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Singing and comic dialogue.
The setting is two leg drops in "two" showing an adobe hut and prairie waste. A cowboy soliloquizes about a dance the boys are going to have that evening, and that he was waiting for the girl who is to sing the songs before the entertainment. The girl dressed in Broadway style arrives, and some crossfire chatter which is pointless leads to a double topical song. The man announces he is going to do a recitation while she changes her dress, and recites something about a horse and the Rio Grande, which is lost on account of the slurring of the words. The woman then sings a musical comedy number dressed in evening clothes, and the man dresses himself in a tuxedo and joins her in a little more talk. He next sings a popular number in which he gives his own manner of pronunciation, and the woman returns dressed in another evening gown, in striking contrast to the setting. A dance to jazz music lets the act off slowly. The turn is presented in an amateurish manner as far as the entrances and exits are arranged, and the delivery of material by the man could be greatly improved.
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Variety, 53:6 (01/03/1919)