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The setting represents an iron cage generally in use for animals, and dogs are disguised as wild beasts.
An extremely humorous portion of the act is a "cat race." Four ropes are stretched from the stage to a bar near the flies. A cat scrambles up each, and the one landing in a basket at the top first is declared the winner. One of the dogs is called the "jail breaker/' releasing the trainer from handcuffs, and there is also a "disappearing trunk trick," in which a dog and cat are involved.
Mr. Baron scored a very big hit Monday evening despite the orchestra, which he was obliged to direct in addition to running his act. For the second show the musicians displayed a lamentable ignorance of his music. It seemed as though they had partaken of a heavy dinner at a German restaurant. Baron's act, a foreign one, over here for the first time, is as entertaining in its entirety as any animal act in vaudeville.
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Variety 10:3 (10/19/1907)