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On at 2.45, 14 min, in 1. He has been the leading heavy man of the Castle Square Stock company for the past two or three seasons. He made a little dip into vaudeville some three or four years ago, playing a week or two in the West and a week at the Union Sq. He is a fine looking fellow and is thoroughly at ease on the stage. Has a good voice and enunciates very clearly. HE opens with a Dutch paraphrase on Barbara Freitchie, follows it with an imitation of Sothern reciting a speech from Hamlet, follows this with an imitation of Joseph Jefferson in a scene from Rip Van Winkle, and closes with a sort of burlesque imitation of Richard Mansfield conducting a rehearsal. All of his material is thoroughly high-class, perhaps a little too much so for universal success, but I certainly think that this man should be encouraged in his desire to become a regular vaudevillian, for we have few monologue entertainers with his ability, natural intelligence and ambition to make a success.
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Keith-Albee managers' report book, February 4-September 9, 1907