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Mechanical dancing doll.
Singing and stories.
Jack Ingliss opens his act with a song about his former partners, mentioning Al Hawthorne and Jimmy Duffy. Dressed in the same old Palm Beach suit, opera hat and with corn cob pipe in his mouth he starts in with a familiar line of chatter. The remainder is the same material he had last season, with Duffy, excepting the imitation dance bit in which he announces a dance by Pat Rooney, which he fakes, and as an imitation of Eddie Leonard he shows a mechanical doll doing the steps in a spot light. The same instruments are brought out with each bow, but the placing of his fingers to his nose is new in the act. Ingliss is too good a showman to spoil his good work with so foolish a piece of business. His act scored big, and he should have no trouble in convincing people that he possesses an individual brand of "nut" comedy.
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Variety, 53:6 (01/03/1919)