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Performer displays shoes that give anyone who wears them the ability to dance incredibly well.
Pitch to the audience regarding the ability of the "tango shoes."
"Tango Shoes."
One [planted audience member] tries on the shoes, after which he offers a clog that got some applause.
It is more or less of a freak that seems too distinctly small timey. The second man [who volunteered to try on the shoes] remains perfectly still until the music starts and then he leaps to his feet and without the aid of tango shoes or any other device puts the first dancer to shame. In addition to the two men there are three women planted in the audience and as the announcer tries to lead the men into the wings the women shout an objection from their seats and start for the stage when an impromptu dancing contest is arranged in which the modern dances are burlesqued for comedy effect.
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Variety, 38:4 (03/26/1915)