Jane Boynton and Mary Myers
The act was fourteen minutes long.
The two women play popular melodies. Boynton plays the piano and Myers plays the violin. Boynton also sings. They are dressed in brown Renaissance lace over satin dresses.
Ida Brooks Hunt and Cheridah Simpson
The act was seventeen minutes long.
Hunt sings and Simpson accompanies her on the piano. Hunt has a loud prima donna soprano voice with an annoying tremolo. Simpson then does a classical piano solo and proceeds to change into a Scotch costume with tights. Hunt finishes with her famous number “My Hero”.
Gilda Varesi and Co.
This sketch entitled “Little Italy” was twenty-one minutes long.
The sketch is set in New York’s “Little Italy”. A wife convinces her husband to let a male street singer come inside their home to teach her to sing. When the husband leaves, it is revealed that the wife and the singer were lovers back in Napoli. The wife plans to run away with the singer. She will escape through the dumb waiter and he will exit down the stairs. She leaves a note telling her husband to take good care of his daughter through a previous marriage because she has grown fond of her. When the husband returns, the lover comes back into the apartment carrying the body of the wife, who died from falling down the broken dumb waiter. The lover and the husband fight, but the lover convinces the husband not to kill him because he would be taken away from his daughter.
The Musical Elephants
Julius Steger and Co.
Marvine
The act was eleven minutes long.
Marvine is a double-voiced pianologist. He performed in front of a red plush drop curtain in evening clothes and a bow tie. He imitates Melba and sings “When You’re Away”, followed by a French soubret.
Claire Romaine
Belle Storey
The act was eighteen minutes long.
Belle Storey sings “straight” songs in a good soprano voice. In one number she sings “flute-like notes” which match those of the flute player who accompanies her.