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Singing and stories.
Tex Ellis is a blackface single of a different sort. Just a boy out of the Service, he was supplementing the shows at the Palace last week, at the instance of Manager Piazza, in order
to "show." Most of his stories are new and will appeal to the initiated because Tex tells them differently. One instinctively feels he is trying very hard, a certain unctuousness really being engendered through them. Tex has a sally about Brigham Young, in which the Mormon is styled "Bring-ham" Young, in order that the thought may be implanted he always insisted
they bring 'em young. Most of his other points are removed in just that way in. order to induce an adroit chuckle. He has a loose dance that is a semi or semi-circular shuffle for a
finish that exits him to a sheaf of applause. It is a little different from the thousands of dance demonstrations posed to view in times agone. They liked Tex very much here. He now shapes up as an almost sure-fire small time single.
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Variety, 54:7 (04/11/1919)