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Singing, stories, and jokes.
"Broadway" and unnamed Irish song.
... he is quite as much a surprise as the monolog proper, for Lewis, with a few weeks more before the stage "apron," is going to force his way into the select company of premier monologists. Lewis always carried an enviable fund of personality, but working company he was forced to share attention. Out in "one" with a [Aaron] Hoffman monolog, Lewis is simply Lewis - and simply Lewis is sufficient. Opening with a nifty Irish melody, Lewis proceeds into the routine, a 10-minute original discourse on his birthright and some incidental anecdotes on the Irish. It's all new, all good and every single line productive of the coveted laughs. In several spots Lewis was forced to pull up and wait for his audience. His finale is a number labelled "Broadway," by George Cohan (who Lewis claims is a clever Irishman for taking a Jewish name), and it sent the principal away to the hit of the bill. Lewis doesn't pound in his points as well as he might, though this is sure to come with work, but the material, as it stands, needs little forcing. Lewis is surely scheduled for the big show, for he carries all the necessities of a big time monologist, plus an act that will do credit to Hoffman's reputation, and that's no mean asset either to a vaudevillian.
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Variety, 40:2 (09/10/1915)