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Rural sketch, 13 minutes, full stage, special set. There are moments during the action of the piece when many persons laughed, seemingly amused of the “comedy?” Personally, I was at a loss to discern any. If sitting upon a pan of moist dough, and upon arising having a mass adhere to one’s anatomy constitutes comedy, then I’ll take tragedy. Throughout the “sketch” the lady busies herself in making biscuits, while the man fondles a hunk of dough, and for a finish they pull of the sob stuff with the melodion [sic] and sing a song a two or two about the farm in good old Sunday School fashion. After viewing the affair one wonders at the vast army of idle and unemployed; why should any one be loafing?
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 4 July 1915 – 13 November 1916