Theater: 23rd Street

Edwin Keough and Company

There are four scenes, two of which are real. The first, “Cove of Cork” is a pretty setting. “The Dungeron of the Concergerie Paris” is where the dramtic action occurs. Robespierre become panic stricken at the warnings on the cell wall and sees visons of victims who tell him his time has come.

Alfred Lester

His act may be likened to a “bare stage act” although he uses a setting.

Mabel Taliafero

Ran for thirty minutes and many would have wanted it to run longer. Miss Taliafero played the part admirably. Gave to the part a realism that caught and held the house. The original scenery was used.

Margaret Wycherly

“The plot is based upon an altercation between husband and wife, during which the man while in an intoxicated condition commits a furious assault upon his better half, who in self-defense stabs him.” The death is discovered by a maid. Various characters are are examined by the police. A confession is forced out of the wife when the threaten to blame her cripped daughter for the death.

Sam Watson

Crowning chickens at 11pm around town is not a common occurence. There are two pigs, one is a squealer and the other a full grown filthy looking hog which should not be on stage.

William C. Schrode

Used a giant’s head. Condensed verson of the spectacle. Mr.Schrode played a clown and was assisted by a boy and girl who were both good tumblers. The finale is an acrobatic dance.

Harry B. Lester and Mascottes

Inadequate rehearsal and lack of study in places. Should be smoothed out by repetition. Eight girls led by Pauline Elliott are uniformly pretty and shapely as well as gorgeously dressed. Closed with a patriotic song with red white and blue trimmings, which scored strong.

William Courtleigh

An American version of “A Case of Arson” but some of the parts have been well disguised. The supporting cast is smothered through the fine makeup and forcful work William Randall as the Inspector of Police. Delfiah Bryant plays the wife of the acuse and compels her husband to confes in a very dramatic finale scene. The sketch is overdramatically drawn.