The act was eighteen minutes long.
These living pictures are set on a stage which is made up to look like the exterior of a Grecian temple. After an announcement, thirteen living reproductions of famous statues and paintings are presented. Three or four of the reproductions are nudes.
The rathskeller-style act was fifteen minutes long.
Three young men sing and one plays the piano. All three have good voices. The two who do not play the piano seem to have been recruited from a rathskeller because of the way they sing. They sang six numbers and ended with the “usual ‘rag’.”
This sketch entitled “The Pool Room” is a moralistic tale about young men who frequent pool rooms. There are two full pool tables onstage and the interior is meant to look like a cheap pool room. A boy (played by Ezra F. Kendall Jr.) soon runs inside, claiming to have shot a man. An older crook (Charles Wildisch) then takes the blame for him when the detectives arrive. The older man then takes poison and dies, but not before “begging his younger companions to go home and stay there.”
This sketch entitled “The Prodigal Son” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
A young man cavorts with women of ill repute and gambles away his money offstage, which causes his fiance to drop him. He returns home to his mother who he treats badly. As he goes to bed, the curtains are lowered. When they are raised, he is in the costume of a convict and he screams for another chance. When the curtain lowers and raises again, it is reveal that the previous scene was a dream. His mother runs in to comfort him and he assures her he will change his ways.
The act was seven minutes long.
George Moore formerly assisted Isabel D’Armond and Laura Guerite and acted as a “Johnny.” He claims to be a German character, but his makeup is not German, nor does he perform any German numbers. Although he is known as a clever dancer, he only dances briefly.
This “Song and Sidewalk Talk” act was eighteen minutes long.
Two African American men sing and talk. One is the straight man and the other is eccentric. The straight man tries to get the other man’s money to bet at the racetrack. The curtain is then lowered and a “moving film” appears, which shows the two at the track. “They continue the conversation during the picture, keeping accurate time to the gestures.”
The act was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
Six men and two women, native Hawaiians, play Hawaiian instruments and dance. A piccolo players gets a solo in the opening number. One of the women (“somewhat stout”) does a native dance.
The act was seven minutes long.
Marie Arvelle has an excellent mezzo-soprano voice. She sings three prima donna songs, “all calculated to show her high notes off to advantage.”
The act was seven minutes long on the full stage.
This triple act on the horizontal bars has greatly improved since they debuted in New York three years ago. The clown’s makeup is now superb and he gets laughs easily while performing on the bars. The two straight men do a double somersault trick that is quite impressive.
The act was eleven minutes long.
A young man and woman do conventional singing, dancing, and cross-fire “patter”. The man sometimes departs from the average gags to copy jokes from Jarrow, Harry Fox, and others.
