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Blackface makeup, pantomime.
Comic dialogue and jokes.
"After the Barber's Ball."
The man revived the "500 for a stone" joke to much laughter, and his general remarks, also pantomime, got him a lot.
The slap-stick stuff ahead hurt Bogert and Nelson, opening after intermission, but this blackface team nicely pulled through under the weight. A couple of songs are used, to fit the occasion each time. The finish is funny enough, if one stops to consider. They sing "There's a bean in the bottom of the soup," repeating that line only about 15 times, while the whales a bass drum - and they get away with it.
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Variety, 38:1 (03/05/1915)