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Man and woman in a comedy sketch, “Holding Out”. This act portrays the trials of a vaudeville actor and actress in an effort to get time in New York. The theme of the piece is very similar to Norton and Nicholson’s “Ella’s All Right”. The scene is the interior of a furnished room in what is ostensibly an actor’s boarding house, and the piece shows the various make-shifts of a comedy order resorted to by the pair to get along with their house-keeping, etc. There were a lot of good solid laughs and the act gained undivided attention all the way through. The finish was quite strong. Would term this a very but not great burlesque, or at least exaggerated comedy. Perfectly satisfactory. 17 minutes, kitchen interior.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 25 October 1909-30 May 1910