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Singing and comic dialogue.
They held the house right down the to the finish, having new popular songs, among which was a new ballad which Mr. Bobbe took as a solo.
Next to closing were Bobbe and Nelson, and they just about cleaned up on the show with their songs and comedy. There is no two-man singing act that touches these boys in vaudeville, because they add real comedy values to corking voices. It's a rare combination. Mr. Bobbe is the straight and Mr. Nelson the comedian, who works comedy through a system apparently rather than to attempt to ride it roughshod, keeping away from any attempt for continuous laughter, but making what laughs he does go after certain. ... As a straight man he [Bobbe] has a hearing that counts and unbends ever so slightly at times to aid Mr. Nelson's comedy, a trick that many straight men try but few seem able to properly gauge it, and invariably overdo.
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Variety, 53:10 (01/31/1919)