Howard Brothers

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2 shows, 12 min. in 1. They did their straight banjo work here, refusing to cover up the names of the maker of the instruments which was prominently displayed on the stand that holds the banjos they juggle with. They claimed they had a contract with the manufacturer and that they could not do that portion of the act unless the stand was displayed and so cut it out altogether. There is a rule regarding this advertising issued by Mr. Keith some years ago and it should be lived up to. If they had been held up in the first house they appeared in we would have found out earlier that they were in the employ of the Washburn Banjo Co. As a straight banjo team they did not go so strong as some of the others whom we play.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904