Horse play
6 French performers. Three burglars are pursued by 3 gendarmes through a 2 story building set. A plank runs out of a 2nd storey window “that affords them opportunity for good work”
“would be only ordinary in a country circus because they are used to trick mules … Here n New York trick mules are scarce… the unridable one is a scream”. The act is “cleverly faked” with volunteers from the audience. “The effect of spontaneity is gained”. Some of the volunteers are tumblers.
Sam and Ida Kelly.
the dancer’s toe work is really remarkable
Overin is made up as a scarecrow.
dressed as hag … his changes are wonderfully made. Other than the hag he offers a “clean cur exhibition of good acting marred a trifle by long speeches”
He is in a purple suit and no longer changes into a fresh suit each time he changes characters
A burglar breaks in to a house with woman in it. It would be better were he made “a gentleman in the rough”; woman carries her end well.