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Tommy Gray’s patriotic sketch presented by Brown University students who donate their services; the salary paid the act being used to purchase Liberty Bonds (which were procured in advance) and the Bonds donated to the Providence Journal Athletic Fund. This is a very good sketch indeed and the boys as actors did not in the least suffer by comparison with the professional actors on the bill. At the conclusion of the act the orchestra played the Star Spangled Banner and we dropped a big flag from the flies; making it a big patriotic stunt which was unquestionably a big hit, and they act itself contains plenty of merit, making it advisable to move it from number three to this spot. 12 minutes f.s.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 November 1916 – 21 January 1918