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Acrobatic tricks and whiteface makeup.
One man works in whiteface and baggy trousers. Straight does most of ground acrobatics. Routine goes in for some rough and tumble stuff at the opening, with comic getting the bumps. Feature rests in pinning in stage hand atop a brace of tables and chairs, with the clown of the turn sitting in a chair over the man's head but supported on the woodwork on both sides of the man below and which he balances for a minute and then swings backward, chair tilting high enough to clear man's head, with chair and comic going to the floor, the acrobat turning a somerset as he passes through midair. The pinning of the man some feet above the stage by the chair arrangement and a wooden support makes it look dangerous for him until the clown is through with his antics above him.
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Variety, 53:7 (01/10/1919)