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Furniture store stage drop.
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Zeno and Mandel next to closing before a special drop depicting a furnishing store. Zeno is a comedy straight with a complication of light comedy, and Miss Mandel is all comedy and far from light - about 200 pounds. She is cheery, though rough, and points a voice of force, clarity and penetration which suggests that if at some stage of the unbroken clowning she would do a ballad legitimately she would stand up stronger and come nearer her ambition to tour the big circuits. In this she may take example of Miss Carus, who is at least as funny as she is, and who has, throughout her career, made herself conspicuous by always contributing one romantic or dramatic number without rag or mug. Miss Mandel needs direction and routining; she has much natural talent to work with.
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Variety, 53:7 (01/10/1919)