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He confines his talk to a
comedy review of the preceding acts
and after thoroughly convincing his
auditors that he is capable of "sewing
up" the show with a "rag" number, runs
through "Mr. Preacher Don't Help
That Bear," and then stops. Mr. Harkins
should do at least two or three
similar numbers, for it's a long time
since a really good male coon-shouter
crossed the eastern vaudeville horizon
and this Harkins looks a perfect
"shouter."
Thcv
earned plenty of laughs at the Royal,
but a reconstruction of the vehicle with
Harkins adding another son^ should
provide the improvement to brmg them
under the pale of a standard big time
turn.
Source:
Variety 46:2 (03/09/1917)