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The sketch is a vaudeville version of the play, by Chapin, Lincoln.
In his characterization and appearance Mr. Chapin realizes to a high degree the popular conception of Lincoln.
At the White House
Monday's audience liked the audience immensely and was insistent in its demand for a further sight of the principal.
Although Moselle Tatum, the ingenue, was a bit uncertain at times, her charming appearance, however, predisposed her audience to take to her kindly.
Mr. Chapin suffers somewhat from an effort upon the part of the writer to pack too much material into too short a space of time and action. There is a surplus age of incidentals.
The sketch does not move swiftly enough for vaudeville.
If the star and playlet are to continue it will be by force of Chapin's Lincoln creation rather than by virtue of the sketch that has been built about it.
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Variety 5 :2 ( December 22, 1906)