Jim and Marion Harkins

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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.
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Variety 46:2 (03/09/1917)