JUGGLING FERRIER.
Hats, balls, clubs, etc., are the accessories used by Ferrier. The tricks are accompanied by a little talk with a catch line, “see.” This does not develop the laugh that it should for the featuring it gets.
FREO WEBER and CO.
14 Mins.
A drop showing the stage entrance of a theatre with a messenger boy (dummy), seated on a bench outside, with the man working the dummy from the back, gives the act a little different opening. A woman dues a small bit with the dummy and does not appear again in the act. The man takes up his position on the bench and the act continues, although, for a couple of bits, the dummy is again worked from the back. Another dummy, a baby, is brought in neatly and a very good “kid” crying bit is introduced. The act is a little different from the many ventriloquial offerings. There is no attempt at eating and drinking while handling the dummy, and the turn runs along smoothly and evenly with a reason. The singing and yodeling are very good, and the act makes for very good entertainment in its present surroundings. The act would stand up very nicely in the smaller big-time circuits. It went very good here, getting nice applause throughout and finishing strong.
FOX and BARTON.
The Fox of this combination was formerly of Gilday and Fox, a Hebrew dialect team. In this specialty Fox la essaying the well-dressed straight man but at times gets back into the old dialect The comedian tries a hair-lip character at the opening and does a semi- drunk at the finish. The talk contains nothing that would be worth remembering. There Is little point to it and at no time does it become funny. The one funny bit Is the short leg incident, done well and repeated for a good laugh. The singing of a ballad by the straight man will gain results in these houses where ballads are about as sure fire as anything that can be secured. Any time two men, straight and comedian, come on It. Is a cinch bet that a ballad will be forthcoming.
HALLEY and NOBEL.
This couple, while retaining the former style of turn, have worked out a new routine. The woman explains she is a picture star and desires a double to work for her in a flying machine stunt. The job is to be his if he will consent to ascend 17,000 feet and “stand” for a drop into the ocean. Asking how much he Is to be paid for the stunt and how he is to get the dough, she explains the money will be in the form of a draught—after he falls. During a change the man had a comedy lyric, “The Scandal of Mr. Buick and Lizzie Ford.” A ballad, then old-time songs by the woman for the finale, the man dancing during the singing. He retains his “sure” expression. The turn was liked on fourth. It fits the three-a- day bookings.
MAE AND HILL.
13 Mins
Clean cut young comedian in dinner coat and nice looking, statuesque girl in a well varied routine of singing and talk. The arrangement has a capital opening on a dark stage. There Is a crash and the comedian enters in the dark with an electric torch which flits about the stage, finally resting on the face of the girl, sleeping on a divan. Lights go up and burglar kisses girl and scoots off…