Shields and Howard

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Singing and comic dialogue.
Two men, one doing comic the other looking comic in a tuxedo, assisted by a girl at the piano. The miss doesn't belong, but for that matter neither do the men. There is a bunch of gags all "released" and several songs. The comic has one dance bit that isn't bad, but that cannot hold up the turn. For a finish the men sang a Salvation Army number, the straight man going to an upper box to join in the chorus. His retreat was his own idea, but perhaps he wanted to put over one of the lines "She even washed the cooties out of Sammy's clothes." Can't be done for three-a-day.
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Variety, 54:6 (04/04/1919)