Checkers Bon Hampton and “Sunbeam Girls”
Terry and Lambert
Murray and Linn
Dooin and McCool
Four Mortons
Nellie Wallace
Lander and Allen
One man works in blackface. They pull
a couple of chairs to the center of the
stage and interchange a line of talk which
contains some new stuff, and nothing very
old.
May Yohe
William Burr and Daphne Hope
This act entitled “A Lady, A Lover and a Lamp” was thirteen minutes long.
The act opens with Burr sitting at a white enamel table smoking a cigarette and Hope (a comedy blonde) singing behind the drapery. There is a red fringe lamp above the table. They banter, he sings a solo about wanting to marry her despite her frequent refusals, and then they sing a duet. For the finale, Burr runs out the door to commit suicide with a revolver. When Hope screams for him not to do it and that she will marry him, a gunshot is heard offstage. Burr then runs back inside, takes Hope into his arms and says “I missed.” The lamp went goes out at the end and is replaced by a spotlight.