The Banjophiends
The act was fourteen minutes long.
Four men and a boy play rag numbers and a patriotic medley on banjos and the piano. The boy fools the audience with female makeup. Once he removes his wig he plays better.
Hubert Wilkie and Co.
This sketch entitled “My Sunshine” was fifteen minutes long.
A young couple are getting ready for the day in their country home when an old Italian man enters singing “Sola Mio”. The man tells them that he and his brother loved the same woman. The man married the woman and they had a child, whom his brother stole out of revenge. The child’s mother then died of a broken heart. The child’s uncle raised him to believe that his father deserted his wife and young son. It is revealed that the young man listening to this tale with his wife is that same child. He heaps abuse onto the father he thinks abandoned him. In the end, he realizes that what the Italian man said was true and embraces him as his long lost father. The father concludes with an emotional rendition of the “Sola Mio” ballad.
Frizzo
The act was thirty-three minutes long.
Frizzo is billed as an Italian quick change artist. He speaks German and Italian with a “Yiddish” accent and begins with a sketch called “Eldorado”. He then impersonates great composers. His finale is an expose of “black art”.
The Marvelous Millers
The Marvelous Millers do a dancing routine. They perform a series of waltzes.
Harrison Armstrong Players
This sketch entitled “Hushed Up” was twenty-two minutes long.
This melodramatic sketch is similar to “many of the protean criminology sketches that were so prevalent around some time ago.”
The Nettie Carroll Trio
This all-female act of wire walkers performs in front of new picturesque scenery.
Rondas Trio
The act was twelve minutes long on the full stage.
Two young girls and a boy open with a song and dance. They also do some cartwheels. They then change into ” neat red panties” for some bicycle riding. As a finale, they play the mandolin, guitar, and castanets while riding.
Makarenka Duo
The Makarenka Duo are a Russian male and female team that do duets. They are dressed in “native costumes” and sing in Russian.
Mlle Veola
The act was eleven minutes long.
Mlle Veola sings emphatically, with long pauses and eye rolling, which the audience seems to enjoy. “She also uses a male ‘plant’ in a box for a chorus song.”
Rozelda and Zelenzy
One girl sings and the other plays the violin in a gypsy setting. The do “comic opera waltz sort of music” and finish with a rag.