20 min. – Spec. prop in 4 – Two man and one woman, in a Japanese sketch. They carry their setting which is very pretty; and the act starts off like a large affair. However, it lags suddenly; the dialogue is very ordinary; the comedy fair. It had hard work to make good in its place on the bill.
17 min. full stage – This is a pretty good talking sketch but is in the hands of two very poor people. The girl is a very little removed above amateur and the man plays his part in a cheap melodramatic fashion, that is laughable in itself. There is practically no situations worth talking about.
12 min. in 2, close in 1 – This act is a combination of the old Hall and Staley and Prubel and Ruge acts, and for those who have never seen either of these turns it proves an attractive getting a recall after the finish. It is another of the acts that could be put in a better place if necessity required.
30 min. afternoon show, 25 at night, full stage – He made some changes in both his acts today and held the audience remarkably well. There will probably be a number of people who did not come during Lent included in our audience with week, but if it were not for that, I should consider herwas [sic] dpwn [sic] and out as an attraction beyond a fortnight engagement in Boston.
8 min. in 1 – Quite a showy singer, both in personal appearance and as to voice, and gowned in excellent taste. I was unable to hang her drop for the afternoon show and had her too low down on the bill, which decidedly militated against her chances of making good, but she did very well at that, and in an earlier place will go strong.
10 min in 1 – Pretty and graceful woman, who performs a series of physical contortion exercises that form an attractive act. She went very nicely, as has always been the case here, but our people having seen her frequently in the best part of the bill, she could not be expected to go so strong as in cities where she is.
16 min. in 1 – Blackface comedian and singer, offering a lot of new material in the matter of jokes and songs. He was somewhat handicapped by the laughs evoked by the act the preceded him, so did not provoke so much hilarity as he would under other circumstances.
22 min. full stage – Presenting for the first time here a new farce comedy, “A Very Bad Boy”, which is one of the best laugh-provoking sketches that has ever been given in this house, not only in dialogue and situation, but for the reason that it is capitally acted. Godfrey’s dancing is even funnier than Al Leach’s. It was practically a scream from start to finish.
18 min. open full stage close in 1 – This act went even better than I thought it would, in a fair place on the bill. There seems to be some novelty about it that people appreciate. They opened with an Indian scene, with a fire and tent, and Newell does a bit of juggling with a ball and sticks that is quite clever. Then Chinquilla sings two songs, one an Indian number, and the finishes is a selection by the pair, which got a great hand. The act is an excellent one at the figure.
11 min. full stage – Both these men are exceptionally good acrobats, being splendidly developed, particularly from the muscular point of view, and quite clever in their work on flying rings and trapeze. If they work straight altogether, and eliminate the alleged comedy by Reed, the act would be much stronger in my opinion.
