Miss Dacre: “it is not a pleasant thing to hear a woman swear under any circumstances. Miss Dacre seems to find it necessary.” When they find that “damn” fails to gain a laugh they throw in a couple of “hells” to liven up the jaded tastes of the applauders.” When Dacre ad the two comedians “are not swearing, the two men are making improper suggestions to her through very plain innuendo”.
Foreign act. Takes old trick from circus of asking anyone in audience to ride a horse for a reward if successful. Here it is a donkey. One hundred dollars is offered to anyone who can ride it. “The confederates employed do not hurt the value of the act as a laugh producer”. A few trick ponies also feature in the act.
Burgess is the same as ever, “his humor being confined in large measure to his old fashioned pantalettes.”
Had she given as much attention to singing as she did to her hair, a better report could be given
commonplace – “little grace or abandon”, the costumes were poor and “the women are ugly”
The dress she wears in the French song “ought to be seen”
the women “dress very decolette, and on the darkened stage in the opening they apear to have on night gowns”
