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Deeley wears blackface makeup.
Singing and comic dialogue.
Mike Donlin, the world famed vaudevillian and picture actor (who at one time was also interested in the national pastime to the extent of being the "big stick" of the Giants) and Ben Deeley, the black face comedian, are offering a very snappy comedy taking act in "one" that should take them over the big time route with laughing results. Mike, clad in a suit of nifty looking Eddie Mack evening clothes and carrying a cane, which he handles with ease, and Ben, in his usual greasy dinge makeup, start off with crossfire talk which includes "I told you not to tell him that I told you," that is good for laughs. One "gag" about a miracle went over in good shape with the Election day crowd, but it remained for a little baseball verse added to a popular song to pull the big applause from the audience. Mr. Deeley sings one of Bert Williams' old numbers early in the act, and just before the close he offers a ballad, displaying vocal ability unsuspected. Then Mike talks a baseball chorus to the number that is very appropriate. The act was one of the hit of the Fifth Avenue's show the first half of the week.
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Variety, 40:10 (11/05/1915)