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“On a Side Street.” Mr. Miles was the comedian of our summer stock company and received a warm reception on his entrance. Unlike other “stock favorites” Mr. Miles is entering vaudeville with a vehicle that is a distinct novelty and there is no other act “just like it” in the business. A novel set is carried showing a street scene with a brown stone front house and an apartment house adjoining. The story has to deal with a Southern girl who has had a spat with her lover and has run away from him, taking refuge in the doorway of the brown-stone front. The boy attempts to follow her but is corralled by a plains-clothes man. The janitor of the apartment mixes in, much to the discomfiture of the police office. After getting rid of the latter by telling him the girl has run off through the passageway leading to the apartment house, the janitor learns the girl’s story and decides to help her. When the lovers are reunited the officer returns and has a run-in with the boy and insults the girl with the result that the janitor turns the tables on him in an amusing manner and the curtain comes down on a big laugh. Mr. Miles playing the janitor in excellent style and he has surrounded himself with a capable company. Managers on the lookout for novelties would do well to look this act over. Own set in 2. Time 17 min.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 June 1910-20 February 1911