The Little Café, an unusually good tabloid gave the bill a touch of importance closing the show very good. With Martin Lee, a Yiddish comic; Wilbur Cushman, Carrie Hawley and a dandy combination of principals and half a dozen girls, nicely costumed, the act kept things moving lively through scenes showing a side street and the interior of a café in Greenwich Village.
“Telephone Tangle” showing humorous situations arising from the difficulties encountered with phone operators with all the action taking place in phone booths and featuring Joe Bennett, scored a good comedy success.
Deland and Blair did nicely with a domestic playlet. The story is one of those in which the husband mistakenly believes his wife recreant and gradually learns better. The laughs were plentiful and hearty.
Conroy and Howard, in a mixture of the stable ingredients of vaudeville – song, chatter, dancing – got through fleeting and neatly. “Indoor Sports” a company prepared for this time to present the act which last season played on the foremost circuits, gave an uninspired performance of a vehicle that was never any too strong, and which always lacked a kick at the finish. Here it lacked a finish entirely, as the final gag was shot upstage. The four troupers need work.
“Married. 31 min. This is one of the best comedy sketches in vaudeville and, as usual, was a big laugh-winner. It is well written, full of comedy lines and situations and splendidly played. Took several curtains.
20 min. f.s.. This sketch entitled “Business in Business” went over very good although the lady in the cast is rather weak. Received lots of laughs and closed big.
“The Submarine Attack.” 14 min. One of the most novel comedy acts in vaudeville played by a man and woman. Both are clever artists and handle their lines and situations splendidly. The sketch kept the audience amused and there is a surprise finish that closed the act amid a roar of laughter and applause. This is an Al comedy sketch.
In a Comedy Sketch entitled “Christmas on the Comsteck” — Man and woman — very clever sketch; 14 min. full stage; went good.
Oliver Smith and Company in “A Touch in Time ,” a perfect comedian in a feeble sketch, failed to hold up the early pace. The laughs were scattered and the finish was well, but not enthusiastically applauded. Smith is capital as before. But the skit stalled.
Mary Marble and Co. in Maud Fulton’s four sketch, “My Home Town,” found themselves up against an almost hopeless task early on the bill and ran rather dispiritedly as a result. As played now the act seems a triffle talky and lacking in comedy touches.
