In the same act they had here last year “Mike Haggerty’s Daughter’. Ryan is very artistic and the act is good and would have been thoroughly all right in the show if we had had more new material. I should want a new act from them another year. 26 min. full stage, 2 shows.
Banjoists. These men are not as good as I had been led to expect. They make lots of noise and do a lot of hard work but the music isn’t there and they simply get by nicely today; although in an easy spot failed to make the hit credited to them in other cities. 14 min. in one, 2 shows.
Talking comedians, singers and dancers. All alleged. They have nothing whatever to recommend them and the act is decidedly bad. Their gags they told were all of ten years old, the singing was bad, and their dancing fair. 14 min. in one, three shows.
This is an act by a man who is an equilibrist and uses the dogs perched upon his head and working in other various ways with him. Very neat and clean and from the three per day standpoint is all right. 10 min. full stage, 3 shows.
In his usual style of monologue, introducing considerable new stuff. Getting on at 4:45 he not only held the audience but made his usual hit. I cannot understand why some of the other houses have so “roasted” him on this season’s offering. 20 min. in one, 2 shows.
In a melodramatic sketch called “Jockey Jones”. It looked very much, up to noon, as if we would not get this act at all. The special car that he had for his baggage having got lost somewhere between Cleveland and Providence. The baggage arrived in the house about ten minutes of one and only for the fact that I was able to work the fist one and a half hours of my show in one and two, I don’t believe we could have put it on. As it was I delayed the show twelve minutes in stating. It is rather a dangerous thing to send a big act like that from Cleveland into New England. The act lived up to its reputation entirely. Corrigan is probably as good an actor as there is in Vaudeville. The sketch is very interesting and the paraphernalia decidedly novel and show held the audience and in fact worked them up to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Corrigan got a strong call before the curtain, at the finish, although the time was very late. 21 min. full stage, 2 shows.
In a protean sketch, introducing several characters. Of course she had a tremendous reception here and highly pleased this audience. I understand the act has been improved considerably since it was in New York and in its present condition. I consider it thoroughly all right for any bill up to 8:45 in a night show. At the salary and considering that it is a very unusual style of act and done entirely in one, it seems to me to have considerable value. 16 min. 2 shows.
This is a very clever act, in a way, but the Dog seems to be very slow and as I remember that was the trouble with him when here before. It is not nearly so good as that of “Yankee & Dixie” on the same order. 15 min. in two, 3 shows.
This is a Providence girl who has had some stage experience and who is giving a little singing turn. At the price I am paying her (SR) for 3 shows and as she works in one, I consider the act of some value. She is quite good looking and makes a very neat appearance and while her voice is only passable she gets by thoroughly all right and would be all right to play at that price in an early spot on the bill. 10 min. in one, three shows.
The same act she had for us last season, songs and stories which was fairly well accepted, but would have probably have gone stronger had she not been preceded by “Ray Cox”. However, it is a good act for the money. 2 shows, 13 min. in one.
