Milt Collins

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Milt Collins got plenty of laughs from the proletarians on his Cliff Gordon’s act, the apostrophe of the possessive being not misplaced, for he uses not only the late comedian’s manners, but his closing gag about wives going on strike and scabs taking their places, and several of his best crackers intact; his start is unpropitious, due to poor taste to comedy, anent the origin of the Stars and Stripes, in which he says (and with a German accent!) that in 1776 our soldiers had ammunition and no ambition, but a woman came along with a red, white and blue petticoat, and when she waved it our soldiers got “ambition,” and they have followed the petticoats ever since – rather broad wit on such a delicate subject. Collins got laughs because most of his stuff was punchy hokum; at the last show Monday he did not get enough applause to warrant taking one bow.

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