Tom Kyle and Co.
This sketch entitled “A Doctored Widow” was fourteen minutes long.
The backdrop is a lounge of a steamship. Peggy Gordon (Irene H. Gurney) is a seasick widow and Bill Dunstin (Tom Kyle) is a bachelor who plays along when she mistakes him for a doctor. A “colored cabin boy called ‘Texas'” almost tells her Dunstin’s secret, but Dunstin prevents it with a pie to his face. For the finale, the widow agrees to marry the “doctor”.
Maurice Samuels and Co.
This sketch entitled “A Day at Ellis Island” was twenty-five minutes long on the full stage.
An Italian waits for his daughter and her aunt to complete the immigration process. When the Aunt states that she has no money she is sent back to Italy. His daughter can stay. While she is in a holding cell, she plays her violin and entertains the inspector and Irish attendant there.
Shaw and Bradley
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
A girl takes shelter in a cowboy’s hut on her way to a western hotel during a storm. He mistakes her for a cook he’s expecting. Comedy ensues when she attempts to cook and he shoots off his revolver to get her to hurry up. The cowboy is over six feet tall but speaks with a tenor voice.
Tom Barry and Co.
This sketch entitled “The German Invasion” was eighteen minutes long.
A young couple begins to move into the house that the man’s father bought for them. The father (played by Tom Barry) is in “Dutchman” makeup and tells the son to assert his authority over his wife. The wife overhears and begins to pack to return home to her parents. Her husband is horrified and both of them cast away the father and his meddling ways .
Wheeler Earl and Vera Curtis
The act entitled “The Girl and the Drummer” was fifteen minutes long.
The setting is the balcony room of the Hotel Belmont. A public stenographer and a “fly” drummer have an entertaining seven minute conversation. They finish with a song and dance. Another boy acts as the bellboy and sings in the finale.
Groh Brock and Co.
The act was twenty-three minutes long.
Brock and co. only attempt a sketch for a few minutes before they sing several songs as a quartet. They change costume for each number in which they perform as different nationality types.
Arnold Daly and Co.
This sketch entitled “A Comedy of Wives” was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
Arnold Daly plays a husband who talks for about twenty minutes about how his wife left him for another man. He then talks for another seven minutes about how he’ll finally be able to take a trip around the world. His wife proceeds to return to him and he realizes that his trip must be cancelled.
Ford and Hyde
This sketch entitled “At Clifton Corners” was fifteen minutes long on the full stage.
The backdrop is a painting of wheat fields and a log fence. There is a watering trough onstage. A girl enters on a bicycle and strikes up a conversation with a farmer. The farmer tells her about his experiences in New York and about his farm. For the finish, she falls into the water trough.
The Providence Players
This sketch entitled “Who is Brown?” was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
Lynn Overman plays a husband who gets in trouble with his wife for staying out all night. He insists that he was staying up all night with his sick friend Mr. Brown and gives her a fake address. The wife mails a telegram to said address and actually gets a note back from a Mr. Brown. Confusion ensues.