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‘Nut’ Comedian, 12 min, (1). He made a few, a very few of the audience laugh just once or twice during his entire turn. How great a thing to have guidance, in a managerial capacity, of a ‘big time’ house! Where one can see and enjoy a real ‘single.’ Scanning the volume of vaudeville’s history one sees their names on every page, in letters of such slowing brilliance that Time itself can never hope to dim their lustre [sic]. But these ‘small time’ singles, with but few expectations, have much to accomplish ere [sic] they can ever hope to be chronicled in vaudeville’s Hall of Fame.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 4 July 1915 – 13 November 1916