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This sketch entitled “Before the Rehearsal” was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
The sketch opens on a bare stage. Walter Daniels, playing an Eastern variety performer, then comes down the aisle and jumps over the footlights and onto the stage. He proceeds to “rehearse” with the orchestra and engages in some cross-fire talk with the spotlight man. It is similar to Victor Moore’s “Change Your Act”.
The audience "fell for" his recitation about "the palmy days" of performing.
Daniels is a magnetic character and a good entertainer. The act resembles the Moore sketch too much, but on any small big time or big small time circuit which is unfamiliar with it, this act should do well as a novelty.
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Variety 26:3 (23/03/1912)