Macarte’s Monkeys
Dorsch and russel
Smith and Smith
The act was eleven minutes long.
A father and son (who looks about seventeen) sing, dance, and talk.
Robinson and LeFavor
The act was fourteen minutes long on the full stage.
Two men have a routine of barrel jumping and straight acrobatics. The straight man handles the acrobatics while the comedian does some simple and original clowning with the barrels.
Hawthorne Minstrel Maids
The act was twenty-one minutes long on the full stage.
The Hawthorne Minstrel Maids consists of Harry Montgomery and Winnie Hawthorne in blackface, Miss Hawthorne as the interlocutor, Grace Edwards, Ida Melrose, and the Kirk Sisters. The girls are all in whiteface and are dressed in Colonial costumes with powdered wigs. Each of the girls does a solo and the Kirk twins do a dance. For the finale they do an “Indian” song and dance.
The Society Three
The act was fourteen minutes long.
One girl plays the piano and makes announcements. The other two sing. One of the singers has an English accent and a propensity for comedy. The pianist plays a rag and sings a solo with a good voice.
Those Four Kids
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Four young people sing and dance. Two boys do a hardshoe dance and they all sing solos.
Mme. Besson and Co.
This sketch entitled “Found Out” was nineteen minutes long.
Besson stars as a wife who stole a leather purse containing seventy-five dollars and gold jewelry from the beauty parlour. Her husband is a poor lawyer and is ashamed of the wife when he finds out she tried to hide it from him.
Kanthe Bros.
This strong act was fifteen minutes long on the full stage.
Three strong men do gladiatorial and “physical culture” posing. They also do a regulation routine of acrobatics and wight lifting.