This farcical sketch was twenty-four minutes long.
Three women and three men who are all good looking play a farce with many entrances and exits. At one point in the sketch, the men drink poison one at a time. It is soon revealed to be a sleeping powder administered by the women, rather than a deadly poison.
The act was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
Mrs. Robson and company perform a farce in which Mrs. Robson plays a big wife who “bullyraggs” her husband. One scene is a direct duplicate of Charles Bigelow and Eva Davenport’s “Papa’s Wife” from a deacde earlier.
This satirical sketch entitled “In 1999” by William C. de Mille was eighteen minutes long.
The sketch is set in the year 1999, where the “current conditions of the home” are reversed, and a woman earns the household wage while her husband stays at home. Florence Nash plays the masculine wife, who “brutally” leaves her husband (played by Joseph Jefferson) alone knitting baby clothes at night.
This is a two person sketch entitled “He Tried to Be Nice.”
The act was twenty minutes long on the full stage.
The company presents a comedy sketch with a consistent story.
The man play a “rube” and the woman plays “a likely looking soubret.”
This sketch entitled “Holding a Husband” was eighteen minutes long.
The sketch stars Mrs. Louis (Alphie) James, who plays a woman with a flighty husband. He immediately begins to fall in love with her best friend. She succeeds in making him forget her friend, which prompts him to “inelegantly” exclaim, “To hell with Carolyn.”
The act was twenty-three minutes long on the full stage.
Miss Chaloner uses May Tully’s sketch called “Stop, Look, and Listen.” She does not, however, repeat Tully’s imitations and chooses instead to perform a travesty recitation of “The Other One was Booth.”
She is joined by another girl who plays a “bucolic stage-struck child” well.
