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In Adam Killjoy. This is a rather funny sketch pretty well played by Mr. Holman who has a very indifferent support. A great deal of profanity had to be cut but the most offensive part of the act to mind is the palpable/scheme of advertising. This is the most flagrant thing of the kind that ever came to my attention. As he has played the sketch all over the country, I hadn’t any very strong grounds to stand on to make him cut the stuff out as he could easily show that it had been accepted in many of our houses. He plastered the stage full of advertising signs of various automobile concerns and finished with a motion picture that had no connection with the play whatever other than to advertise the Saxon Six. He admitted to me that he was collecting $50 this week from our local dealers. That, with what he gets otherwise and from the Saxon people, probably brings him up to $100 a week on advertising. I think this should be taken up with him before any new contract are made. 22 minutes full stage. Very short close in one.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 November 1916 – 21 January 1918