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It is an unsatisfying program. The big readline act is Valeska Suratt is a disconcerting melodramatic sketch replete with underworld slang. It is real, old-fashioned melodrama, with the old-thing. As an exemplification of cave-man drama it is unique. Miss Suratt orates and intones a la Ethel Barrymore. Some years have passed since we had anything so stirring in vaudeville. In less than half an hour we have the “meat” of a full evening’s red-blooded underworld melodrama, so why sit through two and a half hours to get what can be dished out in one-fifth the time?
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 8 October 1920