Strangely, these girls didn’t get much applause, although personally I think it a very strong act., although I am in doubt as to the advisability of playing them three weeks in each of the other houses. I am very glad I have them for only one week here. It certainly is a great novelty and is bound to set people talking and will draw money surely for a week. 23 min. full stage. Two shows.
These fellows do a very clever vocal comedy act with a school-room scene but it is rather coarse and I am a little apprehensive as to just how our regular audience will accept it. With the holiday crowd they were about the hit of the show. They open in 2 close in one. 25 min. 3 shows. It must be classed as a good act.
Musical comedy act. This act was a great surprise for in it we found a woman who is actually funny, most as much so as the comedienne of the Elinor Sisters. She makes up as an eccentric country girl and has a very funny line of talk, and the novelty of the woman doing the comedy and the man, the straight work is very acceptable. The musical portions of the act is very fair especially the electric bells, which made a hit. The act is good enough to go in almost any part of the bill. 23 min. 3 min. in one, three shows.
This is an act that is rather hard to describe as it is a sort of non-descript by three men and two women. The act is pantomimic throughout and exceedingly laughable. A great many of the situations are so entirely unexpected that is keeps the audience closely attentative [sic] from the start to the finish. There is quite a lot of trick apparatus used in the act, and one of the young men does a turn of juggling, during which he succeeds in keeping nine balls in the air—something which, I think, has never been done before in this country. It is a clever act and closes the bill with a howl. 25 minutes, full stage.
MHR – Nirvana and her thoroughbred trained stallion in a series of tableaus that are about all reproductions of well-known paintings. The horse is really a beautiful animal and the posing required is really extraordinary. The woman is quite pretty and of fairly good form, and, while the act did not call for a great amount of applause during its presentation, it got a tremendous hand at its close, and I think will be an exceedingly attractive novelty for the circuit. The scenery used is just a little bit worn and shabby, and the act is not presented quite as well as it might be. However, I am inclined to think that it is a turn which will be more thoroughly appreciated by the evening audience than that of the afternoon. 12 minutes, full stage.
GHR 2 – A man and a woman in a comedy sketch entitled “Who is your Wife?”, which is founded on the familiar motif of mistaken identity, but tells a story which is entirely different from anything I have ever seen. They are both legitimate actors and make good to the fullest extent. The audience laughed heartily at nearly every situation and gave them three or four curtain calls at the finish. 30 minutes, full stage.
Four girls and one man in a musical act. It is rather a pretty act, but lacks a great deal of being as strong as the Willie family who opened in Philadelphia today. It is, however, a pleasing turn and as they are new faces they cannot help being appreciated. 16 minutes, open full stage and close in one.
NR 3 – A colored man and woman in a lively singing and dancing act. The man is beyond question the liveliest fellow of his race that I have ever seen. He does a lot of acrobatic dancing and some entirely original feats in the gymnastic line. The woman is clever and the whole act made a big hit. 17 minutes in one.
GRR 3 – This is an acrobatic and comedy act, one of the men making up as a golf player and the other one as a farmer. Both of them are exceptionally clever acrobats. The act is fully equal to that of the old turn of Coture and Devoe, whom we have already played over the circuit two or three times. 9 minutes, full stage.
2 shows, 25 min. full stage – Presenting for the first time here his new dramatic play, “Number 973”, which is the best sketch over done here, and could be played a fortnight if next week’s bill permitted, which it does not. Both Mr. Hilliard and his support are capital actors, and the stage setting was notably complete in every detail. Half a dozen encores followed the final curtain.
