Italian Trio
about 500 pounds of act. They haven’t been in US long enough to know that “black bows are not proper form for full evening dress”
Murphy and Frances
“the girl is highly painted and a pair of slippers give her feet a shapely form. Why will a colored girl, very dark, always try to emulate a mulatto in looks on the stage, and a mulatto try for white effect?”
Pantzer Trio
“about the last in the old line of contortionist to hold a place on the better class bills. They succeed because the act is always neatly dressed and the grotesque posturing fall to the lot of the man”
Three Meers
The double step and finish on the “endless wire” was effective. Miss Meer has a “graceful carriage and refined appearance” — she should be more featured
Al Reeves Big Beauty Show
girls are well dressed in costumes “that have a new appearance”. But the colors are not blended well and “the present combination” makes some of the girls “look grotesque”. The girls are “much better looking at long range than close at hand, and all seem quite youthful from the front.”
McKissick and Shadley
The woman wore “forty-three different colors in her dress” she also wore a wig. “A change displayed a costume probably costing $4.50
The Cranes
Will Clarke and Company
“there is action to out action vaudeville” but “legitimate comedy” not slapstick. Skit about a man who suspects his friend is impersonating his stepmother to play a trick on him. He “commits assault and battery upon the real step mother under the impression that she is a masquerader”
Mr and Mrs Jimmie Barry
a would-be wise country youth who knows all the actresses through reading the Police Gazette