Man and woman juggling act which is fairly good from a three-a-day standpoint. They look neat and do their work cleanly, were they first or second on the bill they would be all right but hardly strong enough for 4th place which I was obliged to give them as they are better than the preceeding [sic] acts. 10 min, full stage, 3 shows.
A man and a woman in a comedy juggling act. They do a very good act indeed from an early-in-the-bill standpoint. All jugglers that I have ever known from the highest to the lowest have their off-days, and these people had one today, but any one could see that the tricks they do are entirely within their reach when they are in their normal condition, and they made a very favorable impression, and it is entirely safe to say that it is a good act. 13 min, full stage. Can close in one if necessary.
Garden 3, 13 min, 3 shows. Comedy club juggling act, 3 men, two rubes, one in tennis makeup. Rube make up is all right and good scouring will help the tennis suit to look the part. Their club work is very clever but the feature of the act, which ought to go much better than it does and could be developed into quite a strong part of the act, is the hat throwing. The act did fairly well here though the work of the men deserve better than it got. Played the circuit, I think, and I would call it all right for any of the houses.
Garden 3, 18 min, 3 shows. Juggler whose act in general in familiar to all the other houses, but he has some new billiard ball stuff with a mechanical hat that was new to me and apparently also to the audience for it got them very strongly. I think he is doing a better act in general than he did formerly as he seemed to have gotten over the habit of dropping stuff.
Full stage, 15 min, 2 shows. These people brought along a new set evidently supplied by the Uneeda Biscuit Co., and given over entirely to the advertising of that product. They did their usual juggling and plate smashing act, which went with screams in the new house, but did not touch them nearly so well here. The act was half over before they got on to Arthur as a comedian. The act went well but not so big as it did at the other house.
I presume he does what is called his new act, but cannot notice any material change in it. Just as good as the old act and his peculiar mannerisms rather appeal to our audience. Opens in one, then two and closes in one.
Kid juggler. Wood in 4, 15 min, 5 min in one. A fair juggling act, helped along by the rapid fire talk with which the young man accompanies it. His fruit-fork-catching act to-day was a farce, he catching but one apple of all that were thrown at him but some were thrown so swiftly that it served to put the audience in unusually good humor and carried him off to a big hand, which was somewhat deadened, however, by the necessity of having him do some work in one. He, however, did some fairly clever acrobatic work and earned a fair hand for this. 3 shows.
Comedy juggling act. Bedini is a very graceful and skillful juggler and his partner Arthur is one of the finest little black-face comedians in Vaudeville. Their act went with a scream from start to finish and was one of the hits of the bill. 12 min, full stage and about 5 min in one, making 17 in all. 2 shows.
Juggler and [illegible, “balancer?”] As this set was described very recently by Mr. Hodgdon, I need not go into detail further than to say he made good thoroughly and to my mind, his act was as good as any of its kind that we have ever played, especially because of the novelty manner of presentation. 14 min. full stage, 2 shows
