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Jennings wears an eye monocle with his Englishman costume. Golf club set. A wide variety of costumes.
English accent, songs and talking comedy.
In Percy O'Malley Jennings, the vaudeville stage has one Englishman who sure knows how to wear his clothes, adjust his eye monocle and use that familiar English drawl and "haw-haw-haw" laugh without making himself offensive or boresome. In the new act which Jennings and Miss Dorman offered at the Fifth Avenue Monday night a big score was made at the start of their nobby and natty dressing. Jennings and Miss Dorman are immaculately attired in outing costumes and carrying out the impression they are at the Country Club to play golf. To help this idea a drop of a clubhouse and the greensward adornment is shown. For the finish both change to more conventional raiment, with Percy introducing a collapsible straw hat, good for a big laugh the moment he crushed it flat. It's a foreign patent, but it's surefire for vaudeville. Percy, in typical English fashion, makes querulous remarks to his attractive companion. Miss Dorman has improved in looks and style of working. She appears surer of herself and having personality is a splendid stage partner for Jennings. The turn is light and airy, excellently handled, handsomely dressed and couch in an environment that should keep it working in the bigger houses.
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Variety, 38:6 (04/09/1915)