Year: 1912

The Great Howard

The Great Howard is a comedy ventriloquist. He wears a new kilt and has changed the facial expressions of his dummies.

Great Zarrell

The act was thirteen minutes long. Great Zarrell performs tricks and card manipulation in a dress suit. He does a trick in which he asks for a derby hat and a handkerchief from the audience. He then places a drinking glass on a glass-topped table with the handkerchief and the derby (crown side down) on top. The derby then sinks to the table with the glass inside the hat and the handkerchief on the table. He then does card tricks with volunteers from the audience.

Blossom Seeley

The act was ten minutes long. Blossom Seeley sang four rag songs and did not change costume.

Emma Carus

The act was twenty-four minutes long. Carus sings an English song with a monologue in between, followed by an Italian dialect ballad and a rag number. She is now accompanied by a pianist. She dances during the rag number and reveals that she is wearing one black and one white stocking.

Mae West

The act was eleven minutes long. Mae West is a vaudeville single after having been in a “double” and a principal in a Ziegfeld show. She dresses oddly and sings several rag songs. She sings her last song seated on a chair and finishes with a “loose” dance.

Rehlander’s Pigs

The act was ten minutes long on the full stage. Rehlander performs in a white butcher’s cap and apron with his trained pigs. Rehlander enters the stage on roller skates, pulled by a pig. The routine includes pulling a wheelbarrow, walking on hind legs, bowling, and catching clown hats in their mouths. Whenever a pig seems reluctant to perform a trick, Rehlander sharpens his butcher’s knife until they comply.

Jane Boynton and Mary Myers

The act was fourteen minutes long. The two women play popular melodies. Boynton plays the piano and Myers plays the violin. Boynton also sings. They are dressed in brown Renaissance lace over satin dresses.

Six Brachs

The act was five minutes long on the full stage. The acrobats enter the stage in an open barouche. They perform in “natty full tight-fitting white outfits trimmed with black.” They have a number of new tricks.