10 min. full stage—Went just as strong, if not more so, than last week. The men have now got accustomed to the circle that they race with one another, which makes it much more exciting than at the outset. Best novelty in vaudeville today.
15 min. in 1—Blackface comedian, who talks amusingly about doctors. With the afternoon audiences he did not make much of a hit until he told screamingly funny burlesques on nursery rhyme stories, which were applauded to the limit. With the regular evening audience, I think he will score a bit all through. Very good act.
12 min. in 1—Singer of the coon songs and a joke-smith, did not go very strong and came off after 8 minutes. This was due to the fact that he was closing a 5-hour show, not of lack of ability, for I think he would make good if he was put on before a fair sized audience. I notified him that he would have to make good his time or else quit, which he promised to do so.
18 min. full stage, closing in 1—It is a long time since this trio appeared here, and I do not think that either the management or the audience will shed any tears if they are absent equally as long in the future. They have a new sketch that is a night mare, but closes with the same old business of the theatre hat.
12 min. full stage—First time here for this troupe. It is composed of 3 men, 3 women, and a small boy, all working in full dress. It is better than any similar act, I saw at the Madison Square Garden last week, and all that was represented by the agent. The small boy is not the feature of the turn, as with the Athos family but the clever work of the women, creates unusual enthusiasm, there is some lively tumbling at the finish, which is about as good as I have seen for a long time. Consider the act the hit of the show.
21 min. open in 4, close in 1—Appearing in their old “Fun in a Barber Shop” act, which has decidedly lost its grip. They just manage to cover the time for which they were scheduled but their close was decidedly “frosty”, although this many have been due to the fact that they were scheduled pretty well down the bill.
17 min. full stage—Presenting for the first time here the new comedy sketch entitled, “The Editor”, which was well played and chucklingly received, but would never do for other than an early place in the bill. The piece is another twist of the old mistaken identity idea, which has been worked to death in vaudeville. Cannot, personally, from the standpoint of its reception by the audience class the sketch as better than fair.
15 min. open full stage, close in 1—Musical comedians, one working straight and the other in blackface, and their musical specialties are not above par, the hit being scored by the comedy chap, who extracts some fair melody from an arrangement of ordinary bottles.
22 min. open full stage, close in 1—This pair present a comedy and singing sketch, which they call “Doughnuts”, owing to the fact that considerable amusement is created by the use of fake and doughnuts by the man. The man makes up in eccentric fashion, and is not at all bad comedian, and they woman sing in a good voice. The act is a fair one for an early place in the bill.
This young woman proved a great surprise and a very agreeable one. In the afternoon her act went immensely second only to that of Mansfield and Wilburt. She had a very hard place on the night show but went exceedingly well nevertheless. 15 min. In one.
