Wheeler Trio
7 min. f.s.. Three men in an exceptional acrobatic act; made very good opening.
Harris and Harris
Harris and Harris, two men to sport costumes, performed some nifty hand-to-hand balancing, but are not strong enough to close big-time bills and the audience took advantage of this.
Consueda and La Veda
[New Act] Trapeze, 6 mins.; full stage. Opening the show the first half, the man and woman in white acrobatic costume seemed amateurish, also foreigners. The man went through a simple routine on a single bar, with the stage showing up a skimpy apparatus while the woman assisted in a way at one time interpolating a Spanish dance without just cause.
Nat Navarro and Co.
Then came Nat Navarro and Co. – or rather Buck and Bubbles, the sub-billed amber pair of precocious youngsters. What Buck couldn’t accomplish with improvised piano picking and gum masticating. Bubbles finished with his stepping, and between the pair they panicked the house. For the rest Nat Nazarro performed several acrobatic feats with a midget sort of topmounter.
Sansone and Delila
Sansone and Delila, opening have an interesting routine of equilibristic feats with many novel angles and, for an eight-minute turn, deliver value. The man of the act should by all means devise some sort of substitute for the Tuxedo or sack coat worn at the opening over his gym shirt and white flannel trousers. The nondescript combination is all out of order. The woman dresses neatly and both members of the partnership work with good acrobatic style. This was No. 1 without comedy.
The Palderns
The Palderns, two girls and a man, ended the frolic by some up-to-date hand-to-hand and head-to-head tricks, finishing with a risley stunt with the assistance of an aeroplane, not having one walkout go on the books against them.
Rose Sheldon and Brother
Rose Sheldon and Brother started it with some nifty hand-to-hand and head-to-head balancing, with a little loop and bail juggling intermixed while accomplishing the stunts, all of these getting solid hands. The man wears a sport suit and the woman wears a dainty blue costume, and they work together with ease, setting this turn out as an opener for the two-a-day.
Florette
Florette, opening the show, received well merited applause for clever routine of acrobatics and contortion. Although her act is rather short, it is interesting throughout, the feature being the manner in which she effects what appears to be a complete dislocation of the neck.
Hurio
[New Act] Gymnast, 10 mins; full stage (special hangings). Hurio is a classy gymnast of exceptional strength. He works off the floor entirely, using a high pedestal as a starting point. Upon the pedestal at first he does a posing. Hanging close to the stand is a single ring upon which he performs his first gymnastic exhibition.
Some distance down stage hang a pair of regulation rings. Hurio leaps from his pedestal to them. The stunt is pretty and it looks a lot easier than it is. He drops to the floor several times but always reaches the rings from the pedestals. Heavily musculated, neat in appearance and performance, Hurio adds something by dressing his act with velvet hangings. Good opening turn.
Felix and Fischer
[New Act] Horizontal bars, 7 mins; full stage. Featuring a full loop from the third bar placed higher than the others and done on a trapeze swung from it, worked up similar to five stand tables bit, the innovation as “invented” by Felix fails to be novel enough to pull the act up above an ordinary opener for the thrice daily.
Assisted by a woman whose one contribution is a bit of rope skipping, the male half of the turn does the swings on the remaining two bars, interspersed with some talk that was hardly distinguishable and relying on the eating of candles for comedy.