Military Octette

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42 min. A bunch of boys formerly in vaudeville and now in the service stationed at Fort DuPont,  Delaware. Present a minstrel first part dressed in army uniforms, two in blackface doing end-men. Program includes popular songs and ballads and a routine of jokes. Act could get over on performance alone but with boys in uniform it was a riot of applause.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 21 January 1918 – 19 May 1919.