This sketch entitled “Mr. Hamilton of New York” was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
A young woman named Olga Petrovich (played by Eleanor Parker) lives in Moscow. Her brother offends a Major in the Russian Hussars and is challenged to a duel to the death. The brother escapes. The Major then comes to Olga and offers to forget the offense if she marries him. She refuses. Mr. Hamilton (Ralph Stuart) from New York inexplicably arrives, falls in love with Olga, and offers to fight her brother’s duel for her because he looks like him. The duel takes place offstage and Hamilton is the winner.
This sketch adapted from the work of Charles Dickens entitled “The Cricket on the Hearth” was twenty-five minutes long on the full stage.
The plot follows the original Dickens work, with the characters of Caleb Plummer (played by Thomas Jefferson) the toy-maker and Tackleton (played by Walter Colligan) included.
The Dare Brothers opened the show with an ordinary routine of well-timed acrobatics.
Harry Puck and Mabelle Lewis sing and dance. They do a dancing finale.
The act was twelve minutes long.
Two good looking girls play the piano and the violin. The pianist begins with a medley of popular song choruses and the violinist has some solos. The pianist then does some more rag numbers.
This “old-fashioned quartet” sang several songs as they did some slapstick comedy. One of the men wields a huge club and the straight man kicks the comedian’s stomach.
This comedy-drama entitled “Taken on Credit” was twenty eight minutes long on the full stage.
The plot (written by Edward Peple) revolves around a grocer who notices items disappearing from his store. He enlists the help of a policeman, who discovers that it is his own daughter whom he abandoned years ago stealing to feed her sick mother. The policeman pays the grocer for what his daughter stole, and goes back with her to see the woman he abandoned. Mabel Taliaferro plays the thief/daughter and Thomas Carrigan plays the policeman/father. Joseph Greene plays the grocer.
