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15 min. full stage (can open in 1 if necessary) – Pierre Young’s rendition of “Beneath the Shade of the Shelting Palms” although not very good, as he has a chorus voice and is not a soloist, was encored on the merits of the song itself. The “8.00 A.M. Duett”, by Nace Bonville and Emily Griffiths, was encored two or three times, as it deserved to be, for they sing well and dance with life and spirit, the two young men being particularly good. The double sextet was obliged to respond to a half dozen encores, and apparently did just as well as if it were not full of “ringers”. The men are superior singers to the women, and I very much doubt if any of the latter ever appeared in anything better than the second of third companies… Three at least of the men in the chorus were in the second company when I saw it at the Colonial. Still with all these drawbacks, I think they act will make good for salary.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 2 September 1902-3 September 1903