Rice and Barton

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"Rose Hill English Folly". This included the acts "The Knights of the Red Garter", "Dixie Dan", and "Be Sweet to Me, Kid". "A Good Night's Rest," played by John E. Cain in blackface with a couple of assistants, is an old-time afterpiece, bringing laughter through Cain's excellent "coon." "A Little Bit is Better Than Nothing at All" (taken from that title). "Living pictures" are posed by Catherine York. Artists featured include The Four Londons, T. F. Thomas and Geo. W. Rice, Blanche Newcombe. There are eighteen or twenty lifeless and listless women, headed by (program) "Miss Idylla Vyner."
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Variety 13:9(02/06/1909)