Kaufman Bros.
Balckface [sic] comedians who do fairly well. In one.
Conroy & LeMaire
Well-known blackface, talking pair who scored without the slightest trouble. Held them all the way through and finished moderately strong. Street in one, 17 minutes.
Corcoran & Dixon
Both work blackface, one making a change to female attire. Songs and patter fair, but the eccentric dancing got considerable laughter and applause. Closed well.
Eddie Ross
Black face comedian, singing, banjo playing and a very line of talk 10 minutes in one, went big.
Nevins and Erwood
Man and woman in blackface singing, talking and dancing act. Made very good with songs and dances, but talk could be eliminated to great advantage. Good strong finish. Street in one, 16 minutes.
AI Grossman
12 Mins. One.
Grossman is minus the right arm and makes a Charley Kenna entrance carrying a small suit case and stand. He has some dialogue about contents of suit case. “Cuba” is his first song delivered a la Jolson as are all his vocal efforts. Then Grossman blacks up, using suit case for dressing table, monologing continually the. while. He ties a four in hand tie using but one hand for the operation. “Snoops the Lawyer,” a comedy number, followed by “My Mammy’s Arms” and, “Only a Dream of the Past,” wind up his offering. He went big here and might do for the smaller.
Murphy and Barrett
Blackface Comedians.
14 Mins.t One.
58th Street
Seasoned performers, with corking coon dialects, not theatrically exaggerated but perfectly natural. They have a routine of sidewalk talk that needs considerable working out but which should eventuate into, a standard big time act. One is big, pompous, “educated” darkey, who uses a lot of big words and is continually trimming the little, illiterate meek chap.
Glen and Jenkins
… there is no doubt about the colored comics having planted themselves on the big time for “spot” appearances. The use of the “refuse” box is crude, and It’s rather surprising that it didn’t offend. But even that Is turned to comedy when one pronounces It “Rufus.” As station porters “7 and 11” they, like many colored teams, make threats against each other. Yet Glenn and Jenkins have dug up new lines of “deadly” threat. Their dancing especially the broom number, took them over to a solid hit.
LA FRANCE and JACKSON.
“Party of the First Part.”
The turn has a black face comedy talk routine, Jackson doing the manager to La France’s comedy as a near boxer. Instead of stepping as formerly in the act, Jackson has a ballad and the men duet with a popular number at the close. This number works to a good exit, the crowing of a chicken Interesting both boys. La France pulls forth a meal sack from his hip pocket. They open it and sneak for the “bird.” Some of the chatter can go out* there being sufficient comedy material to stand pruning in the mid section. Looks good for the better houses.
JOHNSON BROS and JOHNSON
12 Mins.
Two blackface end men with tambourine and the bones, and an interlocutor in white. The endmen bandy gags old and new. Both hand out a yard and a bull of those series of play on words, telling a rhymed story naming flowers.