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One of the best items of the new material is the use of a funny burlesque on George McManus “Newlyweds,” a cartoon series running in a New York evening paper. Mrs. Newlywed and the baby, “Napoleon,” appear, the mother being a rather nice-looking girl with a curious and not altogether agreeable method of enunciation, and the baby being of course a “dummy.”
At all times the ventriloquist has his voice throwing under perfect control. There is no perceptible movement of the
lips and the illusion of talking "dummies" is splendidly carried out.
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Variety 12:11 (21/11/1908)