Mansfield-Wilbur Co

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23 minutes in their own set, full stage. We have been trying to figure why this act should get $500. There is absolutely no need for their carrying their own scenery and we think it nothing more than a bluff to increase their salary. We consider the sketch a very bad one, the acting fully as bad and if it was not for the finish which, by the way, is far from being great, we would have been compelled to close the act. I have seen the act three times and each time I see it I feel sure they are getting money under false pretence.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904