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Leon Gauthier again comes forth with an animal act of original proportions. His former "Toy Shop" with its ponies was also a novelty. It may have been threatened transportation
difficulties which lead him to devise. a turn with dogs alone. The result is an offering of big time worth good for opening and perhaps better. The setting shows a house in process of
building with scaffolds such as used by bricklayers. The dogs in various costumes hop about on the "job." One ascends a ladder and descends on r little elevator operated from the rear
with comic effect. Another dog is supposed to be struck with falling stone and it plays "dead," Gauthier entrancing at this point to place the doggie in an ambulance. Before that, however, another mutt in widow's weeds hops in as a mourner. The finish is acrobatic, portions of the scaffold becoming swinging platforms and the dogs leap from one to another and then off. One leaps upward and through a paper "hoop," alighting on the other swing, and the finish has two dogs crossing each other in flight from one swing to the other.
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Variety, 54:7 (04/11/1919)