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Mr. Elen sang "Wait Till the Work Comes Round," a song necessitating a setting, and about a "Son of Rest" lying in bed for the message to reach him that work is at hand. One of the chorus lines is "If you can't get work you can't get the sack."
The house held up the stage for two and a half minutes attempting to have him give another, but vainly.
As a character number and sung by Mr. Eden it left nothing to be said or desired, but three verses would have been plenty, perhaps then one too many. He sang four. It is altogether a new style of selection for New York. This was the only number the Englishman did not sing last week.
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Variety 9:3 (09/21/1907)