Mlle. Berenice’s Polar Bears

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The act was nine minutes long. An assistant performs gunplay with blank cartridges with the bears who are in a cage. The bears are wither deaf or use to the noise of the gun as they do not react. The act also contains a see-saw bit.
"Showmanship, or show-womanship, as the case may be, is an absent essential."
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Variety 29:10 (07/02/1913)