This sketch entitled “First Love” was twenty-four minutes long.
Lulu Glaser plays a woman who is betrothed to a solider-tenor who she has never met. She dresses as a maid in order to find out his true nature. They get along well. Thomas D. Richards plays the soldier-tenor and sings a few numbers in a red and gold uniform. Glaser wears a black maid’s uniform and a pretty pink gown.
This one-man pantomime entitled “A Lesson in Temperance” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Billie Reeves plays his original “Drunk” character dressed in evening clothes covered by a topcoat and a grey mustache. He exits a “booze parlour” and attempts to make his way home. He has a duck in his pocket which squawks repeatedly. When he attempts to lean on a lamp post, it immediately jumps away from him. The keyhole of his front door will also not stay put. When he gets inside, many trick props revolve and move around the room (likely moved by incognito stage hands).
The act was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
“Harrison Stewart, colored, late of Stewart and Marshall, heads this new act. It is a simple schoolroom arrangement, with three small colored girls and five boys.” The “picks” dance and sing in ensemble.
The act was twenty minutes long on the full stage.
Th Perea Sextet from Portugal plays classical and popular songs on three violins, a cello, a bass violin, an organ, and a piano.
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.
