Location:
Theater:
Date:
Type:
While this act is accorded some advance applause, there does not seem to be any weight to the name of Donlin. I might say, in describing their work, that Donlin is a ball-player and Tom Lewis a comedian, in other words Lewis is funny and Donlin only a fair straight man. Their specialty consists of some patter, which is very light, impersonations that are far-fetched and a bit of burlesque ventriloquism that gets a few laughs. At the money, they are an absolute frost and, in order to go the rounds (for the money they want – four figures) a great many changes are necessary and then some more. Twenty-one minutes in one.
Source:
University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913.