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Beside his Jack Lorimer burlesque, Dillon sang half a dozen of his parodies and left the audience demanding more.
Too many parody singers work on the principle that all they need is a string of words conforming more or less closely to the required metre of the original lyrics, with a pun, no matter how obvious, to point the last line of the refrain. Dillon's parodies are not of this machine-made sort. His parodied lyrics have a certain grace of diction and smoothness that most fail to attain, and there is real humor of a broad sort in them.
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Variety 10:3 (10/19/1907)