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Clifton Crawford's charm as a singer, story teller and dramatic reader is quite as elusive. "Magnetic personality," that spacious, glittering fake 'of word coinage, is entirely unsatisfactory in expressing his peculiar anile of appeal. His is splendid, virile American humor, clean and direct. As a light comedian he is as smooth as cream, with all the niceties of bearing and delivery, and there is a vast amount of simple power in his serious readings. His rendering of the Kipling verse is a gem of unostentatious delivery. As a reader of Kipling Crawford is to be recommended to the disciples of the much discussed Englishman
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Variety 10:1 (10/05/1907)