“Don” The Talking Dog

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15 min in one. Loney Haskell is nine-tenths of this act. He apologises and prepares advance alibis for the dog. Mrs. Haberland then induces the dog to “speak” several words in German, which are translated by Mr. Haskell. The dog’s efforts to “speak” evoke some applause, and there were people in the audience who declared that “Don” really did articulate, but the big majority of the Sunday crowds were prepared to treat the matter as a joke. At any rate there is lots of fun in the set, and it is a novelty.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913