Punny McCarthy
The act was ten minutes long on the full stage.
Punny McCarthy was formerly a member of a pantomime company who has created a single juggling act. He does several funny tricks.
Spiegel and Dunn
The act was sixteen minutes long.
Spiegel and Dunn sing and dance in blackface. They open with a song in which the comedian is dressed in grotesque attire and the straight is dressed in a sack suit. The straight sings a solo while the comedian changes into evening clothes. The comedian does an eccentric dance while the straight dresses up as a woman. The two men then do some comedy talk, with the straight speaking in a high voice. They finish with several duets.
Thomas Higgins and Co.
This comedy sketch was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
Thomas Higgins is an Irish comedian who plays a man answering an ad to take care of an insane woman. The plot is similar to a bit in burlesque.
Saden O’Brien and Co.
This rathskeller act was fifteen minutes long.
Three men sing as straight, Italian, and blackface characters.
Lawson and Lawson
The act was twelve minutes long.
Two young men act as “bewhiskered Hebrews” and do some parodies and talk. Some of the jokes are taken from Howard and Howard and the comedian of the Avon Comedy Four.
Shaw and Bradley
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
A girl takes shelter in a cowboy’s hut on her way to a western hotel during a storm. He mistakes her for a cook he’s expecting. Comedy ensues when she attempts to cook and he shoots off his revolver to get her to hurry up. The cowboy is over six feet tall but speaks with a tenor voice.
DeArno
The act was nine minutes long on the full stage.
DeArno juggles plates, balls (like W.C. Fields), sticks, turnips, cannon balls, and more. He does some comedy talk as he goes.
Hardy Gibson
The act was eleven minutes long.
Gibson acts as a “singing souse” in English dress clothes. He holds a tailor’s dummy under his arm and proceeds to tell a tale about how he and his friend got into a fight in front of a tailor’s shop so he picked him up and ran. He leaves with the dummy and returns to sing two “blue” English songs.
Lucky and Yost
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
A young man and woman quarrel on the street and part ways to the accompaniment of a song. They walk onto a special office set and each sit on either side of a wall. The girl pretends to be someone else and makes a date with the boy on the other side. They meet back on the sidewalk again, fight, and makeup. They do a dance for the finish.
Lydell and Butterworth
The act was sixteen minutes long.
A man dresses as Bert Williams and a woman performs in blackface and a pretty pink dress. They do some comedy talk and the woman does some hard shoe dancing. The man does a soft shoe eccentric dance for the finish.