Mollie Wood
The act was nine minutes long.
A large good-looking woman wears “colleen garb” and plays an Irish medley on the violin.
Bert Von Klein and Grace Gibson
The act was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
Von Klein and Gibson sing and dance in front of plush curtains. While they sing the opening number they do a dance in which Von Klein swings Gibson out over the audience. Gibson sings two songs in a kiddish voice. Von Klein’s voice is a “thin tenor” and he does female impersonations for one number while he changes in front of the audience.
Alf. Wilson
The act was ten minutes long.
Alf. Wilson sings, performs a recitation, and tells ancient jokes in blackface.
Toledo
The act was seven minutes long on the full stage.
Toledo opens with two minutes of pantomime during which he walks across the stage, lights a cigarette, and sits down to read a paper. He then takes off his coat and curves his body backwards until his hands touch his ankles. He does some “cakewalk stepping” in that position. For a finish, he stands on a kitchen table held in place by a stagehand. He bends backward until he touches the floor and then “raises himself into an erect posture on the table.”
Chrisconia Trio
The act was fourteen minutes long.
This trio of straight Italian singers consists of two men and one woman dressed in Italian costume. They sing a standard routine of classical numbers.
A. Seymour Brown
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Seymour Brown was previously a member of the vaudeville and song writing duo Brown and Ayer. He sings four songs, dances, and makes a speech.
Three Romans
The act was eight minutes long.
Two men in Roman costumes and mustaches and a woman in a knee length dancing skirt and heeled slippers are equilibrists. The woman stand on top of two twelve foot ladders and the men balance on them and perform tricks.
Hal Davis, Inez Macauley and Co.
This sketch entitled “The Girl From Child’s” was written by Archie Colby and was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
Davis plays a lawyer named Mr. Bull whose wife (Inez Macauley) is waiting for him to come home for their first anniversary celebration. The new maid she hired turns out to be the the man’s first wife, who divorced him because he was a “no-account.” When she picks up the phone in the Bull household, a chorus girl is on the line asking for Mr. Bull. The maid then calls Bull to threaten to tell his wife everything if he does not stay home that night and shower her with affection and gifts on their anniversary. He complies. She departs the house to the music of “So Long, Mary”.
James and Francis
The act was sixteen minutes long.
The man is tall and thin and wears skin tight clothes. He does a brief monologue and the woman sings a ballad. The man then changes to eccentric clothes and does a crazy dance.
Big Jim
The act was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
A trained bear roller skates on its hind legs, does a turkey trot and “grizzly” stepping to the tune of “Grizzly Bear”, plays dead, and does some comedy wrestling with some plants in the audience. The announcer (speaking in a German accent but dressed in Mexican costume) states that the bear is six years old and weighs three hundred and eighty pounds. He performs without a muzzle or strings. He then “declares he has spent his life “breaking” bears, has trained twenty-eight of them, that this one is the first ever taught to skate or do acrobatics.”