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In a suffragette sketch entitled “Helping the Cause.” 22 min F.S. Half-hearted advance hand at each performance for Mrs. Langtry. There is scarcely anything to the sketch. Mrs. Langtry’s support is very poor. Cecil Bevan, at the “Governor,” Alfred Mansfield as the “Doctor,” and Mrs. Fleming as “wardress of the jail” are all very weak. At each performance Sunday the audience grew very impatient before the sketch was half over. At the end of the sketch Sunday matinee there was a very light applause, and the curtain call to which Mrs. Langtry responded was forced. Sunday night performances the restlessness of the audience was even more marked, and at the finish the applause was scarcely audible; the second curtain for Mrs. Langtry herself given without a single hand. Notwithstanding Mrs. Langtry’s clever acting, the sketch is an absolute frost, and its presentation about as poor, ineffective and amateurish as has ever been seen in this house. Monday’s newspaper reviews give the act an awful jolt. Mrs. Langtry has another sketch called, “The Test,” based upon one of the acts of her plays of a quarter of a century ago. This we will substitute at once, as it cannot be any worse, and there is every chance for improvement. (Indianapolis)
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913.