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Elsa Ryan's near-comedy "Peg for Short" may be new in text but lacks the quality to make it a similar success to the things she has done in legit. The sketch starts slow, moves slow and, were it not for the aura of "Peg" of old that surrounds her, would die before the curtain drops. Sidney Toler, supporting her, does very nicely, but the consensus of opinion in the press box was that there is many an act doing four-a-day and going over bigger, which only proves that there really isn't so much "in a name."
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)