Trovollo
uses mechanial doll
Mayme Remington and Pickaninnies
Singer’s Monkeys and Dogs
one skit has a Chinese laundry scene with two monkeys. One monkey does a bicycle skit.
Carlisle’s dogs and pony
has a talking pony. treats animals well on stage
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
The Eight Shetlands
Fiske and McDonough
Fiske plays a “tough”; Miss McDonough is “horribly affected as the society matron”; she is “entirely off-key”