John T. Kelly and Company
Not a smart offering yet. The action is slow in developing, lack of rush. Recites the troubles of a boarding mistress whose boarders are of an affectionate disposition.
James T Powers
stepped on his dog Tuesday evening and lost the small chance that bit offered
Eddie Leonard and the Sharp Brothers
Emil Hoch, Jane Elton & Co,
McWatters and Tyson
They have cut out the dressing room scene. McWatters works the blackface change with stereopticon slide showing the rest of the minstrel troupe. There is a basket trick. Two songs are spoiled through use of lanterns. “A bright stage is far better than these fool light effects, but performers cannot see it this way.” Miss Tyson has the “mobility of countenance” of a Fay. “She can make more faces in a given time than a small boy who has partaken of green apples
Harry Rochez
spoils his dog and pony act with “too free use of the whip. It would be better to pass over a break than to administer correction in view of the auience.”
Mabel M’Kinley
“Her own leader conducts the music, the piano accompanist having been done aways with”
Neil Burgess
Burgess is the same as ever, “his humor being confined in large measure to his old fashioned pantalettes.”
The Three De Koes
They use head pads for balancing. “It is customary nowadays to wear these head pads for this style of acrobatics, but the same work, if not better, was done over forty years ago without their assistance”
Will Clarke and Company
“there is action to out action vaudeville” but “legitimate comedy” not slapstick. Skit about a man who suspects his friend is impersonating his stepmother to play a trick on him. He “commits assault and battery upon the real step mother under the impression that she is a masquerader”