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Billed as Margaret Hill's "Society Circus." It may have been someone else's act, Miss Hill adding her name, for in routine it is very similar to several familiar animal acts. There are ponies, fox terriers, a monk and a bucking mule. The ponies take up the early section of the turn, followed by a jet black pony called "Frisco" who counts the days in the week and so on. The dogs then frisk about on a roulette wheel and together with the monk leap to the back of a circling pony. The finish is allotted to "Maude" and without calling for volunteer riders from the audience three fearless youths, one a darky, make the same "futile" attempts to ride the mule, one winning out as usual by grasping the neck of the animal. On third the act went well enough and like the other acts of its class is fitted for pop.
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Variety, 53:10 (01/31/1919)