In “Holiday’s Dream.” 24 minutes fs. Special set. This act is twenty-four minutes of dancing and pantomime, and this should be taken into consideration in booking around it. The diving is merely incidental. There is classical dancing, toe dancing, dances of all nations, and the tango. There was dancing in six acts preceding Miss Macomber to-day, and although this did not seem to hurt her, it certainly did not help. After her Monday afternoon performance, the advance sale started, and it looks like a record week.
“The vacuum Cleaner.” 18 minutes fs. Interior. This is a very funny rough comedy with Rolland, his helper, “Mike,” and a prop horse that invades a lady’s drawing room, wagon and all. Kept the audience in an uproar. A great act for this spot.
“Into the Light.” 19 min. This young girl has just returned from a long stay in Europe and is repeating the same protean playlet that she used the last time she appeared in this country. It tells a story of murder and Miss Parry assumes five different characters appearing as witnesses in the trial and the climax discloses that it is all a dream. The final character gives Miss Parry an excellent chance to display her dramatic ability and the sketch was well received.
23 min. “The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row.” This one-act playlet is the condensation of the three-act play by the same title and taken from the novel of the same name. It is rather talky in construction and lacks action, depending entirely upon the principal character of a girl stenographer and the epigrams and slang phrases she uses in bringing happiness out of a business romance. It held fairly good attention here and was given a liberal hand of applause at the finish.
Dramatic playlet, two ladies, two men. 14 min. Full stage. Some portions appear to be better than others, the episode depicting the poor marriage being quite the best incident of the entire playlet. This episode finds more favor with the audience than the remaining portions, and even then they seem only mildly interested. The acting in all cases is particularly good.
Songs and dances, two ladies, one man. 10 min. (1). Singing is a weak caliber, and it is only in the dancing that they accomplish much in an entertaining way, and even this portion is not of an extraordinary nature.
Art reproductions, 17 min. Full stage, spec set. For beauty approaching gorgeousness as to scenic investiture and all that makes for true artistry the act is the most stupendous and brilliant affair ever offered in local showdom [sic]. But their reception was not quite so enthusiastic as I had hoped for. There was some applause of course, but nothing equal to what the act deserves. It was but a repetition of past history as regards all posing acts, as reference to my report on the recent visitation of Larodoe’s Models In Marble will readily disclose. Most of our patrons know little or nothing of art, ancient, medieval, or modern, and they refuse to learn.
19 minutes fs. Palace. Doing the billiard table stunt, the choking of Weber by Fields, and the smashing of the fiddle borrowed from the orchestra loader. A laughing hit.
Eight girls and two men. Act works in full stage special act. Two scenes act runs 22 min. Songs dances and comedy by men. Girls dress very pretty making two or three changes. Act went fair.
10 minutes, full stage. All in all, quite a clever performance, and audience manifested its approval by frequent applause. The elephant is undeniably clever, the pony and dogs being no more than is usually seen, and act will undoubtedly score here owing to gratuity of the owners in assisting in the special peanut show which will take with the youngsters and the children are good advertisors [sic] in a case like this.
