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The act was thirteen minutes long.
Laura Buckley does an impersonation routine called “Studies from Life”. She walks up to a table onstage with wigs and makeup on it and is assisted by a maid who helps her change. She impersonates an old man, a red-headed manicurist, a grandmother, and a female demonstrator of a new breakfast cereal in a department store. She does semi-recitative songs. She changes into a long dress at the end and takes a bow as herself.
"Your Cuticle Reminds Me of My Second Husband"; "He's Only a Boy"
The humorous characters of the female manicurist and the shop girl pleased the audience.
She should eliminate the old man character because he conflicts with the other elderly character of the grandmother, who is the better of the two anyway. She should end the act in the same gown she started it in to "enhance the effectiveness of the final change."
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Variety 28:2 (13/09/1912)