This sketch entitled “An Opening Night” was twenty-five minutes long on the open and closed full stage.
The sketch begins with a young couple who have been cut off from their wealthy families because they love each other. The two dollars they have to their name is quickly taken by the washerwoman, the baker, and the milkman in a comedic bit. The couple then attends a free show in which they win three hundred dollars in a prize game called “Zim Zam” (similar to Lotto or Keno). They buy a drugstore with their money and live happily ever after. The sets include a church, a stage show, and a drugstore interior. There are about fifteen people in the act.
This sketch entitled “The Wardrobe Woman” and written by Edgar Allan Woolf was twenty-three minutes long.
Zelda Sears plays the titular Wardrobe Woman. The setting is offstage at an opera house. The manager leaves the troupe, so the rest of them marry each other. The wardrobe woman marries the property man so she can get back to Broadway.
This sketch entitled “What the Doctor Ordered” was twenty-one minutes long.
The plots revolves around a “family scrap”. The setting is a parlour. Fanny Ward plays the main character and Mrs. Stanhope Wheaton and Harry Dodd play the elderly parts.
This sketch entitled “Mien Liebschen” and written by Joseph Hart was twenty-two minutes long on the full stage.
The plot revolves around two German men who came to the United States as youngsters to become famous musicians. They did not, and now depend on one of the men’s daughters who works in a department store. The manager of the store eventually asks her to marry him, but the older men doubt his intentions. The manager and the daughter convince the men of his sincerity. The comedy comes from a “shop girl” character who is also in love with the manager but does not get her way.
This sketch entitled “Honor is Satisfied” was seventeen minutes long.
The plots concerns a man who returns home after a year’s absence to find his wife eating dinner at the home of his best friend. The man concludes that to save the family’s honour, one of them must die. They draw lots and the friend comes up short. He attempts to shoot himself with a revolver, but misses. The man then agrees to die instead. Before he can shoot himself, however, his wife clings to him and insists that she is innocent and loves him and no one has to die. The man agrees and gives his friend the empty revolver as a souvenir of his scorn. He then takes his wife home.
This instrumental act entitled “A Night in Venice” was eighteen minutes long.
This all-male quartet includes a notable harpist and a talented violinist, who seem to overshadow the two younger boys. They play classical numbers until the finale, during which they play “rag” songs. The setting changes from a pretty Venetian scene to a church interior.
Leonard and Russell sing and dance. Leonard “danced until he reeked with perspiration and sang until he was tired.”
This “old-fashioned quartet” sang several songs as they did some slapstick comedy. One of the men wields a huge club and the straight man kicks the comedian’s stomach.
Ethel Lorraine sings and is supported by four girls, who take up the time when she has to do a costume change.
Willard Lee Hall is a female impersonator. He is approximately two hundred and twenty pounds and dresses as a woman, complete with wig. He begins the act by sitting in a chair and telling drawn-out stories. His assistant does some good stepping.
