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Singing, stories and piano accompaniment.
Sidney Phillips with Ernest Golden at the piano tossed off an amusing single which failed
to arouse any enthusiasm. He started off with "Alcoholic Blues," then delved into stories. In
one Negro yarn he interpolated Walter C. Kelly's "slap the taste out of you" line, which isn't necessary and can go without harm. Some of Phillips' war stories aren't so new, but all war stories seem to grow old so quickly that they must be watched for stage usage; Phillips' finish number which he wrote himself, called "The Stars and Stripes Forever Played By Sousa In Berlin," sung to the air of the Sousa number, was done with feeling and it won a score.
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)