Four Diving Nymphs

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8 min. Full stage, special set. Accomplish the usual and familiar run of plain and fancy diving in an expert manner, but, in my estimation, an act of this nature can do better in the big eight and ten act bills. Such work has been seen so often that it is rather tame and uninteresting as constituting a feature on a three act bill. The act is handicapped by our stage limitations, it being impossible for them to use all their paraphernalia, and even that which is used has a cramped and crowded appearance. With anyone’s knowledge of our stage space it seems rather surprising that such an act should be booked in here, knowing well that the splash from every dive can easily reach out at least three or four rows in the audience. And with dressing rooms under the stage a tank act becomes something of a menace.
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 4 July 1915 – 13 November 1916