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This act is just exactly as I expected it would be. It is novelty pure and simple. It interested our audience from the start to the finish. It makes a very brilliant stage picture on account of the number of girls and a decided relief from monologs and sketches. My idea is that the unfavorable impression made in Boston by the act was occasioned by the fact that too much was expected of it in the way of applause, hardly at all until the finish when the concerted dancing can hardly fail to interest any audience. In the case of Capt. Eddy’s act which we played here two or three weeks, the only thing that got any applause at all was the Red Huzzar Drill, and the section of the act going off frequently without a hand, and I am absolutely unable to comprehend how an audience can sit through that sort of act five or six weeks an appreciate it, and not see the difference between it and seventeen bright working showgirls. However, there is no accounting for tastes and the verdict of the audience is certainly the only thing that we can care for. 24 min, full stage.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 21 September 1903-14 March 1904