Ned Wayburn’s “Side Shows”

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Opened in two showing the company “making-up” in a canopy, each girl singing to the various characters, as “Wild Man of Borneo”, “The Bearded Lady”, “The Living Skeleton”, “The Albino Princess”, “The White-eye Kaffir,” “The Dog-faced Boy.”  Next scene in one with Harry Pilcer singing an appropriate song.  Scene three, shows the exterior of a side-show, introducing the various novel characters, such as “three-legged sailor girls”, which created some few giggles; “the giants”, which is quite novel and got some few laughs.  Next scene in two showing the view of the ocean with Harry Pilcer and dot Williams singing a song relative to the bathing-suit girls.  The suits are inflated creating first a murmur and some giggles, and some laughs and finished on a roar.  While the act was not a sensation, it pleased.  The novelty is worth the money I am paying for it.  25 min
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Keith-Albee managers' report book, February 4-September 9, 1907