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Chas. Mack and Co couldn’t fall down at the Fifth avenue if they tried, the humor of their Celtic comedy sketch and the Hibernian types presented being as familiar to the neighborhood bunch as the Ninth avenue elevated or the 28thstreet belt line cars. One bit in particular in which Mack tell the aged “Tad” who plays opposite of the advisability of taking a big dose of medicine and then relating a yarn of hoe a man he knew had died of an overdose, struck a responsive chord that landed a gale of laughs. The sketch is filled with little human interest touches like this heightened and properly brought out by lifelike characterizations. Mack’s bagpiping and the woman’s Irish jig, not a buck and wing masquerading under false colors but the neat article earned heavy hands.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 16 July 1920