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Featuring "In Mexico." Camp and
Harvey Brooks were the principals and this pair
got away with all the honors there were to be
had, though the dialog was at no time bright or
funny enough to call for more than a few titters
from the house. Walter Brower bandied a
"straight" part nicely, and with Jack Boland,
John Carroll, and James Chatham, formed the
Peerless Quartet which contributed their best efforts
in a specialty in the second act. Three Dancing Sunbeams did some acrobatic
dancing and a bunch of scantily clad bathing
girls, headed by Dora Davis, who sings Julian
Eltinge's "Don't do Near the Water," were turned
loose. Following the first act.
Camp and Brooks worked the old Billy Watson
stuff, "A Ticket or a Squigelum [sic]." Mona Raymond does
all she has to do very well and looks well all
through the show.
Shep Camp probably had un excellent
Idea for a show when he started to arrange "In
Mexico." and with a few weeks on It he could
make it rank well up with the average. It cannot
be placed there in its present shape.
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Variety 15:14 (09/11/1909)