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[New Act] “Lies and Lies” (Farce), Full Stage (Parlor). “Lies and Lies” is the old style vaudeville farce and looks as though it had been played by Wilfred Clarke when Mr. Clarke was vaudeville’s champ farceur. Lawrence Grattan wrote the piece. It is very aged, in the writing and the theme, while the present company of Mr. Bentley’s one man and two women besides himself, play it poorly. Still the thing is impossible for big time. Running in and out of doors with senseless dialog is not the vaudeville of today excepting on the small time. The small time can use this playlet for the laughs it gives but even them Mr. Bentley should substitute for two members of his company.
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 24 September 1920