He does all the set tricks such as eating fire, swallowing words, etc.
An assistant does the comedy work usual in this sort of an act.
The story is simple but somewhat new and refreshing for vaudeville. Two brothers are there. One is a wild fellow, the other a nice boy. There is the one mistake of the piece. The author has tied the lively American girl to the “nice boy.” But that makes the story. The wild fellow finds a baby left on the doorstep and pins a note to it saying that it belongs to the nice fellow.
The general frame up of the act is of the usual two-men dancing arrangement type.
The boys look well, making no change of costume.
Set in Rome.
The curtain falls with Caesar.
Female Comedy Acrobats.
Black and White are two rather pretty girls.
From the opening of their act no one could suspect acrobatics. As the curtain goes up, they are seated at a table smoking cigarettes and singing a song about ” The Athletic Girl.”
One is brunette who dresses entirely in black with the exception of a white hair ribbon.
The other is clad all in white wearing a powdered wig with a black ribbon.
After the opening, the girls do some ground tumbling that is fast and snappy.
They do hand-to-hand balancing.
Slack wire.The act is made up of two men. One does nothing except standing on the stage awaiting an accident. HIs partner starts off with some good work on the slack wire, finishing with a slide down a rope, running from top to bottom across the stage.
The make-up is fashioned somewhat after the style affected by Richard Carle, with top hat, without any bell, and long Prince Albert coats.
The drop represents the rear entrance of a theatre on the right, and a piano shop on the left.
They close with their “Ganzy Twins” dance and burlesque posing.
The scene is in the Philippine Islands. Both men are Lieutenants of the U.S.A.
A comic drama.
Russian Fear tells a story of the oppression of the Hebrew in the realm of the Czar, the final emigration of one to this country, and the tribulations that beset his existence over here.
The scene is laid in the interior of the Hebrew’s small tailor shop.
There are two men in the sketch.