Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Crane
Mr. Crane plays a heroic Northern army captain.
Fred Walton and Company
His comedy is the sorty to appear to all floors. Will Archer replaces the child used in the act suprisingly well. The most noticeable difference was the way the bed sagged when “Cissy” was tucked in.
Allen and Delmain
The man plays a drunk. The comedy came from the woman, a husky giantess and the supposed wife of the inebriate, throwing the husband around the stage.
Lionel E. Lawrence
Mr. Lawrence suffered a attack of blindness last week so the act may be rough around the edges. The young women report to Lawrence in their street costumes and he put them through formations and steps. Asks a girl if he hasn’t fired her six times before. Has some comedy with the stage hands when they refuse to put up a sky border and threaten to kick him out. Alex Munroe, a tenor, sings a pretty ballad in the opening. One of the girls is allowed to do disagreeable things with her gum. That should be dropped.
Fred Wyckoff and Company
A rural piece with no author announced. Fred Wyckoff is the leading character in a sketch with no recognisable plot. Frank M. Gibbons plays a poor impersonation of a farmer. There is a girl in the sketch but it’s not know ehy she is there. A song was used to tell jokes from years ago.
William Davis and Company
Set in Kentucky. Davis plays the role of a moonshiner who beleives that his duty to his family ends with shooting at revenuse officers. Pa wants Belle-Anne to marry the man she loves but the step mother does not. Pa lets Bell-Anne run away to get married. Lack of action in the first half.
Franklyn and Eva Wallace
Mr. Wallace plays a champagne agent. Mrs. Wallace makes a poor stage decoration.
Rillie Deaves and Company
The best hit of the act is Fred Bowman’s character study of the front row enthusiast who is grey haired and old and pays to get smiles from the beauties on stage. Miss Deaves acting is forced.
Maddox and Melvin
Maddox wears comical makeup.
Fred Walton and Company
Cissie is a youngster who has crept out of bed to play with her toys after the nurse has left. She is found and put back to bed. There is a dark change to a setting of an enlarged toy cupboard where all the toys have become real.The toy soilders duel which frightens the child and causes her to cry out. The nurse wakes her and shows he the toys are in the cupboard. Mr. Walton does pantomiming, of which he is very good.