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YHR 2. Four men in a comedy and singing act. Two of these men are members of the original Gotham comedy Quartette and have been in England for several years. They have come back with two English performers and are only over here about six weeks – their visit being mainly on account of one of the Americans wanting to see his people. They return shortly and were very anxious to get a week or two while here with a view for further work. They all make several changes during the progress of the sketch, and the English half of the team is decidedly the better, one of the men playing an elderly maiden lady and the other a funny, slightly exaggerated English dude. These two are responsible for the larger part of what comedy there is in the act, and they certainly did make people laugh this afternoon. I only have them booked for one week and prefer to look them over again before I give a positive recommendation of the act for they were unquestionably extremely nervous this afternoon. At that, the act was a laughing hit, but seemed to sag in spots a little, and judged from their first performance their singing is hardly up to the standard of our American quartettes. 26 minutes, full stage.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904