Fred Karno’s London Comedy Company

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“Mumming Birds.” 30 in. F.S. 2 sows. This is a stage within a stage comedy feature on the regulation British style of humor. There is a good deal in it that is rather coarse in its spirit of fun, but the majority of the audience seemed to think it was a tremendous scream. There is certainly enough diversity about it to hold anybody’s attention. It comprises the oum? Male quartette and the Music Hall singer, the fake “Terrible Turk”, etc. The mixing in of the supposed audience in the boxes is irresistibly funny. This is such a new kind of fun for our audience that I am anxious to see how it will take with the evening audiences. If laughter and applause is any criterion, they certainly approved of the sketch mightily to-day, for although it was one of the hottest days of the year, the crowd forgot everything.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 30 April 1906 – 4 February 1907