Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kara, eccentric juggler, is the first on the bill. In this sketch Kara gives a remarkable exhibition of skill and dexterity. An act of this kind, how-ever, usually falls flat unless some new and unusually difficult tricks are introduced. Kara has evidently recognized this fact and he does some things which seem almost impossible...
...sketch of Jim and Kitty O' Meara, entitled Memories of the Dance", gives an excellent exhibition of old-fashioned as well as ultra-modern dances...
...next act is a sketch by William Rock, who appeared in Boston recently in Rock, who appeared in Boston recently in Rock's Revue". Although the scenery of this play let is very protty and the acting good, it is not the best thing that Mr. Rock has done in a theatrical line...
...represented, to begin with, some of Lampy's most honored honorary editors, Charles Daffa Gibson, who now owns Life and with the aid of several former Lampooners is making it at last a worthy offspring of its proud parent, contributes a sketch. Stephen Leacock submits a friendly little piece called "The Oldest Living Graduate," which is placed at the head of the number, where any contribution by America's foremost living humorist deserves to be placed. There are also verses and sketches by the genial and versatile James Montgomery Flagg...
...second sketch, "Insomnia," is a local version of the "City of Dreadful Night" before those "damned exams!" We shudder our admiration...