Location: Chicago

Mary Quive and Paul McCarthy

This Piano-Act was sixteen minutes long. Quive and McCarthy are musical comedy actors who are attempting their first vaudeville act. The act opens with McCarthy at the piano and Mary Quive on top of it. They sing a love song with good lyrics. McCarthy then sings a solo to give Quive some time to change. They sing “Loveland” for their finale and “Circus Day” for an encore. McCarthy is tall, handsome, and wears dress clothes.

Graham Moffat Players

This sketch entitled “The Concealed Bed” was thirty minutes long on the full stage. This sketch is about a Scottish man and woman who are to be married. The company is made up of Scottish actors. The man has promised the woman that he will join the “Teetotalers”, but goes out for a night of drinking with the woman’s brother. When the woman and her mother come back the next day, they find her brother sleeping and her betrothed sleeping in a bed concealed in a closet. More comedy is injected into the sketch by the inclusion of a gossiping woman, who knows everything about everyone in the tenement. She is evicted by the end.

Ada Reeve

Ada Reeve headlined the show and sang several new songs.

Loughlin’s Comedy Dogs

Loughlin dog’s do a comedy routine. The big finish involves a miniature roulette wheel which has never been used in a dog act before.

Ralph Stuart and Co.

This sketch entitled “Mr. Hamilton of New York” was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage. A young woman named Olga Petrovich (played by Eleanor Parker) lives in Moscow. Her brother offends a Major in the Russian Hussars and is challenged to a duel to the death. The brother escapes. The Major then comes to Olga and offers to forget the offense if she marries him. She refuses. Mr. Hamilton (Ralph Stuart) from New York inexplicably arrives, falls in love with Olga, and offers to fight her brother’s duel for her because he looks like him. The duel takes place offstage and Hamilton is the winner.

Thomas Jefferson and Co.

This sketch adapted from the work of Charles Dickens entitled “The Cricket on the Hearth” was twenty-five minutes long on the full stage. The plot follows the original Dickens work, with the characters of Caleb Plummer (played by Thomas Jefferson) the toy-maker and Tackleton (played by Walter Colligan) included.

Theodore Roberts and Co.

This sketch entitled “The Sheriff of Shasta” was thirty minutes long on the full stage. Theodore Roberts, a legitimate star, plays a man with a cabin on the Shasta Ridge. His wife does not love him and resents the isolation of the location. She soon falls in love with a travelling acrobat who recently murdered a man. The Sheriff is close to finding him. When she hears the Sheriff approaching her barn, she hides the acrobat in the hay loft. The Sheriff proceeds to tell the wife of her charms, making her husband jealous. When she and the acrobat try to elope the next day, the acrobat is killed by one of the Sheriff’s men and the wife is brought back to her husband.