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Special railway station stage drop.
Comic dialogue and singing.
Miss Forgot It."
Taylor and Brown offered a nonsensical hodge-podge, "Miss Forgot It." The patter's good in sports. The woman wore the same dress throughout and didn't remove her hat, although an "exterior special drop" of a railway station permitted her to keep it on. She affects the "nut style" and a forgetful delivery, the use of the absent-mindedness being good for an occasional laugh. They used the carfare to 'Frisco gag, another about the man being called the candy kid for selling so many sweets and the one about the ring coming from the coupon store, but they didn't sound so old to the McVicker crowd if the laughs were to be counted. The man did a Jim Diamond of song in "And Up Went the Little Umbrella," and put it over effectively. The lyrics are farcical in construction and are rather broad in meaning, yet they go over. First act in a decade that defies stage superstition through using an umbrella without any interference from the wings. At the close Taylor and Brown offered a typical musical comedy number, the voices blending harmoniously, and the refrain bounding over from the start.
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Variety, 40:6 (10/08/1915)