Rural sketch, 13 minutes, full stage, special set. There are moments during the action of the piece when many persons laughed, seemingly amused of the “comedy?” Personally, I was at a loss to discern any. If sitting upon a pan of moist dough, and upon arising having a mass adhere to one’s anatomy constitutes comedy, then I’ll take tragedy. Throughout the “sketch” the lady busies herself in making biscuits, while the man fondles a hunk of dough, and for a finish they pull of the sob stuff with the melodion [sic] and sing a song a two or two about the farm in good old Sunday School fashion. After viewing the affair one wonders at the vast army of idle and unemployed; why should any one be loafing?
6 ladies, 20 min. Full stage, spec. set. A spectacular affair sumptuously, gorgeously mounted as to stage accessories, with the participants beautifully gowned, and rendering a programme of classic and popular airs in voices of pleasing quality, interspersed with instrumental selections considerably above the average constitutes a particularly pleasing offering that met with very gratifying applause.
Bicycle act, 9 minutes, full stage. Although showing nothing new, they retain all that is the best in the cyclists stock in trade, those things which, though seen many times, are too good to be relegated to the shelf, and the act is, all thing considered, a very desirable offering.
“Burlesque Movies,” 15 minutes (1) special drop. Material is very original and of the laugh-compelling kind; especially as, the burlesque business which has to do with a certain type of the ‘movies,’ and here-in they obtain their greatest number of laughs.
Song, dance & comedy skit, 12 minutes, C.D.F. Extremely clever eccentric dancing by the man, highly artistic vocal renditions by the lady, the whole interspersed with a delightfully infectious vein of comedy makes a most successful offering that was received with voluminous applause.
Card manipulator, 18 minutes (1). Who would have thought, fifteen years ago, watching this man as one of the team of Berol and Beroal, “The Bagpicker and the Artist,” that he would have developed into the marvelously gifted entertainer he is to-day? Quite the greatest single artist we have ever had here, and in this laudatory tribute I voice the opinion of all who witnesses his marvelous skill at all performances yesterday. His was a flattering reception, truly well-deserved.
Song, dance and comedy, 2 men, 17 min. (1). The same two ‘nuts’ with the same parcel of ‘nutty’ nonsense as when here before kept the laughs many anf [sic] frequent, and success rewards their efforts on this, their second visitation within two years.
Musical, 2 ladies, 1 man, 15 min, C.D.F. A rip-roaring, roisterous [sic] bang-up of noise for a finish, with a few moments of melody in the earlier session, gave pleasure and received excellent applause. Our audiences yesterday evidently appreciated a volume of noise rather than the more agreeable strains of melody naturally looked for a musical offering.
Song, dance & comedy. (2) 13 minutes. Comedy produces gales of laughter, and the eccentric dancing, in which the act abounds, is very funny and the laughs were continuous throughout. NOTE: Two dancing on a three-act bill does not make much variety and there was a very discernible note of ‘sameness.’
Sketch, 3 men, 16 min. Full stage, special set. Well-written and exceedingly capably acted sketch, the audience receiving it with better spirit than any playlet presented here for a long, lomg [sic] time. In view of the town’s antipathy to sketches in general, the reception of this one was most gratifying.
