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"Frenchy Don't Cry" and "Ali Ali."
Belle Baker, following the whole show, found a more than friendly audience. Bells tore off seven songs, with "Frenchy Don't Cry" leading the field by a wide margin. The opening song, a Dixie number, has been overdone to the smaller houses long ago and should be dropped. As usual, her Yiddish numbers brought big returns. The Italian song is not for Belle, who mixes up her wop dialect with her Yiddish frequently. As an encore, the crowd demanded "All All," a Hebrew chant with a beautiful melody. This was delivered with genuine expression. The speech thing was ducked by bringing Jim Dooley out for a bit of unrehearsed kidding.
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Variety, 54:11 (05/09/1919)