Presenting the playlet “The Counsel for the Defense.” These performers are too well known to require either praise or criticism suffice it to say that they are painstaking artists of the first order who never fail to score big. 33 minutes full stage.
In addition to his regular exhibition, of strength and display of his muscles, Sandow at the matinees, gives a lecture on physical culture illustrating by two subjects, “before and after taking”. His talk has an element of comedy and proved very interesting. Carries his own set. 35 minutes, full stage.
Opens with a recitation and then does her familiar cabinet act with the dolls all of which is very entertaining and pleases the audience very much. 20 minutes, full stage.
14 min. in 1 – This is a Hungarian violinist who played here a few weeks ago when she scored a hit. Being short of show, and the girl having lost her father and needing money, I put her in to fill out the time. She is an artiste and should be booked on the circuit at convenience.
17 min. open in 3, close in 1 – Ventriloquil comedian, with an attractive stage setting that he carries himself, and a wonderful lot of mechanical figures. As a ventriloquist he is no better and no worse than many others, and as a comedian he falls away behind, as most of his material have been gathered from old almanacs, and some of it stolen.
11 min. full stage – Drapery dancer, who works on the same lines as Papinta, but can never catch up to the latter. She does some posing, with color and pictures, seen through a transparent mirror, which is too heavily smoked to let the pictures appear as clear as they should be. Only worth about half the salary here.
12 min. full stage – This man does some artistic clay modeling and finishes by making a crayon drawing, during which he tells amusing stories. He is all right in a midplace in the bill here, created lots of laughter and got hearty rounds of applause for his clever drawings.
15 min. full stage – This is a novelty musical act, all the instruments being played by the man, who also contributes some original equilibristic stunts. The woman does some singing and a bit of dancing, but is not particularly clever. Whole act only fair.
15 min. full stage (can open in 1 if necessary) – Pierre Young’s rendition of “Beneath the Shade of the Shelting Palms” although not very good, as he has a chorus voice and is not a soloist, was encored on the merits of the song itself. The “8.00 A.M. Duett”, by Nace Bonville and Emily Griffiths, was encored two or three times, as it deserved to be, for they sing well and dance with life and spirit, the two young men being particularly good. The double sextet was obliged to respond to a half dozen encores, and apparently did just as well as if it were not full of “ringers”. The men are superior singers to the women, and I very much doubt if any of the latter ever appeared in anything better than the second of third companies… Three at least of the men in the chorus were in the second company when I saw it at the Colonial. Still with all these drawbacks, I think they act will make good for salary.
11 min. full stage – The same act she has been giving for several seasons, balancing on a revolving globe, while juggling various small articles, and finishes with extension draperies, which have picture and color effects thrown on them. The little Jap who assists her does some very good tumbling. Good act.
