This is a European act that has been with the Empire show all the season, and it is one of the few foreign acts that is able to go on and make an American audience laugh. They make-up as clowns and do some very good acrobatic work, and also introduce the rubber ball bounding act made familiar by overall European performers, but the feature of their act is the finish in which they do the Mr. & Mrs. Nightengale imitations after the style of Pudinoff, and with two people it makes it a great deal stronger. They went very strong this afternoon, and it is a really first-class act. 12 minutes, full stage. GNH.
Grand Opera Singer. She has a very good voice indeed and went very nicely, but, I think now as I have always thought, that there is no signer in the world that is worth the money that we pay her, to us, unless she can create sufficient interest to draw it in, and I don’t think that she is going to do it here. As a matter of fact, I think that so far as the New York House is concerned, that a woman at $75. Or $100. Per week would be just as valuable to us as she is. 12 minutes, in one. HRR.
This is an act by two men, Cantwell formerly being of the team Ford & Cantwell and Jennings of the team of Jennings & Alto. The act is only fair, principally because they don’t do but very little dancing. Jennings’ work with the cane is all right and they do a little dancing at the finish which goes very well, but it is hardly worthy of the place in the bill which they have got here and I shall change them in the morning. They will do all right to open the show. 20 Mins. in 1. ER.
This is the original Harry LeClair, formerly LeClair & Russell. He has a now act now in which of course, he makes a specialty of impersonating the female character, but he has some very fine wardrobes and his ability in this line is too well known to need any comment. He first appears as an actress and sings a song deprecating the large number of amateurs in the business, and the song is interspersed with some very good patter; he then changes and does a crazy imitation of an ambition Ophelia in Hamlet, in which he also does a song, and his third change is as Faust. It is a very clever act and went very big. 22 minutes; full stage. GYH.
Man and woman in double juggling specialty. They have quite a lot of original apparatus and their different tricks are all performed cleverly. This is a good act for a small place in the bill. 12 minutes, full stage; can close in one if necessary. HR.
An act of mimicry and whistling in one. He went very good indeed. These is not much of anything that is original about it but he is quite a nice looking chap and his different imitations were very well received. 10 minutes, in one. HR.
In “Jimmie’s Experiment”. Four people. Miss Bergere’s new sketch does not give her the opportunity for strong dramatic work that “Billee’s First Love” did. It is more designed to hit general vaudeville audiences. She has the part of an up-to-date athletic girl, vivacious, independent and slangy. She changes from fencing costume to evening gown after a fencing match with her lover, Jimmie. His experiment by disguising himself as a burglar to have her seek a man’s protection is successful and is worked out with brisk action including an effective horse race speech and a melodramatic climax. The lines are up-to-date and Miss Bergere is finished and magnetic. Her support is good and she can make the sketch a success. 25 minutes, full stage.
Singing comedienne. Her burlesque on illustrated songs was highly amusing, and she scored very strongly. 11 minutes in one.
A well dressed singing and dancing act presented by four girls and three men, all of whom have very good voices. While the sketch is rather unevenly constructed, and some of the comedy could be eliminated work is excellent, and the price considered, it is a very good offering. Carry their own set. 24 minutes, full stage closing in one.
Man and woman who give an excellent exhibition on the flying rings. 10 minutes, full stage.
