Baby Owens & Co.

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20 min, FS, 3 shows. Very pprecocious [sic] child and soubrette assistant. Comes on stage in a very fetching costume which he changes to a tramp make-up in view of the audience. Some of the boy’s singing is good and got some applause. The woman’s singing is very bad, so bad as to be almost burlesque. The spoken lines are not quite up to the standard and the act is too long. Could not be heard distinctly from the rear rows. Cut talking to audience, ‘Shlitz’ in pants,’ ‘Hunter Rye,’ ‘Kicking stuffing out of Englishmen’ and ‘Baby Mine.’
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 4 September 1905-23 April 1906