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Singing and talking comedy.
"Ben Bolt."
Goerge Richards and William Armstrong, in a two-man sketch in "one" are respectively a rube and a policeman. They each look the type, but their material in the talk division has been so poorly turned out it will be hardly of any avail to them anywhere. It is playing upon words mostly, and when not that "Jamaica" is used, also a repetition spell about a "friend named 'Goodbye'", something a little worse than "Watt street." Otherwise the rube as a country sheriff meets a city cop, and they gab about "Mystery," one referring to a horse and the other to to a crime., then the rube interprets the description by the cop of a horse race, both men later singing, the cop using "Ben Bolt." If the two men retained their types and had them refitted with something more suitable, with a finish of popular songs, they would stand an excellent chance, but can not expect much from what they displayed Sunday in "No.2" at the Columbia.
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Variety, 40:4 (09/24/1915)