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Rhyming recitations.
Bob Hall, with a pleasing personality, submitted some "extemporaneous" rhyming with an easy, swinging delivery. He calls for topics from the audience which he sets to verse, and when "Roosevelt" was yelled he resorted to a recitation verse in which he employed such phrases as "more brainier," "to you and I," "he didn't want any big funerals, he wanted small ones," "there the minister spoke away" and kindred ludicrous expressions intended as impressive eulogies of the lately deceased ex-President, which elicited a riot of applause and necessitated a "speech." This being the case at New York's premier vaudeville house there doesn't appear to be much incentive for saying anything really artistic.
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Variety, 53:8 (01/17/1919)