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Few in the house remembered him but Mr. Gordon talked very fast, and the rapidity in which he travelled from the time Columbus discovered America to the White House, leaving out no current topic of moment, caught and convulsed the audience. Not alone as a monologist does Mr. Gordon command attention; he has a German dialect that should not be overlooked. Had he been on in the first part, where the going was easy, Mr. Gordon would have been in the race for the honors of the show. He declined the hearty encore given, plainly showing lie considered his position no sinecure. It is sufficient when a monologist can hold an audience in its seats by steady talk for sixteen minutes when the clock is pointing to the hour of 5.
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Variety 10:1 (10/05/1907)