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Singing.
Barry McCormick has been appearing in a sketch on and off for some time, and having an individuality he shows promise as a song single. His routine is made up largely of Irish stories and songs, some of a war nature brought up to date, and warbling is the main idea. The yarns are planted between the numbers, a fair proportion of the talk being anent the experiences at the front of one "Dinny." His first song was "When the 69th Comes Home," the second being "America Never Took Water," a soldier's lament against prohibition. "When Ireland Comes Into Her Own" was followed by a rhetorical effort, relating how Irish names figured in history and how the "Irish have won every war but their own." The final number, encored, was Lieutenant Gitz-Rice's "Pal of Mine." Arthur Grant accompanies McCormick on the piano. Other than making for a smooth running of the routine he hardly figures.
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Variety, 53:13 (02/21/1919)