George Felix and Berry Sisters

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“One Word Bill” 18 Mins.; Full Stage – Exterior (15); One (3). George Felix and Emily and Clara Barry have a new construction for Mr. Felix’s pantomimic nonsense and the Barry girls’ songs and dances. It is called “One World Bill,” by Junie McCree. The ground work amounts to giving Mr. Felix a reason for being on the stage. He speaks but one word at a time, and that not very often, only in answer to questions by either of the sisters. The act is an exterior, bare stage really, with a fence and a table about the only set pieces in it. Mr. Felix enters behind the fance. He is pantomimically awkward as of yore, and finally clambers over the picket railing, although the opening in the fence is but a few feet away from him. When later discovering that, he climbs back, and re-enters through the gate. The fun of the new turn is all Felix’s as much the same as his former familiar and popular act, in which the Barry girls have been assisting him for a couple of seasons. The newest item in the current number is the closing in “one.” It starts with a “table scene,” Felix as the waiter, and briefly culminates by converting the table and chairs into a comedy taxicab, Mr. Felix as the chauffeur, driving the two young women off. To the audience the trio played as though roughly broken into the new act, but the regulars around the rail Monday afternoon, aware the turn was lately launched, knew that Mr. Felix would improve it in spots with repeated playing. His comedy work is nearly relieved and set off by the Barry girls, who dress well, nicely sing and dance besides handling the dialog necessary for the best effect. It’s Mr. Felix’s fun-making that holds up the turn, however; in fact, would hold up any act he is connected with. He has a field to himself over here in his particular line of work, and he is very funny at it.

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