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Comic war dialogue.
On just ahead was Norworth's "Somewhere with Pershing," taken from the "Odds and Ends" show. It has improved over the opening of early fall and is probably without the services of E. K. Hawley, originally featured in the vaudeville presentation. A trench skit, now that people are trying to give the war the "gate," might be deemed passe. Just the same, the Pershing turn is made enjoyable, that largely through the clever girl playing the French Red Cross nurse and the man now doing the American top sergeant. There is a reference to cooties which got a laugh. That was when the top tried to tell the French lass she was a cutie. The girl at one point pretended to pick something off the doughboy's neck and toss it gingerly to the ground. That also probably referred to' the constant unwelcome visitors of our trench fighters and didn't look nice. Yet some people giggled. The act cannot be brought up to date, but unless there is some objection to its war atmosphere it can travel along in good company. An overseas expression little used here cropped up, "toot sweet."
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Variety, 54:12 (05/16/1919)