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Dialogue.
"Bill Sykes."
Mr. McGiveney does some remarkably effective costume changes, but seated in a stage box Monday night were fully a dozen people who, when asked it they knew what he was talking about were unanimous in the statement that they couldn't understand a single word. It was very much like seeing a play in a foreign tongue after having read the story in English. Another defect of McGiveney's is his lack of differentiation in characterization. His best make-up is that of Bill Sykes and his worst that of Nancy, whom he portrays as a hag, which Nancy wasn't as a demonstration of the speed with which one can don and doff clothes bis work is second to none.
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)