Franco Piper

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Banjoist- he does a rather novel act. He dresses the stage with 25 or 30 banjos. He commences his act with the straight selection and then goes into some rather remarkable juggling with banjos, playing at the same time. The act is a good one and valuable from the standpoint of novelty, but somehow or other he doesn’t seem to make such a tremendous hit with the audience, or rather he did not with our audience this afternoon, which I attribute largely to the fact that they don’t seem to appreciate the difficulty of the act. 13 min. full stage.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports,, September 2, 1902 - September 3, 1903