In a sketch “Mrs. Delaney”. This is their second appearance this season. These young ladies are great favorites here, and this act always goes with a rush. It is a great hit for Miss Kate Elinore. Miss May sings and dances very prettily. Support very good. One of the hits of the bill. Full stage. Close in one. Time 27 minutes.
In a sketch the “Sporting Duchess”. These two people are favorites here, and the act is a laugh producer and goes extremely well, this sketch has not been played here in some years. Could not get scenery on time for their new act, the above was substituted. Full stage. Time 21 minutes.
Society Acrobats. Man and Woman, a very good opening act, dress well and make good appearance on stage, went well with audience. Stage in two. Time 9 minutes. On account of sickness this team worked only two days. Their place was taken by the Althea Twins who do singing and acrobatic dancing, a very fair act. Stage in two. Time 10 minutes.
Comment seems unnecessary, but sufficient to say that she was accorded an enthusiastic reception and after rendering four songs, the audience refused to let her go until she sand the familiar “O, Promise Me”. 12 minutes, in one.
This is a very ordinary sort of a turn, and can only be classed as fair. It furnishes a pretty good illustration of what we get usually when we undertake to get down to a low salary. I suppose that in the ordinary house the act could be classed as good, but it is so loosely put together and so sort of inferior to other acts of a similar nature that we have played that it can only be classed as fair. 10 minutes, full stage.
Man and woman in a comedy sketch, in which the man impersonates a sort of happy-go-lucky “rube”, and the woman acts as a feeder, and is a very good vocalist. The man is quite an unctuous comedian, and has a method of delivering his lines which reaches the audience every time. I have not played the act for the last two or three years on account of a bad report which I received from the Boston house, and I guess we were the losers in not doing so. 20 minutes in full stage; could close in one it required.
Colored man and woman in about the usual style of acting presented by all colored couples. So far as this house is concerned, I was agreeably disappointed in the act, for I was afraid that it was going to be mediocre, but barring a tendency on the part of the woman to a rather free display of lingerie the act was very satisfactory indeed, and the audience seemed to enjoy it well. 15 minutes in one.
Two men in an acrobatic and comedy act. The act is not changed at all since its last presentation here. When do some fairly good acrobatic work and the comedy is not at all offensive, and while the act is not, and never will be, a great one, it can still be considered acceptable considering the price we pay for it. 11 minutes, full stage.
Black face comedian in an original monologue. Case has a great deal of the same material that he has used here before, but his peculiar mannerisms and entirely original methods of delivery are always bright and fresh, and he made a distinct hit this afternoon, as he is bound to do everywhere when placed where an audience will sit and listen to him. 20 minutes in one.
The act went fully as well as last week, and, as a relief from the ordinary song and dance monologue and sketch, seems it can certainly be classed as very good. There can be no question but that the salary for this act is a big one, but the turn satisfies thoroughly, and I feel that the element of novelty makes it a very acceptable proposition. 15 minutes in full stage.
