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Singing comedy.
"Kisses."
Rita Boland Clancy, singing comedienne, could have taken an encore had she so desired. She unloaded a big "plug" for "Kisses," by rendering it four times, first as a "straight" vocal effort, next as a blase Ziegfeld chorus beauty would deliver it, third how an Egyptian vamp, a la Theda Bara, would torture the number, and fourth the jazz version. Miss Clancy's ingenious style and mannerisms put her across for a hit.
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)