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.”
The act was twelve minutes long on the full stage.
The Trio, made up of two girls and a boy, does single, double, and triple dancing. The boy does some toe work and the girls make two or three pretty costume changes.
Grace De Winters has a few new ventriloquy bits. The dummies imitate songs of different celebrities while De Winters changes their costumes.
Harry Antrim does some whistling and impersonations. He opens with “Chicken Rag”
The Lowes do lasso tricks. The man, who sounds and acts like Will Rogers, did all of the standard lasso stunts usually done by the masters.
The Magnani Family dresses as street workers and play songs on diver instruments meant to look like tools.
