Harding & Ah Sid and Mlle. Olive

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[Jugglers] Although I don’t play these two acts in this double manner I want to send my review on them together as that is the way they are booked. I cannot, for the life, figure out why these people get $250. Harding & Ah Sid in this house are not worth over $125 and they might possibly be worth $150 somewhere else. Really I think they belong in the three a day class. They failed to score a hit here entirely. Olive does an act which for three shows a day, would be worth $50 – certainly no more. That would bring their joint salary up, at best, to $175 and that is big for them, especially if they do two shows. Olive does a fair little act, in a way, for an early spot on the supper show but cannot be used to advantage later than 7:30. Time for Harding and Ah Sid – 15 min. open in full stage, close in 1. Time for Olive – 11 min. full stage. Both 2 shows.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904