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Singing.
"In These Hard Times," "Mother's Angel Child," "Can You Tame Wild Women" "The Singing Waiter" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
There is no doubt but that audiences like to hear him sing, even with what might be termed ordinary ditties. He satisfied, without arousing any real returns - that is not in the measure that has been his heretofore. He nearly started something with the final song, a topical group of verses called "In These Hard Times," which, however, isn't quite up to his former offerings of like kind. He retains "Mother's Angel Child," used for an opener, but with some new chatter in between, saying he was going to call the infant "weather-strip" because it "kept me out of the draft." "Can You Tame Wild Women?" "The Singing Waiter" (bringing in popular airs) and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" completed his routine. The last-named song is of the "blue tune" kind.
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Variety, 53:6 (01/03/1919)