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Singing.
"Till We Meet Again," "I Love to Hear a Good Old Irish Song," "Alcoholic Blues," and "A Vacant Chair in Dixieland."
Van and Schenck, on fourth, were a riot. They held over, and a change of routine being necessary was the probable why of the dispute over the song. Rousing applause greeted them on entrance, they giving "Till We Meet Again," and hitting the celebrants hard with "I Love to Hear a Good Old Irish Song." A Yiddish comedy number had a finish that was an electric spark to the gallery gods, It being "what does an Irishman care for his life it he can kill a couple of Jews." Great glee was expressed and kept up even after Schenck had started the contested number. "A Vacant Chair in Dixieland" took them off, but there were several encores, and the songsters "killed 'em" at the finale with "Alcoholic Blues."
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Variety, 54:10 (05/02/1919)