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Musical farce, 27 minutes, C.D.F. 3 men, 10 girls, musical director. Sometime in the far remote future when the present-day generation of theatre-goers has long since passed into oblivion, they may perhaps have something worth while to offer; but if yesterday’s affair is any criterion upon which to base judgment then surely indeed theirs is a most hopeless task. Their singing is extremely poor, inasmuch as, considering the number of voices, there is very little volume, and as for melody, well, harmony and they are strangers. They fail to sing in unison some of the time and they can plainly be seen groping as it were for a word here and there throughout some of the songs. A few extra rehearsals perhaps would have been very much in order, as there are times when, particularly with the chorus, they seem not to know exactly what move to make next. And as for the comedy, well, perhaps the least said the better. From a spirit of magnanimity we can perhaps afford to be kind, and endeavor to cloak the short-comings and failings of our fellow man beneath the mantle of charity.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 11 May 1914-1 July 1915