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Dancing.
Jazz music.
Frisco, aided by Lauretta McDermott and Bert Kelly's Jazz Band, initiated the Bronxites into the mystery of the shimmy and jazz. Frisco seems to be falling for the travesty stuff, as he has spread a deal of it through the act. He has, however, eliminated the big one of doing an imitation wallop of Benny Leonard when someone requested Eddie Leonard.
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Variety, 53:7 (01/10/1919)