Farrell and Farrell

Singing and comic dialogue.

"The Troubles of an Actress." "Tennessee" and 'When I Get Back to My Home Town."

Farrell and Farrell, in 'The Troubles of an Actress," are offering one of those combination acts that open in "one" and finish with a dressing room in full stage. For the opening in "one" the girl sings 'Tennessee," changing the melody and lyrics to suit herself. She is interrupted by the man, who walks through the audience impersonating the manager. He "bawls" her for using the number, saying she had been instructed to drop it out of her repertoire after the matinee. Then she quits, after refusing to stop singing the number. The full stage shows a dressing room and she wanders in with a line about being broke, out of a job and miles from home. Some comedy with the man follows, with a burlesque acting bit included and the turn closes with "When I Get Back to My Home Town." What the act needs is a little speeding in the comedy and the cutting of some of the poetry, of which there are two or three bits in the act. One dose of it would be enough for almost any audience. The act will do for early on the small time big shows.

Variety, 40:12 (11/19/1915)