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18 min. F.S. at 9:02. This is a decided novelty and an excellent children’s feature, highly grotesque, and the animals work remarkably well. The manner in which Clermont dresses them up and makes them perform is very amusing and they seem to work willingly, without fear of the whip, which spoils so many animal acts. There are four ponies, three dogs, two roosters, beside some comedy supes [sic]. There is one dog that plays a bell-piano astonishingly well, and brought down the house. The act ought to draw very well with the little people. Close was very good with burlesque procession, and two curtain calls. Placing this act in the body of the bil is its saving, as the audience is not too tired to enjoy the nonsense.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 23 September 1907-12 March 1908