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15 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Setting and Effects). Here’s a foreign dog act that is taking three or four curtains every night at the Alhambra. And it is not only giving unbounded satisfaction as a display of usual canine sagacity and intelligence, but is opening the second part and more than holding up its position. At the Alhambra Tuesday night the act elicited hearty laughter and at the close the house burst forth into unrestrained applause. Lipinski has gone a little further than the other trainers. More attention has been given to the strange setting of a miniature town and the electrical effects showing and passing of day into night are worked to an advantage. The program says there are 40 dogs. At any rate there are enough to “Act” as school “kids,” teacher, minister, police, townspeople, etc. The clock strikes twelve (noon), school is out and the “kids” dance to hand-organ airs. There’s the crowded bus, ambulance, cycling dogs, auto smoking and chased by policemen, and the fire at the close with the auto truck and automatic ladder. The feature of the act is the work of a “drunk,” this dog showing wonderful training. The act is an instantaneous hit. Worth while anywhere. First appearance on the side.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.9, October 31, 1914.