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"Shoppin"
Howard Langford and Anna Fredericks are in a skit with author unnamed on billing matter. It is set in a hat shop, with Miss Fredericks calling to purchase a hat while Mr. Langford is there as a traveling salesman. They flirtatiously meet. After that it is dialog and songs, though Miss Fredericks manages to make one change by going into the "fitting department" (for a hat?) Miss Fredericks contributes looks and some fair "feeding." Mr. Langford is the remainder of the turn. He's the light and airy juvenile, of much personality who can sing. His "Week or Two" song is a comic of many laughs, and the couple have a duet number for the finish. If Mr. Langford and T. Roy Barnes were seen a month apart by those who had previously seen neither, it would be guessed that one is the other. That is how closely they approach one another upon the stage, in work and appearance. , Yet both are different, with his own individuality. The set adds something to the act and Langford and Fredericks are going to get along very nicely on the big time, if they and the managers agree on everything else. Vaudeville, to a juvenile like Mr. Langford, means nothing at all. It's merely a matter of material-dialog and songs. He can put over anything he goes after in it.
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Variety, 54:6 (04/04/1919)