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Singing.
As it'was, Miss Lerner got a faint start because Shayne had tired the house and left it on the wrong foot for her. But, before she was in the middle of her first selection, the vaudeville audience realized that it was listening to no mere female Mike Bernard. Miss Lerner, sans any and all efforts at showmanship, her face scarcely visible, her costume a plain white semi-formal sewn, transfixed the audience and entranced it. Her applause was the sort that starts ten seconds after the last note, the hands not meeting until the humans in front can bring themselves back to earth to do earthly things.
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Variety, 54:13 (05/23/1919)