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“The Enchanted Statue.” 9 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). The little set these miniature people use, together with their small voices, make the “sketch” they are trying to present look like a marionette show. Loney Haskell, in announcing them through the program omitting the “Tom Thumb” portion in the description, and Mrs. Gen Tom Thumb is 73 years of age. The midgets are recalled by name and fame as freak attractions, having exhibited in side shows and museums for years, if not all the present troupe, some of them. They are not to be seriously considered as actors, and what they did doesn’t matter – it is the sight of these very little people who are so well known by reputation. But for vaudeville that means little now, as midgets are employed who are real entertainers, something the Thumbs probably have never aspired to. The setting is antique as well. The act showed “No.8.” It just drew curiousity, satisfied at first sight. The program billed the people as Count, Countless and Baron Magri, quite some nobility in the reading.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI no. 5, October 3, 1914