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Monologue and singing.
Walter James is now in blackface, doing a singing monolog, and recalling in his makeup the late George Evans. Mr. James enters in a nifty looking suit, slightly comic, with a dapper looking hat and carrying a cigar. His talk runs to many subjects, without being held to any one very long. There is some bright new stuff in it and much secures laughter. A sample is when Mr. James remarks upon what science has done - that you may now eat in a restaurant and read a newspaper through a slice of roast beef. The songs used are a bit slow in tempo though on the comedy order, particularly, "Death, Where is Thy Sting?" Mr. James seems set for the three a day houses with this act. Work will develop his blackface departure and it's greatly ahead to his former tramp specialty.
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Variety, 53:8 (01/24/1919)