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2 shows, 23 min. full stage. This actor, who has not appeared here for seven years, presented a costume sketch entitled, “David Garrick on The Art of Acting”, in which he is supported by a Miss Nordstrom, a clever amateur whom he is probably teaching at the expense of vaudeville managers. I must say, however, that she gives promise of becoming a good actress. Dixey himself was good, introducing several of his specialties in a most natural manner, and the couple danced a gavotte gracefully. There were glimpses of comedy throughout the sketch, which drew forth quiet laughter, and there were two curtain calls at close. The reception given Dixey when he first came on the stage demonstrated quite clearly that he had probably drawn a goodly proportion of the large audience assembled, notwithstanding the humid weather prevailing. For this city the sketch can be rated as all right, although I should say he was getting too much for it, but there are other cities in which I would not be surprised to learn in had failed.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904