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Eccentric dancing, red and black college hat and tight gray suit. Slapstick comedy, flopping. War comedy.
Singing comedy songs.
The first number used is semi patriotic, entitled "Sing about the Girl in the U.S.A." It is a capital opener for a single who has much talk bordering on the war subject. The real comedy occurs after the third song, when Ford does some burlesquing of the familiar picture, "Spirit of '76." There are a great many laughs in this part of the act during which he portrays the different characters in the picture. Some true Ford eccentric dancing comes in at this time, which includes a fall that would make Keystone comedians envious. The war talk is bound to go big, together with the flopping around Ford does. Getting down in the lights and calling it a trench will also bring the laughs. Johnny Ford has a "nut" single turn that is sure to go.
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Variety, 37:13 (02/27/1915)