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Singing and comic dialogue.
For the first few moments of this turn last Friday night it looked as though the management was paying salary to La Pearl and Blondell to kiss one another. They seemed to like it, and the man paid the girl one dollar per kiss. It grew very tiresome and is altogether away from vaudeville or talent, but they gave it a Stan Stanley twist by inviting anyone in the audience who had the dollar price to also kiss the girl. A sailor plant responded and got a kiss for nothing. That was quite cute, but just as tiresome and as far away, etc. After the kissing episodes La Pearl and Blondell went into the ordinary and conventional two-act of its kind, as might have been expected from its start. The kissing makes them small time, both ways.
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Variety, 54:11 (05/09/1919)