The act was thirteen minutes long.
Laura Buckley does an impersonation routine called “Studies from Life”. She walks up to a table onstage with wigs and makeup on it and is assisted by a maid who helps her change. She impersonates an old man, a red-headed manicurist, a grandmother, and a female demonstrator of a new breakfast cereal in a department store. She does semi-recitative songs. She changes into a long dress at the end and takes a bow as herself.
Whittle does some good comedy with his dummies and a trick with a cornet for the finale.
This “settee” act entitled “The Wager” was eleven minutes long.
Garson and Bogues sit on a settee and sing and do some comedic talk.
The trio consists of a straight man and woman and a comedian in blackface. The trio plays pianos and saxophones.
This skit entitled “From Stage Carpenter to Ackter” was twenty-two minutes long.
Charles and Fanny Van play a vaudeville team. Charles’ character used to be a stage carpenter and Fanny has just divorced her husband and former vaudeville partner. They sing a song and ask the audience for laughs so that they’ll get another booking. When the audience laughs, Charles takes a picture of them as proof. He announces at the end that he accidentally took all of the pictures on one roll, so none of them will turn out. They do some more parodies and then a “Rest in Peace” horseshoe is passed over the footlights.
Sully and Hussey have a “routine of nonsensical chatter and several character songs.” The comic was able to hold the act by himself for over eight minutes with a few character songs.
This sketch entitled “The Yellow Peril” was twenty-six minutes long.
Nina Morris plays an American secret agent who attempts to get Japanese agent Jakusha to admit his plans to invade the fleet in San Francisco. The setting is a parlour. Screens around the stage show moving pictures of the action that is happening offstage. Jakusha is eventually lured into the parlour by Morris and her fellow agents and she records his confession on a dictaphone behind his back. The moving pictures show Jakusha’s secretary being apprehended in the street outside his apartment.
The act was nine minutes long on the full stage.
Bamberg is a “shadowgraphist” who makes shadow pictures with his hands behind a stage light. He is announced as a “European Court Entertainer” who has performed for the likes of King Edward VII of England, the Crown Prince of Sweden, and the Shah of Persia, among many others.
The act was thirteen minutes long on the full stage.
Two men sing and play the piano. They do some pleasing “talk” as they play.
The act was fifteen minutes long on the full stage.
The quartet plays rags on brass instruments and xylophones. They “strip change” costumes several times. One of them acts as a German comedian with a goatee.
