Conroy and McFarland
15 min. in one – Two Irishmen, in a side-walk conversation. This is one of the old time variety acts, and savors a great deal of burlesque. They got some laughs, but are not very strong. We will shove them up the bill.
Harry Antrim and Yetta Peters
14 min. open in 3, close in 1 – The man in this team imitated birds, fowls, etc. but is not particularly clever. He whistles without the use of his fingers better than Louis Granat, which is the best thing in the act. The woman is simply a “feeder”, but possesses no ability, either as actress or singer. The act is good, at that, in an unimportant place.
Sully Family
20 min. full stage – A man and woman, and two small boys, make up the personnel of this act. It is supposed to be a comedy sketch, but like most of such acts in the varieties the plot was pretty difficult to discover. The man and woman do not amount to much, but the juveniles carry the act along with considerable applause and lots of laughter. From a 3-a-day standpoint, it’s good enough for opening and supper hours.
Frank Keenan and company
25 min. full stage – Presenting for the first time here a new sketch entitled “The Actor and the Count”, which is one of the best things in that line we have had for some time. Comment upon Mr. Keenan’s acting unnecessary, beyond the fact that he plays two roles, each of which is capitally done. Mr. Keenan received competent support from Misses Georgia Welles and Kate Long, the latter his wife. The sketch is dramatic, farcical, burlesque, pantomimic, musical and pathetic, by turns. They were quite nervous at the first performance, which somewhat marred it. We gave them a splendid stage setting only excelled by that of Hillard.
Chalk Sanders
10 min. in 1 – Clever and amusing performer, who gets lots of laughs and applause without straining for it. His work is simple, but the fact that it is familiar to patrons of dime museums does not necessarily make it of small value in vaudeville. It is one of the best acts that I know of for an early part in the show.
Johnson and West
13 min. open in 3, close in 1 – This was a team which I was to have given a place in the show tomorrow to try them … The woman was an understudy of Lelia McIntyre, in “Beauty and the Beast”, and the man had had some experience in the same company. Their comedy was bad and the singing not quite fair, so concluded one performance was enough to inflict on our audience.
Parker’s Dogs
This is a very clever dog act, as it always has been. On account of the two show system, I was not able to give it a good place this afternoon so that it was to a certain extent wasted, but it will have a much better place tonight. 15 minutes, full stage.
Adamini and Taylor
A man and woman in an act called “The Wandering Minstrels.” The man was formerly with the 3 Dumonts. (He is the fellow that played the guitar). The woman is Miss Louise Taylor, and she is a very good singer indeed. The man’s comedy makeup is about all there is to the act which entitles it to be called a comedy singing act, but their voices blend all right and they were very nicely received this afternoon. 11 minutes in one.
Sidonia
This is a comedy, or an alleged comedy wire performer who has stolen about all the business that he could get hold of, including Jess Dandy’s diamond gag and the growing of artificial flowers, a la Charlie Aldrich. He gets on the wire eventually and closes by riding a bicycle with a grooved wheel up and down the wire which is fairly difficult. 9 minutes, full stage.
Wesley and White
This is little Wesley who used to be with Munroe, and a woman who works with him. The act is not in especially good shape yet, and they were also palpably nervous, as I believe this is the second time they have ever done it. I have an idea that it can be whipped into shape so that it will make a fair three-show-a-day act for the present, for he is a pretty good dancer, but it will never be anything more than a fair act. 13 minutes, open full stage, and closing with short encore in one.