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30 min. full stage – Presenting for the first time here her latest sketch, “A Strenuous Daisy”. There has not been an act of this kind in this house for years that went bigger than did this little play, the audience applauding while Miss Burkhart sttod [sic] waiting to make her speech at the close, for fully two minutes. I do not think her support was so bad as has been said by the managers of other houses, and, as a matter of fact, it is one a par, if not better, than that offered by a dozen others who receive more money. The audience seemed satisfied in every way, and I don’t see any sense in managers setting up a “holler” when those who pay money have no “kick” coming. If fault is to be found with any of Miss Burkhart’s support, it is with the young man who plainly overdoes the part of a newly married collegian, as he makes him a “cad” instead of the shamefaced coward the author intended. In the name part, Miss Burkhart gives us the best acting she has ever done since entering vaudeville.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 2 September 1902-3 September 1903