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10 Mins, One and Full Stage.
The comedy is not bad at any time. Most of it is gotten through one holding a violin without playing it and repeating a “nut” announcement while the other fools about. The acrobatics are taken from a spring- board /mostly, with some new- tricks in that line. One of the team makes several heavy falls. The boys do not try too much talk and handle it well enough as they do their comedy, with the acrobatics the main strength for applause. For “an encore in “one,” it is announced Mr. Larson or Mr. Wilson will do a “double from the ground,” “the only person ever successfully doing this feat” The man on the stage intently watches the wings where the other is supposed to take his start from, the orchestra strums up to the acrobatic break, when the one in front of the audience yells to the other if he did the trick, and hearing the reply, “Yes,” bows ta the audience arid walks off. The house seemed to take to this scheme of foolery and the light applause almost immediately was swollen into a volume that forced the boys to return, for two or three acknowledgements. It’s a good comedy acrobatic act with about the only question left as to whether one acrobatic trick at least should not be reserved for the finish in “one” with the present comedy ending of course retained.
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Variety, LVIII: 2 March 1920