Merian’s Swiss Canine Actors

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12 min. A troupe of very well trained animals in a pantomime play representing a military incident in the Alps. The act is staged with special scenery and the dogs go through their work with no apparent urging, the trainer not appearing on the stage until the curtain. There is enough comedy injected to get plenty of big laughs and the act finished to a warm hand. A very good novelty.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 4 July 1915 – 13 November 1916