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8 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). Telma is said to be a foreigner, appearing for the first time in this country. He is a contortionist, walking on the stage, fully dressed, to a billiard table, where he commences to knock the balls about, meanwhile twisting himself at angles of different degrees over the billiard table. There is a bit of comedy to this, but it is still contortional work, as well as the remainder, including a difficult twist at the finale, not forgetting when Telma made his head touch his hips, with a backward swing of the head, while standing uprightly. That’s some twisting feat, but it’s still contortion, something the big time hardly cares for any more unless it is embellished with more novelty than that afforded by Mr. Telma’s billiard table.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.1, September 4, 1914