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The act was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Frederick Rodman Law recently jumped from the Williamsburg Bridge into the East River with a parachute while being filmed and has made a vaudeville act out of it. A backdrop shows the Brooklyn Bridge and a policeman is asleep nearby. A moving picture cameraman and a young blonde woman tell the officer that Law is going to jump and they are going to film it. Law appears, removes his evening clothes, and climbs a ladder at the side of the stage. The stage then goes dark and footage of Law’s original jump is shown. He enters again dripping wet as though he has just been in the river.
The audience greeted Law and his pictures with vigorous applause.
A lot of time is wasted in the lead up to the jump, but the moving pictures are the best part of the act and Law looks well in evening clothes. Law should jump off a real bridge sometime soon so that he can get some updated footage for his act.
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Variety 28:9 (01/11/1912)