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[New Act] Magic, 12 mins; one. On No. 2 with a girl as a page and two kid “plants” the former superfluous. Allen Gray has some talk that could stand rewriting. He delivers it in a monotone. Up to the time the kids stepped over the lights it looked like hard sledding for Mr. Gray, but with the added help and the ragged appearance of the two boys be managed to get a small amount of comedy out of the situation. A revision of his sleight of hand tricks would help as the present routine fails to hold anything above the ordinary. A switch in the monolog would do no harm as the act couldn’t get much less in the way of returns than it did Tuesday night.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 17 September 1920