Harry Watson & Co.
17 min in 1 and 2. Pretty tough spot following three other hokum acts on the same bill. He held them well at night show and got plenty of laughs with same material used on previous visits here.
Robert L. Dailey & Co.
In 4. Time 19. 3 women, men. Special interior trolley car. The comedy consists in the various characters getting into the car after which a series of free-for-alls are pulled off in rapid succession. This act is very noisy and has a lot of good fun in it, but mostly on slap-stick order. It’s clean and undoubtedly made good, but nothing very big in its success.
Kelly and Ashby
11 min. F.S. 2 shows. One man works straight and the other tramp comedian. The opening half drags a little bit and is inclined to be a trifle too rough. The work on the bounding billiard table is about the regulation kind, but wins good applause. The comedy is all of the slap-stick and syphon-bottle order, but got a good many laughs. Closing hand fair. A good gallery act.
Willard Simms & Co
(Edith Conrad and Edmund Gorman.) C.D.F. Time 28. Close in 1. This is a slap stick, knockabout act with Simms tumbling about the stage most of the time. But in general it is funny and had the audience screaming most of the time. There are some spots when in gets pretty raw.
Bailey & Madison
In a grotesque knock-about comedy act. This act was criticised by all the papers here as being too rough for this audience. I had some of the stuff toned down for the evening performance, when they went much better than they did in the afternoon. The act is a good one of its kind. Time, 15 minutes, including about three minutes in one.
The Three Keatons
These people get a big reception, but their act went much flatter than on previous visits, showing that the audience has had all they want of them, as they have made practically no changes to their act. Would not want them again. 25 min, open full stage, close in one.
Roberts, Hayes and Roberts
2 shows, 20 min. open full stage, close in one—Eccentric Comedy sketch by two men and a young woman, which does well enough for an early place in the bill, and in some houses would probably be considered very funny. One of the members of the team is he who was formally known as Leo La Farge, the young fellow who got his first start in this house, and then went back on us at the time of the White Rats strike. He is a very good dancer.
Fisher and Carroll
2 shows, 15 min. in one—had practically all new material and scored a bigger laughing hit then I have ever known them to do before. Of course, they had a good place on the bill, with very little laugh provoking material in advance of them, and thus had better chances.
The Three Keatons
While I cannot see this act even with binoculars the people who pay their money appear to enjoy every minute of it. Of course Buster is the act and without him it would not be worth 15 cents. At the opening performance they held the stage 30 minutes but the manager made them out 10 minutes off it at the night performance.
Martin & Quigg
Two men in a sketch which they call “The Long and the Short of It”, Martin being very tall and Quigg being practically a dward [sic]. The act is not especially strong although it went all right here, and can be called a fair act. 15 minutes in one.