Douglas Fairbanks and Co.
This comedic sketch entitled “A Regular Business Man” was twenty minutes long.
Douglas Fairbanks, in his first vaudeville show, plays a young lawyer who is engaged to his “pretty stenographer” played by Jean Murdoch. She is about to leave him because of his neglect of her and the business. He eventually secures a wealthy client and $50 000 owed to him by his uncle.
Thos. A. Wise and Co.
This sketch entitled “A Chip of the Old Block” was twenty-one minutes long.
Thos. A. Wise plays an elderly comedian who once aspired to be a great dramatic actor and lives alone. His son, played by W.H. St. James, is a comedian too and visits his father with his son and wife in tow. They help fix up the old man’s place and there is a “quiet pathetic finale that is somewhat touching.”
Nate Leipzig
Nate Leipzig is a “card palmer” who has made a trip around the world before returning to vaudeville. He opens with a “little trick with red finger tips” that amazes the crowd. He then performed a number of cards tricks.
“The Silver Bottle”
“The Delicatessen Shop”
Kluting’s Animals
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Kluting works with pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs onstage. Three white cats do platform work and French poodles waltz across the stage. The cats also finish with some high jumping.
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Crane and Co.
Taking what is perhaps the oldest
theme known to sketchdom, the Cranes
have turned out a splendid laughing playlet,
full of catchy incidents, bright dialog
and amusing situations.
Jesse J. Lasky Co. with Florence Nash and Joseph Jeffers
This satirical sketch entitled “In 1999” by William C. de Mille was eighteen minutes long.
The sketch is set in the year 1999, where the “current conditions of the home” are reversed, and a woman earns the household wage while her husband stays at home. Florence Nash plays the masculine wife, who “brutally” leaves her husband (played by Joseph Jefferson) alone knitting baby clothes at night.
Mab and Weiss
The act was ten minutes long.
These “Lilliputians” or male and female team of little people sing and dance. They open with a comedy song and the man continues with a German comedy number. They close with a snare drum number.