Al Reid

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Al Reid is called (at the Columbia) "That Little Johnny."
He semi-recites the songs, making each word understandable. This is necessary in Reid's case, for the lyric's count. A quantity of talk used with George Robie's "As a Friend" will hardly do. They laughed at it at the Columbia, but that bunch laugh at things that anywhere else would be considered tragic.
Reid on Wednesday night was easily as big a go as anything on the bill.
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Variety 16:5 (10/09/1909)