This sketch entitled “The Grafter” was eighteen minutes long on the full stage.
“The Grafter” is now in Chicago after a long run in the mid-west. It is a “slang comedy” in which Ernest Carr plays a dishonest politician. His niece falls in love with a young man who he soon finds stealing the family silverware.
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Raymond Smith and Garnett Raymond are a duo and perform songs. There are ten costumes changes, two of which occur during the “Beautiful Doll” number.
“A special drop shows a pretty bungalow with practical window and set lamp-post in front.”
The act was fourteen minutes long on the full stage.
Mr. Edwards plays a star pitcher on a baseball team who agrees to throw a game for five thousand dollars to send to his ill mother. Doing so will lose his team the pennant. His sweetheart learns of his plan and convinces him not to do it, which incidentally earns him a loan to send to his mother anyway.
The sketch entitled “The Elopement” was twelve minutes long.
Miss Woolridge plays Mrs. James Montague, a woman who intends to divorce her husband to elope with her lover (played by Arvid Paulson). Her brother (played by H. G. Keenan) finds out and tells her husband. When the husband announces he is actually happy with the match and plans to vacation with another woman, his wife gets jealous and calls off the elopement.
The act was twelve minutes long on the full stage.
This male and female comedy team roller-skate and dance.
The sketch entitled “An All Night Session” was fourteen minutes long on the full stage.
William H. Lytell’s first foray into vaudeville has him acting as a father who pretends to be involved with the Masons. He shows his daughter Mabel’s (Catherine Husslam) husband (played by John McMahon) how to pretend to be a mason in order to stay out late playing poker without a scolding.
Ideal is a one-woman diving act who wears a red union suit.
Winsor McCay presents his moving pictures of drawings, which he manipulates into “quaint, humorous and interesting films.”
The act sings comic songs with the aid of a “plant” in the orchestra pit who wears a silver wig.
McKinley sings and is accompanied by a pianist.
