Eddie Mack and Dot Williams
Time 14. Open in 1, close in 2. They sing and dance. Miss Williams has a “baby” voice which she uses to advantage in some “kid” impressions. Mack is a fair dancer. Average act.
Zara Carmen Trio
F.S. special black plush cyclorama. 2 men, 1 woman. Time 8. Hoop rolling and baton juggling. A pleasing act.
Eva Tanguay
Miss Tanguay seemed to have no trouble in holding both our Monday audiences for 25 minutes. All of her costumes are new and startling as usual and she has some new songs. She is daily rehearsing other new songs and probably in the course of a few weeks there will be little in the act that the East has seen before. Business seems to be just as big during her previous visits, and while she may not neat her last year’s record here it seems probable that she will hold up to it. Miss Tanguay is carrying her own trombone player this season and we understand that she carried a leader up to last Saturday night, when she let him out. She also stated Monday that the piano in the orchestra could not play during her act. (Indianapolis)
Frank R. Montgomery & Lottie Medley & Co.
Dramatic playlet entitled “Told in the Hills.” Two men and one woman. Special set. Full stage. 18 minutes. Frank Ward arrived from New York Monday morning to work in the act. The sketch is neither very good nor very bad. It seems to lack action is spots and there is an abundance of talk that could be condensed. I should say the act might do well in number two or three spot but not much later.
Adler & Arline
Man and woman. 13 minutes in one, using usher for hypnotist subject in a burlesque way. Man in act also occupies a place in the audience. The act starts quietly, but before its finish is a scream. The man imitates various sounds, after having been placed under a hypnotic spell. The [sic] took the team sometime to break away from the audience at both the afternoon and evening show. The act can hold down a better spot on almost any program. (Columbus)
Mrs. Langtry & Co.
“The Test.” 16 minutes C.D.F. Two men, one woman and Mrs. Langtry. So much has been said about this sketch that a continuation of this subject would be simply repetition. The sketch is bad, has no action and the acting is without any merit whatever. The heroic action of the male members of the company comes as the result of one man calling another man’s wife by her first name and kissing her hand. Such heroics are considered “mock” by our audiences. Mrs. Langtry’s costuming of the act is really the principal part of the offering. (New York)
Australian Woodchoppers
Full stage, 14 minutes. This is not a new act to Cleveland, having appeared previously at a cheaper house. They begin with a moving picture of the Australian woods, have a lecturer who’s fair, and work unusually hard during their time on the stage. The act in a novelty and gets considerable applause. (Open)
Emily Darrel & Charley Conway
Comedy sketch “Behind the Scenes.” Man and woman, bare stage, finish in one, with velvet drop. 19 minutes. This is a very clever act and can work further down on a bill. There are a lot of good laughing points, while the costumes are changed so frequently that the audience is kept entertained. (Syracuse)
Welson Troupe
Aerial artists. Five people, 12 minutes in 5, Garden. What this act needs is speed. They do some very clever work, but they take too long doing it. If they should cut their time in half and work their act in six minutes they would get over much better. They carry a little excess baggage in the way of a gentleman who holds a ladder and removes the rigging, and who evidently doesn’t know the moaning of speed as he takes considerable time in all of his undertakings. (Columbus)
Mullen & Coogan
Two men, 18 minutes in one. Too light for this spot as they have nothing to offer but very aged jokes, some burlesque, the “Steve” which was put on the market a year ago at least and a few moments of dancing. Their best joke “How does a goat smell?” we cut, while “What grows larger the more you take from it. Answer “A hole,” still remains in the act. The offering will go well with a burlesque show but not where women and children attend frequently as they do in this theatre. They open their act with an impersonation of drunken men and close burlesquing a Mother poem which combination is outside the boundaries of what people here believe good entertainment.