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Comic dialogue.
"Live Wire."
The Harry Beresford type of old man character should never have any trouble finding its place in the sun of vaudeville attention. In "A Live Wire" he doesn't venture far away
from the matured makeup of the man who has lived his youth and still has his mental faculties working overtime and in his present delineation of Rodney Harmon, the old granddaddy of a sweet, girlish little flower styled Chum (Ella Houghton) he makes it stand
out like the rainbow. At the Harlem Monday night the Beresford offering proved wholesomely entertaining and undeniably refreshing. It's homespun stuff - well acted and with sparkling, humorous dialog that carries it along to success. The cast did well. Especial mention is due Miss Houghton as the he unsophisticated girl of the woodlands.
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Variety, 54:3 (03/14/1919)