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[New act] Talk and songs, 19 mins; special in three. The billing calls it a sketch, “The Drug Clerk,” but it is merely cross talk between man and woman before a drop representing a drug store interior with a soda fountain center. The talk is dull and the singing not brilliant. At the finish the man displays a few steps of eccentric dancing that might be made much more of. He likewise had a certain unctuous delivery of talk, but the pair have not the material. “Paying as little attention as possible” is one of the lines addressed to the woman partner by the drug clear. That’s a sample. It is hard to see where the turn fits in any company but the smallest. It’s not rough enough for the slap-stick and is devoid of anything like high comedy.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 13 August 1920