Three Bohemians
The act was fourteen minutes long.
The Three Bohemians are similar to the Three Vagrants in makeup. They play the guitar, violin, and accordion. None are talented enough to be soloists.
After the Matinee
Desmond and Bailey
Wallace’s Cockatoos
The act was eighteen minutes long.
Wallace performs with his trained cockatoos. The featured “White Eagle” cockatoo is well-trained and performs without incident.
Tom Barry and Co.
The act was twenty minutes long.
Tom Barry plays a messenger boy who has a dream about his idolized boy-detective hero, Nick Carter. In the dream, Nick Carter is defeated and Barry’s character “denounces dime novels forever.”
James Edwards and Co.
Mae West and Girard Bros.
The act ran for ten minutes.
Mae West is now trying out a vaudeville show with the Girard Brothers, who were in the Follies Bergere show on Broadway.
Miss West wears a “nifty harem outfit” and works hard. A cold prevented her from doing her best work, but she is “a lively piece of femininity.”
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).
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.
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.