Pedersen Brothers
Nellie V. Nichols
William Burr and Daphne Hope
This act entitled “A Lady, A Lover and a Lamp” was thirteen minutes long.
The act opens with Burr sitting at a white enamel table smoking a cigarette and Hope (a comedy blonde) singing behind the drapery. There is a red fringe lamp above the table. They banter, he sings a solo about wanting to marry her despite her frequent refusals, and then they sing a duet. For the finale, Burr runs out the door to commit suicide with a revolver. When Hope screams for him not to do it and that she will marry him, a gunshot is heard offstage. Burr then runs back inside, takes Hope into his arms and says “I missed.” The lamp went goes out at the end and is replaced by a spotlight.
Hufford and Chain
This act entitled “The Culled Parson and the Minstrel Man” was fourteen minutes long.
Nick Hufford and J. Dell Chain sing solos and duets. The blackface comedian plays a “colored minister” and the other man is the straight. The comedian does a sermon bit as the minister with some expectoration. The straight changes his coat, but not his collar or tie.
William A. Weston and Co.
This sketch entitled “The Attorneys” was twenty-three minutes long on the full stage.
The setting is an overcrowded library in which all of the furniture is musical instruments. The act opens as a sketch and evolves into a musical. The company plays songs on the “furniture”, the best of which was a hidden pipe organ. They do a xylophone number for the finish. Weston also does some German comedy. The company is listed as Franklin Mae, Max L. Hoen, Clint Harsin, Rught Verin, and Fred Varin.
Dolle Dalnert
Dolle Dalnert sings several songs, She wears a large picture hat for her first, then changes her hat and cloak on two different occasions. As she changes, she displays her bare arms.
La Crandall
The act was seven minute long on the full stage.
La Crandall is a young girl who wears a soubret dress and does a routine of wire walking. She uses a balancing poll as she walks.