Arthur Hopkins Co.
This sketch entitled “Hazel Weston Or ‘More sinned Against Than Usual'” was forty-five minutes long on the full stage.
May Malloy plays Hazel Weston, who transforms from a wart doctor in one town to a postmistress of another. She is accused of stealing four postcards by Luke Prentice (Erville Alderson), much to the dismay of his son (Ernest Leonard), her lover. The villain, Flugeon Smith (W.H. Forris) is followed around by a violin player, who punctuates his lines with music. Dick Lynch plays the Sheriff who does several illustrated songs between acts. “Ludicrous sketches” on the sheet illustrated his songs.
Graham Moffat Players
This sketch entitled “The Concealed Bed” was thirty minutes long on the full stage.
This sketch is about a Scottish man and woman who are to be married. The company is made up of Scottish actors. The man has promised the woman that he will join the “Teetotalers”, but goes out for a night of drinking with the woman’s brother. When the woman and her mother come back the next day, they find her brother sleeping and her betrothed sleeping in a bed concealed in a closet. More comedy is injected into the sketch by the inclusion of a gossiping woman, who knows everything about everyone in the tenement. She is evicted by the end.
Chantrell, Schuyler, and Green
This travesty sketch was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Two tramps stumble onto a “private theatrical” thrown by a society woman at her home and are put to work. “All three go through a burlesque scene from ‘Nero,’ made of up a series of old ‘gags'”. The finale is a grand opera burlesque.
Edward Abeles and Co.
This sketch entitled “Waiting at the Church” was thirty one minutes long on the full stage.
The sketch opens on a simple and attractive interior setting. A Chinese servant is pouring his employer a drink after a long night out. A irate family of the bride enters, and it appears that the man has forgotten it is his wedding day. They do everything they can to get him moving, but to no avail. They eventually succeed because the bride assures him that she does not love anyone else.
Ryan and Richfield
Val Trainor and Myrtle Dale
Tom Lewis and Co.
This sketch entitled “The Man From the Metropole” was nineteen minutes long.
Tom Lewis plays a former waiter at the Metropole who has been engaged to work in a private household. Both the husband and wife of said household (played by Burrell Barbaretto and Bessie Skeer respectively) have had embarrassing episodes which occurred at the Metropole, so they each try to flatter him into silence. They then find out he actually knows nothing about either of them. The sketch ends with Lewis putting on his hat and walking out.
Tiffany McLellan Co.
This mistaken-identity sketch entitled “After the Honeymoon” was twenty-one minutes long.
Newlyweds fight over the arrival of their relatives. Her sister (a burlesque queen) and his brother (“a race-track hick”) are married.
Harris and Miller
This sketch was thirteen minutes long on an interior setting.
A young widow calls a detective agency to find her a husband with beautiful eyes. When she meets a janitor, she mistakes him for her marriage candidate.