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.”
Musical Waltons
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
The act features two pretty girls and a young boy. One of the girls sings, but shouldn’t. The girls do a duet and solos on brass instruments and the boy emerges to play the drums and the xylophone for a marching number at the finish. They open in blue uniforms and change to white. The girls wear pretty dresses in between and the boy wears a drummer’s uniform. He has long hair.
Keppler and Joe
The act was fourteen minutes long.
A man dressed in Hebrew costume and a girl sing, dance, and do some comedic “talk”. For the finish, the couple comes down into the audience for some more “kidding”. They leave the stage with a dance.
Rosa Valerio Troupe
The act was seven minutes long on the full stage.
Three women (though one seems to be a man in makeup) and two men do a fast routine of wire walking. They walk on two wires above a net. Two of the girls do some running.
The Providence Players
This sketch entitled “Who is Brown?” was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
Lynn Overman plays a husband who gets in trouble with his wife for staying out all night. He insists that he was staying up all night with his sick friend Mr. Brown and gives her a fake address. The wife mails a telegram to said address and actually gets a note back from a Mr. Brown. Confusion ensues.
Jennings and Dorman
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Percy O’Malley Jennings is an English comedian with a new partner (Edna Dorman) who acts as his “feeder”. Jennings plays a slow-thinking Londoner who takes a long time to understand jokes. He also sings two songs. Dorman does a topical song for a solo. They sing “We Are Going Back to the City and Dear Old Broadway” and finish with some dancing.
Bessie Clifford
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Bessie Clifford is blonde and sings three songs and dances for an encore. During the “I’m A Nut” number, she wears a “Yama” costume with a squared high hat and sings one verse while jumping up and down on a piano. She makes fast changes.
Goldie Boys
The act was nine minutes long.
The Goldie boys are a clean cut two man dance team who do a standard routine.
Ada Reeves
The act was twenty-one minutes long.
Ada Reeves is an English singer appearing in New York for the first time. She sings five comedy songs in the same gown.