set, to find a couple of ball players doing the swiftest passing of golden dipped "baseball clubs" ever seen on the vaudeville stage. One of the boys just hurls the clubs on overhand throws to the other. In the boomerang hat work they are very neat likewise. There is a tinge of comedy, the boys and act look well, and the turn is easily an early number for a big time show. Henderson's had the act closing an entertaining bill, and the trio held everybody in at eleven o'clock, but they should ask for an earlier position themselves if not assigned in advance, for it would mean more to them in the future.
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Variety, 40:1 (09/03/1915)