Filson and Errol

35 mins, spec set in 3, man and woman in a sketch ‘The Black Cat.’ A log cabin. Handsome Jack is a miner and the poor little wife chose him instead of Harold Gotmoney. It’s a hard luck story, tearful and pathetic, and the larger part of our audience would rather have stood on Chestnut Street and watch the cars go by. The Ushers on early in the bill gave the audience plenty of hard luck talk for one show. ‘The Black Cat’ is tiresome, heavy and melodramatic – too much as far as our audiences. The bit of comedy there is in the act is swamped by the hard luck.