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SR 2. In a Chinese sketch entitled, “A Little Tragedy at Tien Tsien.” Mr. Loraine is supported by two other gentlemen and two ladies, and the act is considerably of a novelty in every way. It is presented with the best scenic effects that I have ever seen on any of our stages, it being a distinctively Chinese interior, and the scene itself gets in when the curtain goes up on account of its beauty and its elaborate nature. There is not very much to the act until the last five minutes, when Loraine is on the stage himself, and that pat of it is about as thrilling and intense as anything we have had in the way of the dramatic; the preceding lines, of course, being necessary to tell the story. I do not know whether the act will be in vaudeville next season or not, but if it should, with the change of one man in the cast, I could heartily recommend it for the entire circuit. It held the attention of the audience very closely and got four or five strong curtain bows at the finish. 26 minutes, full stage.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 14 March-21 November 1904