J. J. Desmond

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3 shows, 14 min, full stage. This boy is a wonder. He is only 15 years of age, weighs 105 pounds, but is the most perfectly developed youth whom I have ever seen. He first gives an exhibition of his muscular development, a la Sandow, then does a lot of weight lifting that is astonishing, because not one man in 50 of the candidates for firemen and policeman can accomplish it, I am given to understand. Then he gives an excellent exhibition of various sorts of punching. He has a lot of handsome apparatus. The act went well, and could stand for a better place in the bill than we have given it.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 21 September 1903-14 March 1904