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Musical oddity, “The Lunatic.” This is Emma Pollack, who formerly played soubrette role with Harrigan and Hart, working with her brother, last season with the Models of Jardin de Paris. Scene is supposed to be outside a lunatic alum. Percy Pollack plays a senile old man with a sort of Charlie Bigelow makeup. Their opening song, “I don’t Know” gets a number of laughs and there is some good comedy sprinkled through the sketch. Act needs a few more weeks work before it will be altogether smooth. In the rough it has the earmarks of a pleasing act in 1 that will be a little different that the rest. Own drop in 1. Time 19 min.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 June 1910-20 February 1911