Yvette
Yvette is a young violinist.
Bertha Kalish and Co.
The sketch entitled “A Light From St. Agnes” was twenty-four minutes long.
Bertha Kalish plays a french prostitute in Louisiana who is converted by a priest named Father Bertund (played by John Booth). He tells her the story of the light of St. Agnes. Her drunk lover then threatens to cut the gems off the statue of St. Agnes in the nearby chapel. Kalish’s character tries to stop him and is strangled and stabbed to death.
Mabel DeYoung
This “Pianalog” act ran for nine minutes.
DeYoung sings the “regulation published songs” with a pleasing voice. She plays the piano and sings for two out of her four songs.
Louise La Gai and Co.
The pantomime entitled “The Tragic Rehearsal” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Louise La Gai performs a dance in which she is thought to be nude under a loose fitting leopard skin. “It is very effective, and the effect is obtained, it is said, by a Parisian suit of tights, champagne colored, which has toes.”
La Gai does some toe work in a picturesque setting with her three assistants (among which A. Romeo stands out).
Chretienne and Louisette
The act ran for twenty-two minutes on the full stage.
The act entitled “Klaus and Trins” opens with a film which shows the couple performing on the street in their native Holland. Some Americans see them and offer them a place on the vaudeville stage. A chase from Holland to New York ensues and when the film ends the couple runs onstage.
The woman performs as Italian, French, Spanish, and English girls and the man conducts the orchestra in the pit.
The pair finish with a wooden shoe dance.
The costumes and makeup are well done.
Van Brunt and Moore
The act was nineteen minutes long.
Moore is a “stout jovial young man” who plays the piano with a unique method of delivery and has considerable stage presence.
Van Brunt is “a youthful Joe Howard and Andrew Mack rolled into one.” His stage presence will also help him significantly in the future.
Vedder and Morgan
The act was sixteen minutes long.
The sketch focuses on a young millionaire whose father has left him in charge of his mills. One of the mills then goes on strike. The millionaire then runs over a young woman on his way home on a stormy night and fails to stop. A suffragette who is allied with the mill blackmails the young man, and insists that she will reveal his crime if he does not call off the strike. He does.
Berzac’s “Riding Academy”
The act was twenty-one minutes long on the full stage.
In his new comedy act, Cliff Berzac used a “mechanic”, which is a pole that holds a horse-rider into place as they ride around the ring in a circus. Berzac acts as the “riding instructor” and uses this mechanic for comedy. He attaches supposedly inexperienced riders to the mechanic where an “unridable mule” proceeds to bounce them around. Cliff also rides a horse around barebacked.
Trovato
Trovato performed songs on the violin for twenty five minutes next to closing.
Nellie V. Nichols
She sings imitations of songs performed by Bayes, Cecil Lean, and Fay Templeton.
“Nellie looked just a trifle plumper than in the days when she led the ‘Minstrel Misses’ atop of the New York Roof.”