Conroy, Le Maire and Co.
Howard and Howard
The Great Lester
Bedini and Arthur
Irene Franklin
The Belleclaire Brothers
Gean Smith
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Gean Smith is a serious oil painter who times himself. He paints a horse head in four minutes and turns that head into a lion’s head in another three minutes. He also paints a tiger’s head and the finish of the “Salvator-Tenney” race. A small phonograph with a megaphone attachment plays Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem “How Salvator Won” as he paints it. His assistant then uses a telephone book to locate someone in the audience to bring one of the paintings home.
Billie Reeves
This one-man pantomime entitled “A Lesson in Temperance” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Billie Reeves plays his original “Drunk” character dressed in evening clothes covered by a topcoat and a grey mustache. He exits a “booze parlour” and attempts to make his way home. He has a duck in his pocket which squawks repeatedly. When he attempts to lean on a lamp post, it immediately jumps away from him. The keyhole of his front door will also not stay put. When he gets inside, many trick props revolve and move around the room (likely moved by incognito stage hands).
Gladys Vance
The act was seventeen minutes long.
Gladys Vance sings several songs. The first two are in character. The next involves a mirrored dress which was introduced to vaudeville by Mindel Kingston (of World and Kingston) three years ago. She finishes with a “dope” number, supposedly written by a former dope fiend. During the song she describes the effects of the drug and goes into fits about “home and mother”.