This “sister act” was fourteen minutes long.
Sterling and Hutton open with a sister act, but it is obvious that the larger “sister” is a man. The girl does a kid song in rompers and the man wears a bathing suit for a song and takes off his wig when it is over. The girl does another kid number while the man changes into men’s clothes. They finish with another song and dance.
The act was ten minutes long on the full stage.
The Great Tornados are composed of five men and one woman. A “ringer” has an excellent disguise. They do a conventional acrobatic routine.
The act was thirteen minutes long.
Helen McMahon does some of the best limp “scarecrow” work that vaudeville has ever seen. Maurice Diamond does some mixed dancing and Ida Clemence sings.
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Two male comedy musicians have a routine of gags. The straight hands the comedian a cornet to play and when he does flour is blown into his face.
The act was fourteen minutes long on the full stage.
The King Sisters and young and slim and Miss Stuyvesant is the “matronly type”. They play up their differences for comedic effect. They finish with a trio song which is simple but effective.
The act was nineteen minutes long.
Jock McKay is a Scottish comedian and monologist. He tells stories, jokes, and plays two songs on the bagpipes. He also jokes about why the Scottish play the bagpipes: “It makes the Scotchman brave in war…They would rather be killed than hear it.”
This dancing pantomime called “Canoeing” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
The setting is a woodland scene. In the opening, Mr. Hughes sleeps on a log while Miss Adelaide sits on a fence. They do some pantomime and proceed to dance a “no-clasp” and a variation on the tango. They exit in the canoe. Adelaide is dressed in an attractive white outing suit which gave her the appearance of Flora Parker.
The act was ten minutes long.
Love and Haight are female impersonators. The shorter of the two plays a soubrette and dances ballet. The other performs in the style of Julian Eltinge.
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Vera Michelena is from musical comedy and was featured in “Alma”. She opens with a song from “Alma” and continues with “Beautiful Dream”. She does another song and finishes with an Oriental number that is infused with rag. She begins in a purple gown and wears several becoming caps with her other costumes. The costume in the Oriental number has a slit up the side so high that she may as well be wearing tights.
The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
Tilford is a talented ventriloquist who smokes a cigar while performing. He sits his grotesque dummy on a table and uses a telephone. He does fast talk with his dummy while smoking and at one point travels into the audience. “Even under the spotlight there is no perceptible movement of the lips.”
