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“There is something decidedly depressing in the sight of any minister of God’s gospel clad in the garb of his church, walking out in ‘one’ on a vaudeville stage to deliver a routine of popular ballads”.
The audience found his appearance absurd, "as if a vaudeville comic were to mount the church pulpit in his stage make-up to deliver a sermon on good and evil".
He sings well, but as vaudeville is flooded with good singers, he has nothing exceptional to offer except for the image of a man of the cloth behind the footlights.
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Variety, vol. 41: 11. 11 February, 1916.