The act was twenty minutes long.
Roberts is the well-dressed straight to Bernard’s comedic “cabman” character. The act opens on a bare stage, as Roberts argues with the orchestra leader. Bernard then comes through the audience pretending to be an angry cab driver waiting outside the theatre for his fare. The duo then goes into their songs and talk. Bernard’s character is an amalgam of those created by Dave Morton and Al Fields.
Whitman plays the violin and dances.
The act was twelve minutes long.
Stanley and Bourke perform an act written by Tommy Gray for himself and Bourke. The team sings and “talks” and pretends to be fired by the management.
This is a two person sketch entitled “He Tried to Be Nice.”
The act was twenty minutes long.
Lawlor and his two young daughters perform songs are are new to New York vaudeville. The daughters do a lot of costume changes.
Lolo is a mind reader. With her eyes completely shut, she guesses correct figures and addresses of the audience with “amazing rapidity”. She finishes with a shooting exhibition “that is short of marvelous.”
The act was seventeen minutes long. Raceford performs songs of his own composition in a strong English accent and a cutaway suit.
G. Molasso produces a pantomime number called “Paris By Night”, which was seventeen minutes long.
Molasso has renewed the pantomime by eliminating the killing scene and including a can-can dance and more comedy. A very good-looking woman dances with the younger Molasso in an “Apache” number. He handles her well.
The sketch was fifteen minutes long on the full stage.
The sketch was “bare stage” and the actors performed with no props. The plot concerned an actress who was asked to leave the company. After she leaves, a woman arrives and claims to be the stage manager’s deserted wife. After she has convinced the entire cast and crew of her plight, she reveals that she is actually the same actress they fired that day. Convinced of her true skill, the company welcomes her back and offers her the lead role in the play.
This sketch entitled “Holding a Husband” was eighteen minutes long.
The sketch stars Mrs. Louis (Alphie) James, who plays a woman with a flighty husband. He immediately begins to fall in love with her best friend. She succeeds in making him forget her friend, which prompts him to “inelegantly” exclaim, “To hell with Carolyn.”
