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“Motoring in Mid Air.” 10 min F.S. Three men, one dressed as a woman. Same old act, with motor cycles, intended as a “thriller.” About the last time this act or acts like it should be sent to this house. The people here are weary of motoring in mid air, globes of death, and other death-defying thrills. In warming up their motor cycles before the curtain goes up on the act, such a terrific noise is produced that it frightens the audience. Several women left their seats and walked out Sunday night while this noise was going on behind the stage and the curtain was down. From now on we will raise the curtain as the people can see what the noise is. This act came from Pittsburgh, and their apparatus did not reach the theatre until 1:30 Sunday afternoon. As it requires fully two hours to set, to the exclusion of all other acts, it was eliminated Sunday matinee. Too long a jump for an act of this kind, even when railroads are on time and yesterday the act was two hours late in arriving. On account of this act we will be glad when this week is over.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 9 September 1912 – 24 February 1913.