The Eight Union Gatling Guard

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Good 4, 12 min, 2 shows. Eight men in a camp scene sketch part of which was Gatling gun drill in which they go through the full drill of taking their Gatling gun apart and putting it together with accuracy of movement. The act is a new one to the circuit. As to its value in this town considerable of that was taken away by the work of the Hoosier Zouaves which was at the new house week before last which is a faster and more exciting act. The finish of the act represents an attack on the camp which gives the excuse for grinding out about 100 shots from the Gatling guns, which rather effective.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 21 September 1903-14 March 1904