If she wants to change costume she should take off the first dress rather than bunch it up under a shorter one.
stepped on his dog Tuesday evening and lost the small chance that bit offered
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
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.”
“Her own leader conducts the music, the piano accompanist having been done aways with”
Burgess is the same as ever, “his humor being confined in large measure to his old fashioned pantalettes.”
Jed’ is Golden’s standard character. Katherine Kittleman played the wife of Whiteman Mott and it did not work as “her husband being very young, and it militated against their scened together, hurting the effect.”