Catherine Hayes & Sabel Johnson

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Sketch entitled “A Dream of Baby Days”. These two women have stunning figures and are beautifully gowned. They open in a parlor set with a bombastic dialogue, in which they hurl at each other an unlimited number of twenty-syllable words that are purposely mispronounced. This gives them an excellent opening and puts them on good terms with the majority of the audience. They follow with some individual singing, that of Miss Johnson’s being excellent. A proposal is then made that they go to bed and sleep on a piece of wedding cake and dream of baby days. The biograph sheet is then dropped and a moving picture is shown of the girls going to bed. They place the wedding cake under the pillow and the picture changes and shows a number of children playing. The play of the children gives an excuse for an excellent “chasing” picture, in which they are all seen running across the country. While the picture is being shown the ladies change their costumes and appear for their close in one in a Fauntleroy and a doll make-up. Here they do a little singing and dancing, which closes the act. They received a number of curtain calls and if judged by the applause of a holiday audience the act is an excellent one. C.D.F. in 3, close in 1. 25 minutes.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 30 April 1906 – 4 February 1907