Barnon’s Circus
15 Mins.; Full. Barnon has four cats, a like number of dogs and two ponies. He has enough animals to work out a nice little act for small time. It is an act that will please a kid audience.
Spiegel and Jones
13 Mins.; One. Two boys, in black face, singing and talking. Will do nicely on any small time bill. At the Union Square they were the hit of the bill, through the program being shy on comedy and they being the one act that had any kind of material that got over. One of the boys is a wounded soldier while the other is doing a female impersonation as a Red Cross nurse. Some clever talk at the opening and three songs.
Sawyer and Tanner
13 Mins.; Curtained Easel. The man does the painting. The woman, wearing wigs correspond with type of nationality drawn, inserts her head in opening in frame. Each figure head offered is preceded by an announcement by artist. At the finish, the woman comes down front and sings while a man’s head appears in the easel opening, a comedy picture being the result. Proved a novelty at the Union Square Sunday.
Dorothy Hunter and Jack McEnness
12 Mins.; Three (Interior). If this pair has displayed their dancing wares a year ago they might have started something. It looks now as though the pardon come too late. The Fox Trot was the closer and the best of the lot. The team let loose here and the woman actually smiled, thereby relieving the mechanical animation of the preceding numbers. The dancers work very well together.
“The Law and the Man” Co.
14 Mins.; Three. Strong play for melodramatic thrill. Miner escapes from prison where he was doing a life term for murder. He gets with Bud, a friend, who tells him to beat it to the Mexican border. Jim from Death Valley ays “No.” He wants a song, a smile from a woman’s lips and a moment’s dream of what a life might have been. Jim gets it and with it the sheriff’s hand shackles. But Jim puts one over and makes the officer captive. As he starts with him for the border, General Creighton, whose daughter loves Jim (none other than Harry Wayne who killed one Trenton, crazed with a drink, who threatened a woman’s life and reputation), says the Gov of California is an old friend of his and that Jim should write the General to get the boy a pardon. There’s a vaudeville thriller for you. Fine pickings for the novel reading kids.
Fred B. Hall
11 Mins.; One. Imitations are best listed in Fred B. Hall’s inventory. Good whistler. He is in serio-comic makeup, with a decidedly German accent. A lot of fol de rol which foregin music hall “singles” revel in. For small time this monkeyshine making will hit, but Hall in trying to get higher and best continue his attention to a whistling-imitation single. Some of his imitations were off color and some very good.
Clafflin Sisters
10 Mins.; Two. The Clafflin Sisters are the usual small time sister act. Some of the songs are very old and not put over to advantage. One sister does fairly well with an Irish number.
Rush Ling Toy
With two men and a woman as assistants, presenting a fast illusion specialty that will create some talk. The novelty about this fellow is the quickness in which he presents his illusions, which are all good and cleverly executed. While he did not receive any great amount of applause for any one stunt, he was given a rousing hand on his finish, with several curtain calls. Ten minutes, full stage, own set.
Tom Nawn and Company
Presenting his well known comedy called “Pat and the Genie” which scored the first real laugh of the show. The skit is practically the same as of old, with a few additional lines. It is nicely presented and was given a rousing hand on the finish. Twenty-four minutes, full stage.
Henry Horton and Company
Giving us the well known comedy “Uncle Lem’s Dilemma.” Rather tame on the opening, but developed into a pleasing skit, although it did not go as well as anticipated. I’m afraid the game at present its entirely too strong for an old time offering of this character. Twenty-one minutes, open in one four minutes.