Derkin’s Animals

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9 minutes full stage special set. Exceptionally fine exhibition of animal training, in fact, one of the very best dog acts that has as yet played here, but in view of this town’s antipathy to animal acts they do not cause the enthusiasm here that they might command elsewhere: This act also played the opposition here about three seasons ago and this act has its effect upon the reception of the act at the hands of our audience many of whom have already seen it, which fact alone would materially hurt the act, especially as a feature for us.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 11 May 1914-1 July 1915