The Slave Hunt
A cottonfield is first shown with a company of negro slaves at work. The brutal planter appears and proceeds to lash one of the black women with a dog whip, whereupon a slave, presumably the woman’s son, strikes him down from behind with a stone. The neighboring planters are assembled to hunt down the murderer, and a “chase” is shown with the terrified negro pursued by bloodhounds. At the end he leaps to an unseen death from a high embankment and the planters, upon their arrival, fire a round of shots into his presumably dead body.
Barton and Ashley
Barton dresses as a tramp, his partner playing “straight,” costumed in a pretty house gown. Her entrance is rather old style and fails to arouse interest in what is to come, but after the appearance of Barton, there is hardly a dull minute in the skit.
The Baggesens
Franco Piper
Lee Harrison
The Vassar Girls
The costumes for the final number are a bit worn and the colored lights that go with the electric ballet at the close are badly in need of inspection.
Melodrama in a Bowery Theatre
Nat Willis
Singing Monologist