The Trained Nurses

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A musical comedy sketch, 33 minutes, special set. About 17 minutes. This act is well costumed, the music is fair and the comedy is passable. However, the act has not the punch of Kathryn Osterman’s vehicle and was not received as well. A musical director, in the form of a young woman attired as a nurse, is carried. She seems unable to keep time with baton and our orchestra was forced to direct its attention to our own director. The two principals, Clark & Bergman are a very clever team, due in part to the fact that everyone else in the sketch is held down pretty closely to ‘hurrah’s’ and they are continuously thrown in the limelight. Bergman devoted the time after the show to telling us what a splendid actor he was, and what must and what must not be done to keep him from walking off the stage. He demanded to see all contracts pertaining to the act, and was, of course disappointed. He then announced his intention of quitting, as he assured us that he and not “The Trained Nurse” was the drawing card. Our advertising has not changed. (Indianapolis)
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913.