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.
The act was thirteen minutes long.
Four musicians dress in evening clothes and play popular music.
The act was seven minutes long.
Two men do a routine of tumbling, hand-to-hand and head-to-head tricks. One wears a tuxedo and the other wears a cutaway with pearl buttons on the sides of his trousers.
Montamba and Wells do a grotesque comedy acrobatic routine. They closed with a version of the Melrose chair-toppling trick.
Lucy Daly headlined the show and did several songs with six chorus girls. During “Different Phases of Life”, there are living representations of the lyrics onstage (i.e. a miser with his coin). She then does an audience song, which is followed by a Parasol song in which members of the audience are invited to throw balls at the girls behind the parasols. The finale is a lively singing and dancing number, with the chorus girls dressed as “showgirls.”
Francesco Creatore conducts his band which plays the work of famous composers. While they play, illuminated pictures of the composers are shown.
The act was twenty-three minutes long on the full stage.
Carrie De Mar sings several songs in front of a huge opened album suspended in purple velvet. A sheet on the side of the stage announces the title of each song. Her costumes range from a beautiful gown to a light blue silk knickers.
