This diving act was eleven minutes long on the full stage.
Two girls in black tights (and bare arms) do a routine of swimming and diving. The tank is announced as fifteen feet long, ten feet wide, and seven feet deep. A well-dressed man in flannels does the announcements. For the finish, an old woman runs down the aisle and claims to be the mother of one of the girls. The girl dives into the water to get away from the woman but she follows her, and jumps into the tank fully clothed. The older woman is announced as the mother of several champion divers who is a champion herself. She wear comedic underclothes which are visible under the water.
This pantomime entitled “Sesostra” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
The plot of this show is similar to Guerrero’s “Rose and the Dagger’. The setting is Egyptian. Lina Imperia, farina, and Lucy Gerard are the principals.
Prince Ludwig the lilliputian was onstage for eleven minutes.
Prince Ludwig is dressed shabbily, but has a pleasing personality. He does a xylophone solo and draws a picture with coloured crayons.
Davey is a capital
dancer. He has a first rate eccentric
routine of hard shoe stepping about midway
in the act.
The act was nine minutes long.
Adeline Francis calls herself “The Graphophone Girl” and performs with the help of her phonograph which she calls “sister.” Before she begins, she notes that the records she will play were made by recording herself in different voices. Miss Francis then begins a conversation “with” the machine, which is perfectly timed. She also sings.
Ideal is a one-woman diving act who wears a red union suit.
Fred Gerner is a high jumper who has introduced three jumping horses and a dog into his act. Three men in the company ride the horses over the jumps. Only one of the horses stumbled and knocked down a barrier, which is surprising since they do not have much space to pick up speed or land.
