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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 14, 1904 - November 21, 1904

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ropes, instead of rings. Went big, as acts of this description do with Boston audiences.
Biograph, 3 shows, 20 min. in 1 -- Probably the most unsatisfactory lot of pictures we have had for a long time, there not being an applause winner among them.
TenBrookes and Lambert, 2 shows, 20 min. open full stage close in 1 -- First time here in a comedy, musical and vocal sketch "Prof. Schmalz's Academy." It is really too good an act to waste in such a position in the afternoon bill, but we are forced to do it because of a confliction of other material. Lambert is probably the best violinist who has ever been heard in vaudeville, and is likewise an exceptionally brilliant piano player. In fact, he is too clever a man to be wasting his talents in a sketch of this kind. At night they will be down next to the Welsons, who will precede the biograph, which closes the show.
Sisters DeVan, 3 shows, 8 min. in 3 -- An aerial acrobatic act, one of the "sisters" being a man, who supports a ladder, upon which his wife performs the equilibristic feats made familiar by Japanese performers. Went well.
Comment-- The show suffers because there is too much similar material in it. For instance, TenBrookes and Lambert are wasted in a bill with the Fadettes, as their music is really the hit of the act; or, if they were put in another place, their singing would be overshadowed by that of The Village Choir. Otherwise the show is fairly satisfactory.

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68 ropes, instead of rings. Went big, as acts of this description do with Boston audiences. Biograph, 3 shows, 20 min. in 1 -- Probably the most unsatisfactory lot of pictures we have had for a long time, there not being an applause winner among them. TenBrookes and Lambert, 2 shows, 20 min. open full stage close in 1 -- First time here in a comedy, musical and vocal sketch "Prof. Schmalz's Academy." It is really too good an act to waste in such a position in the afternoon bill, but we are forced to do it because of a confliction of other material. Lambert is probably the best violinist who has ever been heard in vaudeville, and is likewise an exceptionally brilliant piano player. In fact, he is too clever a man to be wasting his talents in a sketch of this kind. At night they will be down next to the Welsons, who will precede the biograph, which closes the show. Sisters DeVan, 3 shows, 8 min. in 3 -- An aerial acrobatic act, one of the "sisters" being a man, who supports a ladder, upon which his wife performs the equilibristic feats made familiar by Japanese performers. Went well. Comment-- The show suffers because there is too much similar material in it. For instance, TenBrookes and Lambert are wasted in a bill with the Fadettes, as their music is really the hit of the act; or, if they were put in another place, their singing would be overshadowed by that of The Village Choir. Otherwise the show is fairly satisfactory.