Hill’s Animals

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The trainer dresses badly in a dingy suit of formal evening clothes, and sets his animals a poor example in his lack of animation.
The act is somewhat delayed also by the constant setting up and taking down of apparatus of which there is an immense quantity.
Dogs and a pair of goats make up the troupe. A faint comedy flavor is introduced, but rather as an incidental and the points are not well worked up.
Not a little of the routine is novel and interesting, but the trainer fails to get the full value from bis material through poor showmanship. There is little or no parade, the tricks being run off indead, flat monotony.
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Variety 8:5 (08/31/1907)