Theater: Columbia

Winkler-Kress Trio

The act was ten minutes long on the full stage. The acrobats are comprised of one comedian and two straight men. There is nothing unique in their acrobatics or comedy.

Wallace’s Cockatoos

The act was eighteen minutes long. Wallace performs with his trained cockatoos. The featured “White Eagle” cockatoo is well-trained and performs without incident.

Tom Barry and Co.

The act was twenty minutes long. Tom Barry plays a messenger boy who has a dream about his idolized boy-detective hero, Nick Carter. In the dream, Nick Carter is defeated and Barry’s character “denounces dime novels forever.”

Dr. MacDonald

The act ran for eighteen minutes on the full stage. Dr. MacDonald’s electrical act is a very poor copy of Dr. Herman’s. The young woman sitting in the “electric chair” seemed to wince slightly, as if she had actually been accidentally shocked by Dr. MacDonald. He closed the show.

Mae West and Girard Bros.

The act ran for ten minutes. Mae West is now trying out a vaudeville show with the Girard Brothers, who were in the Follies Bergere show on Broadway. Miss West wears a “nifty harem outfit” and works hard. A cold prevented her from doing her best work, but she is “a lively piece of femininity.”

Louise La Gai and Co.

The pantomime entitled “The Tragic Rehearsal” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage. Louise La Gai performs a dance in which she is thought to be nude under a loose fitting leopard skin. “It is very effective, and the effect is obtained, it is said, by a Parisian suit of tights, champagne colored, which has toes.” La Gai does some toe work in a picturesque setting with her three assistants (among which A. Romeo stands out).

Van Brunt and Moore

The act was nineteen minutes long. Moore is a “stout jovial young man” who plays the piano with a unique method of delivery and has considerable stage presence. Van Brunt is “a youthful Joe Howard and Andrew Mack rolled into one.” His stage presence will also help him significantly in the future.