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Song writer and comedian. 22 min. in one. Mr. Thorton has apparently seen his best days as an entertainer. His Sunday matinee offering was a long, tiresome monologue of jokes and stories which he has told here long ago, and more than a hundred people walked out on him. At the matinee he fell flat. His delivery is poor, and there is no life in it. Sunday night he followed the same monologue, with an attempt at singing, but this, too, fell flat. This high salaried attraction is a dampener in an otherwise good show. To have kept him in seventh place Sunday night would have probably emptied half the house. We substituted Ward & Curran, who held the entire audience. Chicago.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913