Gillette & MacFarlane

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On at 8.53, 19 min, full stage.  Could close in 1, for about 2 min, if necessary.  At $250 I would O.K. this act without question, but at four hundred I confess a little disappointment.  Miss Gillette seems lacking in magnetism and her voice does not compare with MacFarlane’s, so that she seems considerably handicapped by the superior excellence of his voice.  I do not wish to give the impression that the act did not make good or will not make good in other houses, for I think anybody is safe in playing it.  The costumes worn are very fine, and Miss Gillette’s appearance in tights at the finish certainly does not detract from the act.
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Keith-Albee managers' report book, February 4-September 9, 1907