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including dance as well
Their early talk runs to rather labored gagging, but the singing does nicely and from midway of the routine to the finish they have an idea. It begins with a light comedy number, the refrain of which is something like "Give Me Back
What I've Lent You and Return My Sweetheart Too." The lyrics are partly recited in a quarrel bit, during which one of the men goes off and returns to the other most of his clothes, piece by piece, until he is reduced to a hat and a long overcoat from beneath which his pantsless legs show. Follows a reconciliation between the two and a final verse for an exit.
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Variety 45:8 (01/19/1917)