GRR 3 – This is an act by two men and a woman, the men both being German comedians. The sketch was put on here at a rehearsal two or three weeks ago, and was recommended to me as being an exceptionally funny act. There is no question but what they did get a lot of laughs this afternoon, but it is certainly about as crude an affair as I ever saw in my life. The dialect of the men is pretty good, and there are two or three funny lines, but the thing has been loosely put together and is not at all suited for us yet. Owing to the tremendous scarcity of acts I have moved it further up the bill, cutting off five minutes, but it wont do for the rest of the circuit. 20 minutes, full stage.
GHR – In an Irish comedy act. I played Mr. Leonard here this week because my arrangements with him were for a New York appearance, the balance of the circuit to depend upon his success here. So as a matter of justice I had to let him go to New York this week. I thoroughly agree with the Boston criticism that the act is not very strong. I suppose he went a little better here than he did in Boston, but it is not a particularly heavy act at that. 13 minutes in one.
NH – Hebrew comedians. This is the usual style of Hebrew talking acts and for an early part of the bill will do no harm at all, neither will it make a big hit. It is simply a fair act. 12 minutes in one. NH.
GRR. Two men in a German comedy talking act. They are not nearly as good as the old team of Carlin and Brown, but they please fairy well and by good, hard work their bar-room scene managed to finish up very acceptably indeed. 15 minutes in one.
Two men in a German comedy talking act. While these people went quite good this afternoon, it is my personal opinion that they have deteriorated considerably. They do about the same sort of an act that they did they last time they were here, but seemed to lack animation. They did please the audience, however, and I suppose that overs a multitude of evils. 12 minutes in one.
Irish comedian. He does a talking act which is modelled after that of the late J.W. Kelly. He has a good act and it went very nicely on the circuit before. He had a hard place on the bill this afternoon, practically closing the show, but he made good all right with a dull audience, and I think will go very much stronger to night. 15 minutes in one.
Two men in an Irish comedy talking act. They have a bit of novelty in their entrance, coming on with an automobile. They do the regulation conversational act and close with bagpipe playing and dancing. From a three-show-a-day standpoint it is a good act. 16 minutes, open full stage and close in one.
Irish comedian and vocalist. He appears without any makeup at all, and does two or three very good songs and tells half a dozen “gags”, some of them old, and some of them new. I think if it had not been for the intense heat this afternoon, he would have made quite a good impression; as it was, he got around all right and can be considered a fair act from the three-show-a-day standpoint. 11 minutes in one.
A man and a young woman in a German comedy sketch in which the man plays the burglar. It is probably about as old an act as there is in vaudeville, but somehow it always seems to go fairly well, and this afternoon was no exception to the rule. 19 minutes, full stage.
A couple of men in a Hebrew comedy talking and singing act. They had a pretty difficult place on the bill following Howard and Burke and Gallagher and Barrett, and while they did pretty well, they did not make much of an impression until they came to the close of their act where they do a Hebrew “cake-walk”, which sent them off in great style. I shall change them to night in the place of Howard and Burke, where I think they will do a very good turn. 12 minutes in one.
