Jim, The Jazz King

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(13 mins.) This bear was a good big hit and gave us a very good closing number. He had a routine of ordinary tricks but finished to a riot of laughs by doing the “shimmy”. This is one of the funniest bits of business we have ever seen done by an animal.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Collection, Managers' report book June 30, 1919- July 26, 1920.