mechanical magic
two “real coons of differnet hues … following on the footsteps of Williams and Walker”
set at the beach in Atlantic City. Miss Fuller (playing Rose Tracey) checks into a hotel. She wants to have a swim but is worried about a young man who has “made eyes” at her. She decides to go to the beach with a dummy placed in a chair and wheeled to the beach who she says is her father. Hallen (playing an author, Reddy Merrick) follows her to the beach and starts talking to the dummy. Fuller appears in a bathing suit (“Molly Fuller in tights! It is a sight, and a pleasant one”. Hallen sends the dummy back to the hotel and takes its place. Fuller confesses her love of the author Merrick. As the curtain falls, they are “entwined after a thirty minute acquaintance”
ingenue has a bad habit of talking at the audience instead of to character on stage she is supposed to be addressing
She is “the most marvellous American toe dancer”. She “gives indication of pain while on her toes, relaxing into a smile only with an effort”
they have a seltzer syphon trick. They also have a gag where they try to wake their foot with an alarm clock
clever; leaping dogs are “the real stars” though there is pantomime