The Society Three

The act was fourteen minutes long. One girl plays the piano and makes announcements. The other two sing. One of the singers has an English accent and a propensity for comedy. The pianist plays a rag and sings a solo with a good voice.

DeArno

The act was nine minutes long on the full stage. DeArno juggles plates, balls (like W.C. Fields), sticks, turnips, cannon balls, and more. He does some comedy talk as he goes.

Those Four Kids

The act was fifteen minutes long. Four young people sing and dance. Two boys do a hardshoe dance and they all sing solos.

Morgan, Bailey and Morgan

This piano-act was fifteen minutes long. Jimmy Morgan (formerly of Morgan and Chester and then a “single”), his wife, and Mr. Bailey are a musical trio. Morgan plays the piano and Bailey plays the banjo. Mrs. Morgan opens with “Circus day” accompanied by Morgan and Bailey. The two then do an instrumental duet. Mrs. Morgan sings two more songs and begins the encore. The men play their instruments alone for the finish.

Fred Kay

The act was ten minutes long. Fred Kay does a signing monologue. He talks about marriage and sings in a falsetto when impersonating a wife.

Laddie Cliff

Laddie Cliff sings and dances in a top coat and derby.

Four Baseball Players

This act entitled “Twenty Minutes in the Clubhouse” was fifteen minutes long. The quartet of players consists of Bill Gleason of Galveston, George Crable (recently signed to Cleveland), Tom Dillon of Macon, and Frank Browning (signed by the Philadelphia Nationals). The boys sing and talk in their baseball uniforms. Crable tells a story about playing against Wagner in Galveston. The finish involves one of the men who pretends to make a long hit, jumps through the orchestra pit and back up onstage to be tagged out.

LeVelle and Grant

LeVelle and Grant have a routine of posing and hand-to-hand acrobatics. They do some cabinet work at the beginning and then change into neat costumes. “The team works entirely straight and does not stall for applause.”

Mme. Besson and Co.

This sketch entitled “Found Out” was nineteen minutes long. Besson stars as a wife who stole a leather purse containing seventy-five dollars and gold jewelry from the beauty parlour. Her husband is a poor lawyer and is ashamed of the wife when he finds out she tried to hide it from him.

Cliff Gordon

Cliff Gordon has a topical monologue. He has a new quiet way of working which is in direct contrast to the way in which he used to work himself up in excitement while he told his stories.