Sanberg and Meeker
This travesty sketch was nineteen minutes long.
Two men are dressed as campers and engage in cross-fire comedy. They also sing a medley of “old-time” songs.
Earle Wilson and Co.
The act was eighteen minutes long.
Earle Wilson an Co. talk, sing, and dance. The woman plays an “eccentric character” who meets with a vaudeville agent to try and get a spot in a show. A young man sings “Ragtime Violin” and dances.
W.H. Lytell and Co.
The sketch entitled “An All Night Session” was fourteen minutes long on the full stage.
William H. Lytell’s first foray into vaudeville has him acting as a father who pretends to be involved with the Masons. He shows his daughter Mabel’s (Catherine Husslam) husband (played by John McMahon) how to pretend to be a mason in order to stay out late playing poker without a scolding.
Tom Barry and Co.
The act was twenty minutes long.
Tom Barry plays a messenger boy who has a dream about his idolized boy-detective hero, Nick Carter. In the dream, Nick Carter is defeated and Barry’s character “denounces dime novels forever.”
Earnest Carr and Co.
This sketch entitled “The Grafter” was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
“The Grafter” is now in Chicago after a long run in the mid-west. It is a “slang comedy” in which Ernest Carr plays a dishonest politician. His niece falls in love with a young man who he soon finds stealing the family silverware.
Cameron and Flanagan
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry
The couple performed a sketch called “The Rube” which ran for twenty-eight minutes.
Jimmie Barry plays a country yokel who arrives at the stage door of Daizie Dazzleman (Mrs. Barry). He bets his friend Si Terwilliger that he can get a kiss from the starlet, which he does. The audience begins to feel sorry for Jimmie Barry’s character, who seems to fall in love with the married Daizie. He asks for one last kiss, which he again receives. Si bursts through the stage door and hands Barry’s character money exclaiming “You win, Zeke!”
Weston, Fields and Carroll
This rathskeller act included a little piano-playing boy wonder who has a talent for comedy.
Rogers and McIntosh
The act was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
The sketch is about a wife who waits up for her husband to get home after a night of debauchery. She pretends that he is invisible and at one point removes a month from the calendar to make him think he’s been gone much longer than he has.