Year: 1905

Mr and Mrs Jimmie Barry

a would-be wise country youth who knows all the actresses through reading the Police Gazette

Fiske and McDonough

Fiske plays a “tough”; Miss McDonough is “horribly affected as the society matron”; she is “entirely off-key”

Nan Engleton & Co.

A young widow is pursued by a masher who says that unless she receives him within a half-hour he will break into her apartment. She has another admirer, a youthful Colonel, who has a “rum blossom” on the end of his nose and who has taken up riding as it is advertised as a cure. He is in pain due to sore feet from his riding boots and she thinks he is intoxicated. When she leaves the stage he takes off his boots. She enters, sees the boots and thinks her stalker has come. The Colonel locks her safely in another room, pretends to slay the intruder and “so wins the widow”

The Three De Koes

They use head pads for balancing. “It is customary nowadays to wear these head pads for this style of acrobatics, but the same work, if not better, was done over forty years ago without their assistance”

Peri Sisters

the 6 sisters do Chinese dances and finish with a Hungarian dance “entirely devoid of the fire and abandon that are the chiefest charms of this style of dance.”