Ader Trio
Mounted Club Jugglers. Garden in 3. 8 minutes. Local man and two boys doing a comparatively neat juggling act which was well applauded throughout and at the close. 3 shows.
‘High Jinks’
2 shows, 21 min. full stage. This act is due to make one of the biggest laughing hits that has ever been seen in vaudeville. I believe we have been rather modest in exploiting it thus far, but other cities can do considerable ‘hollering’ about it. We will keep it another week here, in order to get it into first-class shape in every way, and then send it on the road.
Sam Watson’s Barn Yard Circus
Full stage-wood, 25 minutes. This act is a surely a novelty in the way of animal acts and could be improved very much. Mr. Watson’s idea of comedy is not good and we were compelled to cut his talking down quite a little. He wanted to do 25 minutes. We cut him down to about 19 and 15 minutes. However, it is going very well and feel sure that with a few weeks work that he will see the necessity of cutting out some of his English comedy.
Henry Dixey and Co.
20 minutes, full stage. Interior. In ‘David Carrick on the Art of Acting.’ I think Mr. Dixey’s sketch is one of the worst that I have ever seen. During the sketch he introduces the very over-done ‘learning to act’ which is done very poorly. If it were not for the ability of Mr. Dixey it would be a pitiful affair. The act is not going with our patrons and I have not heard one word of praise for it during the entire week.
Rose Wentworth Trio
Two men, a woman, two beautiful white horse of the Percheron Breed, a cart and coach horse dog make up this act. Miss Wentworth and one of the men is some remarkable good bareback riding, and the act itself is one of the best acts of this kin in vaudeville. It was recently a feature of Barnum & Bailey’s circus. 14 min, FS.
Mlle Chester and Statue Dog
The dog, Billy, is a beautiful white setter, beautiful as a picture. His eleven different poses are truly remarkable, as he remains as motionless as if carved from stone. The act is not only a novelty but is very pretty and gives the audience a genuine treat. 9 minutes, FS.
The Imperial Japanese Guards
The first thing that this act needs is photographs. I received from Philadelphia, four of the toughest, cheap-looking, dirtiest pictures I ever saw. Mr. Hemans, who has charge of the act, came here yesterday, and I think the other houses on the circuit will get a little benefit of the calling down I gave him. This act will improve at every performance. As yet, they are not thoroughly up in military tactics. They are being rehearsed every day, and will no doubt be in much better shape before the week is out. This act is a great attraction for vaudeville at present, and went very gib [sic] yesterday. There are 17 Japs and 4 white people in the act, making 21 in all. Time of the act, 12 minutes, full stage.
Rice and Prevost
In a comedy acrobatic act. This is the greatest laughing act in the show business today, without any exception. It is also a finished act. Everything that Rice does is done in an artistic manner. They scored one of the biggest hits yesterday made in the city since the palmy days of Ching Ling Foo. As for a distinct laughing number, we have never had anything like it before. Time of the act, 11 minutes full stage.
Les Dahlias
A novelty French dancing act. This is a good act of its kind, and is about in line with other acts of a similar nature. They do posing and pirouetting upon a pedestal, which is somewhat of a novelty. They carry two special drops, which gives the act quite a nice stage setting. The act was well received here yesterday. Time 9 minutes, full stage.
Robert Hilliard and Co.
‘AS A MAN SOWS.’ Robert Hillard last night presented as a new sketch entitled ‘AS A MAN SOWS’; by many considered the strongest thing he has yet offered. While there many be some doubt about this, the fact still remains that he has an exceptionally strong vehicle and one that will carry him through vaudeville another couple of seasons, and in my mind, he should be booked in it at once. This regardless of any opinion that I may have had to the contrary before seeing this act which I have arranged for him to repeat during the remainder of the week. It is intensely dramatic but this is off-set by some charming comedy by the little child who in this piece is given the best opportunity she has yet had in any of the Hillard plays.