2 shows, 15 min. in 1. Irish dialect comedians, singers and dancers. These men are going behind and their proper value would be about GHR and three shows. They did fairly well in the place but the show ahead of them is so fast that they are unable to keep up the pace.
YRR 2. The best comedy quartette in every way that we have ever played. There is but one comedian in the outfit, and he makes up as a neatly dressed Jew, after the order of Joe Welch – only better dressed. He sings some Jew parodies that are ahead of anything that Jess Dandy ever offered and their quartette singing is exceptionally good. It will be a decided acquisition to any vaudeville bill. 22 minutes in one.
Very acceptable German dialect comedians. All in one. But we played them full stage.
2 shows, 12 min. in one—In a difficult place in the bill he went fairly well, but not so much as the newness and brightness of his material warranted. For some reason he has been falling off in popularity with the audiences here, and will be put on at an earlier hour for the balance of the week. Personally, I think he is an exceptionally clever man, but the people who pay their money do not seem to agree with me in that conclusion.
2 shows, 16 min. open in two close in one-This favorite old German comedian went much better than I expected him to do, for he kept them laughing most all the way through his act, and made a decided hit with his bit of burlesque piano playing… His recitation at the close was a bit tame, but the act, as a whole, can be classed as good. Williams was substituted for Montrell, the juggler, and was not the act for that part of the bill, although that was not his fault, nor Mr. Hodgdon’s.
YHR 2. In Hebrew, Irish, Yanke, and negro stories, and his act was a scream from start to finish, as it always is in this house. 19 minutes in one.
2 shows, 15 min. in one. German dialect comedians and parody singers. Have improved greatly since I saw them last, and think they have grown to be the best in the business, excelling Raymond and Caverly. Their jokes were great, exciting screams of laughter all over the house. The laughing hit of the show.
Good Hebrew comedians and the best of the work is their parodies. All in one.
2 shows, 15 min. in one—I must confess Ransone was somewhat of a disappointment, although he may go better in the evening shows than he did this afternoon. His dialect and material did not seem half so funny as when heard in the “Prince of Pilsen”, and it is another instance of how one may be deceived in the value of a bit of character work when seen under the advantageous surroundings of a good show that plays up to it all the time. At that, he will probably be worth what we are paying for it, as our expectations of the act were undoubtedly placed a little too high.
2 shows, 16 min. in one—This team went about the same as always, but a good line of acts such as theirs cannot be got with the afternoon audience, as they are practically “night entertainers.” Practically all their stuff was old, the same as they have been doing for a couple of seasons, and their songs were ditto. They can no longer hold the place in the fill that they formerly did.
