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Blackface Comedians. 18 min. in 1. 2 shows. This is essentially a gallery act. The songs are good. The dancing on the sanded mat is immense. The talk is coarse, even indecent at times. It will have to be cut considerably to suit our audiences. There were many laughs throughout this feature, and the close was strong. They received two curtain calls, but almost all the applause came from the gallery and balcony. The cuts which had to be made were particularly flagrant and offensive. By referring to cuts from Boston and New York, we find that they cut out several things, but their substitutions were even more vulgar and worse than the matter formerly eliminated. One or two things were actually not even fit to be in print. Nothing was changed on the bill as to time, as it was found to play off O.K.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 30 April 1906 – 4 February 1907