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Allen makes herself into her eccentric character with hideous make-up.
"Skates" - Miss "Tommy" Allen and her new partner, Daniel Fager, continue the theme which Allen and Cormier (a sister team) used to excel in vaudeville. Miss Allen still plays the "champion roller skater and can rusher of the Ninth Ward." She has a flow of slang which is not too dense for the average person to comprehend. She obtains laughs through her demeanour and her "loose limbed" dancing methods. Fager plays the typical drunken clubman on his way home. He meets a girl on street and begins a conversation. Miss Allen leaves the stage to "run an errand," allowing Fager to perform a specialty of his own. Miss Allen then sings a "slang" song and performs her odd dancing. Allen Chanler's "Skates" applies to both characters as Miss Allen is wearing skates and her new acquaintance is carrying a "skate of his own."
The act created a big laughing hit before an audience which might not be judged as predisposed to comedy of this sort.
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Variety 21:10 (02/11/1911)