The Kiddies Burglar
Sketch made up of singing and dancing and musical. Using banjo violin. Three children and man and woman. A very good offering all showing a lot of talent. 15 min. F. Stage. Went good.
Connelly & Webb
Man and woman, in the same old act, “A Stormy Finish”. Great favorites here. Connelly’s piano-playing is a big hit. Great finish, and act went big.
Burnham & Irwin
16 min. Man and woman in a “Song Sketch at the Piano.” Man is a very clever comedian and the woman a clever helper in getting some first-class comedy talk over the footlights. They contributed a couple of songs with the woman at the piano. Act scored a hit.
Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Voelker
26 min. This is an elaborated [sic] musical offering of what Mr. and Mrs. Voelker formerly used in vaudeville, a little playlet being written around their instrumental music. There are bits of singing and dancing, and although the talk is a little bit draggy, the sketch is a very pleasing high-class musical act which will please any audience where good music is appreciated. It is finished to a good hand.
Melnotte Twins and the Waldorf Boys
In a musical comedy skit, “All Twins.” Scene represents a hotel corridor. It does not seem fair to severely criticise this number, while they are going well, and improvement is noticeable at every performance. The girls are pretty, nicely costumed, with good voices. The musical numbers are bright, with good dialogues. The act is bound to improve. 26 minutes.
Florence Roberts & Co
Sketch “The Woman Intervenes.” 22 minutes fancy in 3. Three men and Miss Roberts. A purely conversational playlet, high class in every respect and showing Miss Roberts as a real mistress of emotions. There is a fine under-current of humor, quick pointed pathos and all in all the playlet has strength. No one in Cleveland seems to have ever heard of this lady before and therefore the act as a headliner is absolutely no drawing card. (Open)
Chretienne & Louisette
22 minutes. Opening in One, with a six minutes picture, then to full stage, with an olio drop in One at the end of each song of Miss Chretienne. The moving pictures show Chretienne, the father, and Louisette, the daughter, on a street in their native village in Holland. She is dancing and he is playing the accordion. A theatrical manager joins the crowd of onlookers, and then induces the girl to come to America to go on stage. The father objects. The girl runs away, and he follows. There is an exciting chase though Holland and Germany. The picture ends when the steamer lands in New York with both father and daughter. The picture produces a lot of laughter, and prepares the audience for the real act. Chretienne and Louisette, at the end of the picture, rush down the aisle from the rear of the theatre and on to the stage. After a short colloquy Chretienne goes into the orchestra pit and leads the orchestra, while Miss Louisette sings Italian, Spanish, French and English songs, with a pretty costume for each song. While she is changing her costumes, Chretienne, form the orchestra pit, repeats each song. He also characterizes orchestra conductors of various personalities. For the finish Chretienne returns to the stage, and they sing a duet in Dutch costumes, and, for an encore, sing another duet and do an eccentric wooden shoe dance. Both are good singers. The girl’s costumes are very pretty. The whole act is a novelty, and one surprise follows another throughout. It is a good act, and was well received, the applause throughout being very liberal.
Marion Garson & Co.
3 men, 1 woman. Time 22 C.D.F. “The Belle of Seville.” This is a mixture of drama and musical comedy. Only mildly interesting in plot, which is very conventional. Miss Garson is charming and sings well. One of her men also has a fine voice. The third is no good and the fourth bellows and strikes more flat tones than I believed it possible for the human voice to do. A bright little dancing number toward the close wins a good hand. Miss Garson alone “in one” would be better I think.
College Life
32 min. full stage. Own set. A big pretentious offering with plenty of life, action and good singing. Satisfied all, and closed to six curtain calls.
Lewis & Haar Co.
Time 22. 2 men, 1 woman. F.S. attractive special exterior. Baring [sic] a certain pleasing case of presentation, this act is below standard. They give a little musical sketch impersonating shiftless Southern negroes. Their singing and dancing is poor, and sour notes are frequent in their instrumental work. The act is far too long for the material they have.