Merlin

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Merlin, the card sharp, playing a sort of low comedy version of Nate Laipsic’s veteran vehicle, produced a very telling youth as a supposedly volunteer assistant, and his speed and wit kept it alive and at times humming, which was big in view of the psychological coma of the house of the house.  
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Variety Magazine, LVIII: 30 July 1920