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Short sketch comedy bit.
Songs and comic dialogue.
"By Request."
"Al for the Love of a Girl," "Oh, Can't You Come Home, Nell?" and "Jennie Dear."
The Bushwick audience, a cosmopolitan assemblage, laughed heartily at it.
The boys are employing a number of bits, which hen, properly worked out, should be capable of keeping them continuously on the big time. For an opening each introduces his partner. "All for the Love of a Girl," the only published number, is the first song. A comic, "Oh, Can't You Come Home, Nell?" has little real class or catchiness. "Jennie Dear," another of this sort, is good for laughs, owing to the use of slides, with the chorus in foreign languages. This idea can be worked up until it is sure fire. There are times when it drags. Templeton is a nimble dancer and more could be done by him to good advantage. A medley taking in old and new songs is used to close. The act opened intermission and was further hindered by being the fourth male turn on a seven act bill.
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Variety, 38:10 (05/07/1915)