Olga Petrova
The act was sixteen minutes long.
Olga Petrova formerly performed at the Folies Bergere music hall, where she failed to gain any popularity. Jesse Lasky has taken her under his wing and helped her craft this new singing and recitation act. She opens with a double-voiced song in a strong accent. She then does a semi-recitation number in which she imitates animals. This is succeeded by a performance of a dramatic scene from “Sapho”. Her encore was a French version of “Oh, You Beautiful Doll”.
Zelda Sears and Co.
This sketch entitled “The Wardrobe Woman” and written by Edgar Allan Woolf was twenty-three minutes long.
Zelda Sears plays the titular Wardrobe Woman. The setting is offstage at an opera house. The manager leaves the troupe, so the rest of them marry each other. The wardrobe woman marries the property man so she can get back to Broadway.
Fanny Ward and Co.
This sketch entitled “What the Doctor Ordered” was twenty-one minutes long.
The plots revolves around a “family scrap”. The setting is a parlour. Fanny Ward plays the main character and Mrs. Stanhope Wheaton and Harry Dodd play the elderly parts.
W.L. Abingdon and Co.
This sketch entitled “Honor is Satisfied” was seventeen minutes long.
The plots concerns a man who returns home after a year’s absence to find his wife eating dinner at the home of his best friend. The man concludes that to save the family’s honour, one of them must die. They draw lots and the friend comes up short. He attempts to shoot himself with a revolver, but misses. The man then agrees to die instead. Before he can shoot himself, however, his wife clings to him and insists that she is innocent and loves him and no one has to die. The man agrees and gives his friend the empty revolver as a souvenir of his scorn. He then takes his wife home.
The Venetian Four
This instrumental act entitled “A Night in Venice” was eighteen minutes long.
This all-male quartet includes a notable harpist and a talented violinist, who seem to overshadow the two younger boys. They play classical numbers until the finale, during which they play “rag” songs. The setting changes from a pretty Venetian scene to a church interior.
Smith and Alexander
Ray Cox
The act was twenty-nine minutes long.
Miss Ray Cox sings original songs accompanied by her pianist Joseph H. Howard. She changes costume four times. She does an Aeroplane number for her finale.
Sophye Barnard
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Sophye Barnard is a straight opera singer, formerly the prima donna of “The Red Widow”. She sings four numbers, one of which is a well-arranged operatic medley. She wears one dress throughout and does not make any changes.
Corelli and Gillette
This comedic acrobat act is eleven minutes long.
Corelli is the straight acrobat. Gillette is an excellent monologist who is also an acrobat. The talk becomes a larger part of the act than the actual acrobatics, but it is full of laughs.