Sam, Clara, and Paul. This is without question the best and most thoroughly satisfying act in vaudeville today. Sam Morton is a good Irish comedian, Clara is as neat and dainty as ever she was, which is saying all that could possibly be said, and Paul is a clever dancer and a thorough painstaking artist. The act made a big hit and is bound to do it at any time and under any circumstances. The open with about 8 or 9 minutes in one, and close with a full stage. 28 minutes.
This act went very well indeed, but like the Lottie Brandon Loop it depends entirely upon the electric lights to hide the deception from the audience, and I think the majority of our people understand that fact. There is no question though, but that the race around the loop interests them and there was a very generous amount of applause at the finish. I think now as I did before seeing it that the miniature track detracts from the race in that it takes the attention of the audience to a certain extent to the exclusion of the riders; still, as a novelty, it is all right for a couple of weeks but the performer who can do the loop without the electric light to blind the audience will make a bigger hit than any other. 9 minutes, full stage. MRR.
Introducing the sketch entitled “Caesar’s Angel.” It is pretty hard work to classify these people as they always seem to fall just a little short of making a hit. It is a good act all right and built along novel lines, but some how or other it never seems to make the impression that people of their ability ought to make. Both he and his wife sing as well as they ever did, and the act seemed to please the audience all right. The act can be classed as all right. 27 minutes full stage.
Two men and one woman. This is the old team of Lavine with a man by the name of Cameron added, and is an eccentric comedy singing and dancing act. The Lavines were always good, and the man whom they have added is a very good acrobat indeed, and between the three they manage to do a turn that in full of life from the start to the finish and wins them two or three achoirs [sic]. 10 minutes in full stage.
In his old specialty the “Giddy Girl.” The act is not changed any that I can see in all the years that we have been playing it. There is something about the impersonation of an old maiden sort of a girl that always makes the women laugh, and the act can be called good. 10 minutes in one.
This is a very ordinary sort of a turn, and can only be classed as fair. It furnishes a pretty good illustration of what we get usually when we undertake to get down to a low salary. I suppose that in the ordinary house the act could be classed as good, but it is so loosely put together and so sort of inferior to other acts of a similar nature that we have played that it can only be classed as fair. 10 minutes, full stage.
Man and woman in a comedy sketch, in which the man impersonates a sort of happy-go-lucky “rube”, and the woman acts as a feeder, and is a very good vocalist. The man is quite an unctuous comedian, and has a method of delivering his lines which reaches the audience every time. I have not played the act for the last two or three years on account of a bad report which I received from the Boston house, and I guess we were the losers in not doing so. 20 minutes in full stage; could close in one it required.
Colored man and woman in about the usual style of acting presented by all colored couples. So far as this house is concerned, I was agreeably disappointed in the act, for I was afraid that it was going to be mediocre, but barring a tendency on the part of the woman to a rather free display of lingerie the act was very satisfactory indeed, and the audience seemed to enjoy it well. 15 minutes in one.
Two men in an acrobatic and comedy act. The act is not changed at all since its last presentation here. When do some fairly good acrobatic work and the comedy is not at all offensive, and while the act is not, and never will be, a great one, it can still be considered acceptable considering the price we pay for it. 11 minutes, full stage.
Black face comedian in an original monologue. Case has a great deal of the same material that he has used here before, but his peculiar mannerisms and entirely original methods of delivery are always bright and fresh, and he made a distinct hit this afternoon, as he is bound to do everywhere when placed where an audience will sit and listen to him. 20 minutes in one.
