18 minutes, opening in one, special drop, going into full bare stage. ‘The Quakeress,’ a skit by William Collier and Herbert Winslow. Here is a real art – here is real personality – here is real refinement. Mr. Hyams is a comedian of the farce comedy type and lands every point with convincing adroitness. There isn’t any one on the stage daintier than Leila McIntyre. Their concluding number, a new waltz, is the quintessence of artistry.
20 minutes, opening in one, going into full stage, closing in one. ‘The Millionaires.’ The same old ‘Smith & Cook’ act, with the addition of a woman toe dancer. The burlesque on the Apache dance, also new, is very funny, and the act is doing well as ever.
16 minutes in one. Special plush drops. ‘A Vaudeville Cocktail.’ Mr. Lewis is unquestionably the best money value single man turn we have had this season. He has lots of personality, immense versatility, and undoubted originality. He is doing a little bit of most everything and doing it with a fine artistic conception. His prologue is a rich satire.
‘Great Moments from Opera.’ 31 minutes. Excerpts from ‘Carmen,’ ‘Il Trovators,’ ‘Rigoletto,’ and ‘Cavalleria Rusticanna.’ This is the sort of act that really elevates vaudeville. It is well put on, the numbers are well rendered, and a touch of novelty is contributed by Mlle. Doree, who speaks a sort of prologue explaining the stories of the operas.
12 minutes in one. One of the few remaining blackface teams in vaudeville worth playing. They did the same act and the same songs that they gave us a couple of seasons ago and were as big a hit as ever. The men have remarkable voices and put over their line of patter effectively.
10 minutes in one. A dapper fellow and a girl with a ‘Ray Cox’ voice, and the most extraordinary arms a comedian ever possessed. Miss Early’s dislocation during the ragtime songs is screamingly ludicrous. Without especially good voices, this team gets by nicely.
Song readings in one, 12 minutes. This lady was a big hit with us. This is the second time we have played her and I do not hesitate to say that she gets as much applause as anything we play in one and it is a great surprise to me that she does not get more work. Her salary is reasonable and her act is good.
“The Nightingale Courtship”. 12 min. Palace. These young men are made up as clowns and go talking and acrobatic work, finishing with a pantomime – “The Nightingale Courtship”. This is a very good act going very big with us.
Coon songs. 14 min. in one. I am somewhat disappointed in Miss Irwin. Her opening on Monday afternoon was very bad but at night she improved somewhat putting in a recitation that helped quite a little. However, she is not to be compared with many coon singers we have had and certainly does not commence with Stella Mayhew. I understand she was great in the act now being played by her sister Flo. I think if it were possible for her to arrange to get the act and introduce a couple of songs in it she would be much more valuable and would surely make good.
27 min, special drop in one. Going big. Cooper, the comedian of the quartette has the audience sing the chorus of ‘Dearie’ and handles them better than any one I have ever seen attempt this sort of thing. The audience go right in for it and enjoy it immensely. As a rule we are opposed to anything of the kind but I do not hesitate to say that in this case it surely helps the act and is a big hit.
