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On at 4.03, 11 min. in 1. This is the spot that I picked out for Lew Sully, but luckily I received word on Friday that Lew would be missing from this week’s bill. I must confess that I thought I was taking quite a long chance when I put Miss Vance down next to closing, but she simply walked away with it this afternoon, going much better than she did last season. She is singing for her final number the song that I heard May Irwin sing last week, ‘Afraid to Go Home in the Dark.’ It was an absolute knockout. As near as I can judge, Miss Vance’s value is largely a matter of whether she has songs suited to her style or not. When she has the real goods, she is ‘it’ for fair; but when she doesn’t, she looks as though she was sliding buck. She certainly has plenty of speed this week.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 23 September 1907-12 March 1908