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Featuring Al Jolson in blackface; Pierce Keegan; Dockstader
holds his own as one of our beat
story tellers. Toward the end of the first
part he puts over three short, catchy
songs, "Broke," "It Looks Like a Big
Night" and "Welcome to Our City." "Politics
Under Water" was his specialty; Neil O'Brien,
the comedian of the organization, was his
only competitor. Other vaudeville features were the comedy
sketch by Neil O'Brien, an adaptation
of the veteran afterpiece "Dr. Dippy's
Sanitarium," in which O'Brien, of course,
played the "Patsy." "The Left Hind Foot
of a 'Rabbit'" was an incident in the
"dream travels." There were eight important numbers in
the opening piece. Of these Jolson's "It's
Better to Have a Little Too Much," Will
Oakland's "Again, Sweetheart, Again,"
Neil O'Brien's "Everybody Looked at Me,"
Will H. Thompson's "Years, Years, Years,"
and Rees V. Prosser's "There's No Love
Like Mine" were the best liked.
There was unlimited variety
and shift of scene in the rest of the proceedings,
and it was noticeable that the
latter half of the evening witnessed more
applause than the former.
Some of its humor is old
and perhaps familiar, but by no means
dull on that account. Somehow it isn't
possible to imagine a minstrel show without
at least some of the reminiscent interlocutor-
end man dialog.
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Variety 14:1 (04/13/1909)