Eight Lunatic Chinks
Eight Lunatic Chinks, formerly the Eight Lunatic Bakers, but new wigs, new act, but with the same old routine, including the old boxing bit. A good flash for the small time.
Coakley and Dunlevy
Coakley and Dunlevy, a two-man blackface team with a special set showing trenches, came next and got laughs all through the act, but could not get much in the way of applause. They put across their stuff with a wallop, and one of the men sings two ballads that slow up the running. The material and act is out of date, and the audience didn’t care to be reminded of the war.
Fred Weber
Fred Weber and company followed. They open, the dummy sitting on a bench talking, with nobody in view on the stage, the man later coming out of cut-out in a special drop, then going through a routine of comedy cross-fire talk, and finished with a yodel and walks off to noisy hand, falling to come back for a bow.
Chad and Montie Huber
Chad and Montie Huber, with a purple plush drop in full stage, danced and sang their way into an encore and four big bows, the act mostly consisting of them imitating inimitable stars like George M. Cohan, Rock and White, and several others, but as the audience have not seen the stars for several years (if ever) there was no doubt in their mind as to the imitations. The woman makes five changes in costume.
Vee and Telly
Vee and Telly, a man and woman, assisted by a dog, did some excellent hand-to-hand balancing and tumbling. This act should have closed the show, Arnold and Sobol found it hard to hold the next to closing spot.
Harvey Devora Trio
Harvey Devora Trip, another black and tan act, with two men and a lady, one of the men doing wench, got big laugh out of their hoak all through the act, but walked off to hardly anything.
Lubin and Lewis
Lubin and Lewis, two men doing black and tan, knocked ‘em for a goal. They put over their comedy talk like showmen, Lubin doing a hard shoe dance, stopping proceeding then and there. They finish with a comedy song and went off the applause hit of the bill.
Swift and Daley
Swift and Daley play some novelty musical instruments, with some bright comedy talk between, Swift, a good showman, does comedy and gets all he can out of it, while Miss Daley, a clever musician, plays her instruments exceedingly well, but he act is badly arranged, and with a better routine could hold a later spot in the pop houses.
Princeton and Watson
Princeton and Watson held next to closing with ease, a few of their gags missing in getting laughs. Princeton exhaled his slang that appealed to all. It seems strange to see Miss Watson doing straight, not even singing one number, when she had worked so long to establish a standing around here as a singing comedienne. It looks like a good single gone to waste for half of a fair double, though the act did very big.
Faber and Burnette
Faber and Burnette, doing Flanagan and Edwards’ old act with the bed scene, made another clean sweep. These two chaps went through the routine, putting their talk and hoak across in a manner that marks them for the bigger time. They close in “one” with a ukulele and jazz kazoo combination with a parody song entitled “Topics of the Day,” taking them off for a half a dozen bows, with more if they wanted it.