and the woman wears a dressy gown, cut decollete.
“The Mayor of the Bowery,” as Thompson styles himself, is not over particular with subjects for humor. All are calculated to draw laughs and an impersonation of each is given with the “soda water” explosion. By careful count Mr. Thompson uses this explosion fifteen times during his act.
Head balancing
Miss Bartlett wore a pretty new dress in a pleasing manner.
The first involves a character almost identical with Miss Tilley’s curly headed schoolboy. The second and third songs carry the costuming of an English “Swell,” with the dressing of a minstrel troupe- satin waistcoast, light-colored frock coat ad trousers and silk hat. The same wig is worn.
employ that wornout bit of business involving a bet on the changing color of a light, made famous somewhere in the Middle Ages, by Weber and Fields and later employed widely by burlesque companies all over the country.
The contents of a vegetable garden are used, also the fence surrounding it.