George E. Garden
George E. Garden plays popular and classical numbers on the xylophone.
“Texas Tommy Dancers”
The act was seven minutes long on the full stage.
These dancers are the original “Texas Tommy Dancers” from the Barbary Coast. They wear cowboy and cowgirl costumes and play brass instruments and drums as they dance. One number is similar to “Apache” dances which are familiar to New York vaudeville.
The Dare Brothers
The Dare Brothers opened the show with an ordinary routine of well-timed acrobatics.
Gertrude Vanderbilt and Clay Smith
The act was sixteen minutes long on the full stage.
Vanderbilt and Smith sing and dance in evening clothes. Vanderbilt wears a nice sleeveless gown (one of three). The pair sing solos and duets and usually begin dancing on the second chorus of each song.
Harry Puck and Mabelle Lewis
Harry Puck and Mabelle Lewis sing and dance. They do a dancing finale.
Cabaret Trio
This piano act was fifteen minutes long.
Two singers (Billy Devere and Arthur Herman) and a blind pianist (Arthur Stone) do straight and rag numbers. One of the men sings a good “souse” solo. The pianist does a straight solo on the piano.
W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields has returned from abroad with some new juggling tricks which got several laughs.
Boynton and Meyers
The act was twelve minutes long.
Two good looking girls play the piano and the violin. The pianist begins with a medley of popular song choruses and the violinist has some solos. The pianist then does some more rag numbers.
Belifore Trio
This slack wire and trapeze act was ten minutes long on the full stage.
Two men a woman have a unique routine on the slack wire. They conclude with a performance on the trapeze.
Five Melody Maids and a Man
The act was sixteen minutes long.
Nellie Wood, Tom Penfold, and Hazel Wilbur do most of the solos on the piano. Four pianos are used in total and some of them seem to be out of tune. The girls are attractively dressed in gowns, however, which makes for a pleasing backdrop.