This oil painting act was eleven minutes long.
Two men paint exterior scenes in oil on transparent easels so that the audience can see their progress. For the finale, the two men come together to paint a picture of a farm house in a snowstorm.
The act was sixteen minutes long on the main stage.
The man wears a false “Vandyke” beard and opens the act with some comedic talk. He talks as he works with the clay while the woman models one piece and prepares the clay for the man throughout the rest of the act.
Quick rapidly
draws, giving to his sketches a touch
of caricature which provides the comedy;
sometimes genuine, as for instance, a drawing,
which could have been labeled “Roosevelt
in Africa.” Mr. Quick seems to draw
upon the board as though sketching for
a newspaper cut. It does very well. The
larger part of his other sketches were
illustrating song titles (which he did not
announce), while the orchestra played the
airs.
Kajiyama is a Japanese handwriting expert, who interjects comedy into his routine.
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Hirsch is a cartoonist who works with colored pencils and has an African American assistant who he draws. He and his assistant attempt some comedy “comments” during the act.
“It consists of painting in colors with unusual rapidity a couple of pictures on transparencies through which electric lights are projected, which illuminate his work in a new way.”
The act opened the show and occupied eight minutes.
The man wears makeup to appear as an old man with an eccentric nose and the woman performs as a shy young girl.
They create double cartoons with colored crayons.
The act was twelve minutes long.
He works upon a small glass plate, the pictures being thrown upon a screen by means of a reflecting light. Every line is easily discernible. Besides the black and white effects the artist works in colors, lending a variety lacking in other acts of this character.
The stage is neatly set to represent an artist’s studio, Levy helping out the effect by his own dressing.
