Year: 1912

The Martine Brothers

The Martine Brothers perform a trampoline act and finish with sixty consecutive somersaults on the bounding table.

Harry Fox and the Millership Sisters

Harry Fox has mastered the art of “kidding” and is always a sure-fire hit. He tried out some new “nifties” and the well-dressed Millership sisters held up their end of the act.

Roy Raceford

The act was seventeen minutes long. Raceford performs songs of his own composition in a strong English accent and a cutaway suit.

Molasso

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.

Clara Blandick and Co.

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.

Mrs. Louise James and Co.

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.”

Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay presents his moving pictures of drawings, which he manipulates into “quaint, humorous and interesting films.”

Williams and Van Alstyne

The act sings comic songs with the aid of a “plant” in the orchestra pit who wears a silver wig.