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Comic dialogue and some singing with blackface and English characters.
"Minnie, Shimmy."
Peck and McIntyre (two men) start on a lope, go to a canter and finish a mile a minute. One of the men plays blackface, and the other an English johnnie. The dialog at the start is rather weak. The Johnnie changes then to a captain of the aviation corps and lets loose his big asset, a resonant, beautiful voice. For contrast the comedian sings "Minnie, Shimmy."
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)