Ed. Latell
Blackface musical comedian. Always a favorite in this house, and he went this afternoon as strong as ever. 25 mins. In 1.
Ryan & Richfield
in “Mag Haggerty’s Father”. Went stronger this afternoon than it ever went before in this house. The audience fairly screamed at some of the situations. 28 minutes; full stage.
Clarice Vance
Coon songs. She had three new songs and one old one, and it goes without saying that she made the same impression here that she always does, which is very good. 11 minutes, in one.
Fred Hallen & Mollie Fuller
Representing Geo. M. Cohen’s latest sketch “Election Bets,” which I consider the best thing Hallen has ever done in vaudeville. The situations are funny and the theme appeals to everybody who is interested in elections. The act went very strong from start to finish. 20 minutes; full stage.
Clarence E. Billings
this is a young club entertainer from Boston, who was recommended to me very strongly by Will M. Cressy. There is no mistake about it, he has got a lot of bright original stuff and knows how to tell it, and during the first part of his act he had the audience laughing about as hard as I have ever heard them in this house, at [sic] a monologue performer. Everything he does is original, and he has three bright new songs evidently written by himself, which are both brilliant and catchy. He was handicapped terribly this afternoon by his nervousness, which was only natural, as this is his first vaudeville engagement; and he is still further handicapped by his finish, which while not bad does not keep up to the standard maintained during the first two-thirds of the act. There is no question but what he is going to make a valuable performer. He works in Yankee make-up and has the Yankee dialect perfect. 16 minutes in one.
Sailor & Barbaretto
man and woman in a singing turn, the woman appearing first singing “The Maid of Dundee”, the man following with a straight song, and then the woman appears in pyjamas and they sing the pyjama song together. They are both very good singers and while the act went all right I don’t think it caught on as well as it did in the other two houses. Can be called a good singing turn, however. 14 mins. In I.
Lew Simmons & Frank White
in their old act “Get on the Band Wagon”. The only one that I have ever seen them do which amounts to anything. They had a new one but I don’t like it as well as the old act, which always goes well here, and this afternoon was no exception to the rule. 19 minutes; full stage.
Pauline Saxon
character songs and impersonations. A young girl who appears first in a little impersonation called “Sis Perkins” it being after the “Sis Hopkins” type in pretty well done. Makes change and does a straight song and finishes with a scare-crow dance. Not an important act by any means, but still very acceptable considering the scarcity of good turns in one. 8 minutes, in one.
The Lucados
Equilibrists and balancers: man and woman. They are young people and do a very clever clean cut act. The man of course, does the greater part of the work. He balances chairs, tables and etc. and also does some work with a heavy cart wheel, the closing feature of their tricks being the balancing of a bicycle on a bar which he holds in his teeth while the woman is sitting astride of it working the peddles [sic]. Very good act. 11 minutes, full stage.
Howley & Leslie
these people are always good here. They are both excellent dancers and the woman does a really clever bit of character work in her child impersonations. 15 min. opens full stage; close in 1