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Slapstick comedy.
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In the Marathon tribe the singing is good, which leaves the comedy bad. But still the singing and isn't so extraordinary that the members dare attempt solos by themselves. There is but one of these. The remainder of the vocalizing is ensemble so no one may be too much blamed. There are three comedians in the quartet. Three comedians in one quartet makes the comedy worse. More correctly, however there are three boys in comedy characters, "Dutch," "cissy" and "heavy legit." Each of the funny fellows was probably in the beginning expected to be funny, buy each appears to have left it to the other. They build quartets with comedy on the small time because the small time likes slapstick. In fact, nearly everyone likes slapstick when it's good, but the Marathons are only doing what they have seen other slapstick quartets do much better.
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Variety, 38:3 (03/19/1915)