“The Third Degree”
James Clemons
Howard and Howard
Bandy and Fields
Three Musical Johnsons
Ward and Curran
Toledo
The act was seven minutes long on the full stage.
Toledo opens with two minutes of pantomime during which he walks across the stage, lights a cigarette, and sits down to read a paper. He then takes off his coat and curves his body backwards until his hands touch his ankles. He does some “cakewalk stepping” in that position. For a finish, he stands on a kitchen table held in place by a stagehand. He bends backward until he touches the floor and then “raises himself into an erect posture on the table.”
Big Jim
The act was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
A trained bear roller skates on its hind legs, does a turkey trot and “grizzly” stepping to the tune of “Grizzly Bear”, plays dead, and does some comedy wrestling with some plants in the audience. The announcer (speaking in a German accent but dressed in Mexican costume) states that the bear is six years old and weighs three hundred and eighty pounds. He performs without a muzzle or strings. He then “declares he has spent his life “breaking” bears, has trained twenty-eight of them, that this one is the first ever taught to skate or do acrobatics.”
Rush Ling Toy
The act was thirteen minutes long on the full stage.
Rush Ling Toy is a “Chinese Magician” who does a routine which includes substitution, sleight-of-hand, and levitation. He performs in front of Mongolian tapestry hangings. For one trick, he he places a person in a box and they instantly appear in another. He also hypnotizes a woman into levitating in less than six seconds. He is assisted by two men and a woman.