This act entitled “Twenty Minutes in the Clubhouse” was fifteen minutes long.
The quartet of players consists of Bill Gleason of Galveston, George Crable (recently signed to Cleveland), Tom Dillon of Macon, and Frank Browning (signed by the Philadelphia Nationals). The boys sing and talk in their baseball uniforms. Crable tells a story about playing against Wagner in Galveston. The finish involves one of the men who pretends to make a long hit, jumps through the orchestra pit and back up onstage to be tagged out.
Fiddler begins as a “Chinaman” in front of a Chinatown backdrop. Both Fiddler and Shelton then appear in evening clothes and do a piano number.
This sketch entitled “At Clifton Corners” was fifteen minutes long on the full stage.
The backdrop is a painting of wheat fields and a log fence. There is a watering trough onstage. A girl enters on a bicycle and strikes up a conversation with a farmer. The farmer tells her about his experiences in New York and about his farm. For the finish, she falls into the water trough.
The act was nine minutes long on the full stage.
Three men and a woman do a standard routine of head-to-head- and hand-to-hand balancing.
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
The act features two pretty girls and a young boy. One of the girls sings, but shouldn’t. The girls do a duet and solos on brass instruments and the boy emerges to play the drums and the xylophone for a marching number at the finish. They open in blue uniforms and change to white. The girls wear pretty dresses in between and the boy wears a drummer’s uniform. He has long hair.
