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Keith-Albee managers' report book, September 21, 1903 - March 14, 1904
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64 Criticism, Keith's Bijou, Phila., Nov. 9th, 1903. STEREOPTICON: Usual collection of slides. EDDIE DE VEAUX: Garden in 4, close in 2 8 mins; 2 mins in one. Acrobatic tramp; his work is conventional, but is well executed; barrel jumping is good, and closed him to good and general applause, making a most satisfactory opening act. He closed in one to day to enable us to set Lawson and Namon'a scene, but prefers to do his closing trick in two. 3 shows. LAWSON & NAMON: Farm landscape in 4; 13 minutes; comedy bicycling and bag punching; man working as tramp with a very nice appearing woman in an act but little changed from their recent appearances here, but which went exceptionally well to-day, the woman doing the bag punching and doing just about enough to interest and enthuse the audience with the result that they went better than they probably have ever gone in this house before. 3 shows. MORTIMER BASSETT: Mimic. Drop in one; 12 minutes. Some of Bassett's imitations are really clever, but nothing that he did seemed to appeal to the audience to-day, with the possible exception of the barn yard serenade, which only served to carry him off to a fair hand. Turns of this description are simply of no value in this house, except to give time to set other scenes by. 3 shows. PELOT, Kid Juggler: Wood in 4; 15 minutes, 5 minutes in one. A fair juggling act, helped along by the rapid fire talk with which the young man accompanies it. His fruit-fork-catching act to-day was a farce, he catching but one apple of all that were thrown at him, but some were thrown so swiftly that it served to put the audience in unusually good humor and carried him off to a big hand, which was somewhat deadened, however, by the necessity of having him do some work in one. He however, did some fairly clever acrobatic work and earned a fair hand for this. 3 shows. THE USHERS in "Tough Love," termed "A Slang Classic." Own set in 2; 23 minutes. An act modeled somewhat after those done by Williams and Tucker, and to a certain degree the young lady's voice resembles that of Eva Williams, but there the resemblance ceases. The acting is most amateurish, the talk dull and uninteresting, and it fell dead on our audience to-day, but on the close they received a very fair hand, which I attribute as much to sympathy as to anything else. They will open our show the rest of the week, as in this position they wet blanket everything that follows them. 3 shows. Winona & Banks Winter: C.D.F., closing in one. A faint suspicion of a reception on their entrance. The act has not been changed any since its recent trip over the circuit, and considering its age and the old songs rendered, it went unusually well. Miss Winter's ventriloquial specialty at the close carried them off strong, and earned them a recall. 2 shows. WILFRED CLARKE & CO: C.D.F. 18 minutes. In their sketch, "In the Biograph." A slapstick sort of a sketch, cleverly acted by Clarke and Miss Goodridge. They caught the audience with almost the first line, and roars of laughter greeted every scene. There is plenty of action in the piece, and it does not lag for a single instant, with the result that the close was greeted with storms of applause and hearty and general
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64 Criticism, Keith's Bijou, Phila., Nov. 9th, 1903. STEREOPTICON: Usual collection of slides. EDDIE DE VEAUX: Garden in 4, close in 2 8 mins; 2 mins in one. Acrobatic tramp; his work is conventional, but is well executed; barrel jumping is good, and closed him to good and general applause, making a most satisfactory opening act. He closed in one to day to enable us to set Lawson and Namon'a scene, but prefers to do his closing trick in two. 3 shows. LAWSON & NAMON: Farm landscape in 4; 13 minutes; comedy bicycling and bag punching; man working as tramp with a very nice appearing woman in an act but little changed from their recent appearances here, but which went exceptionally well to-day, the woman doing the bag punching and doing just about enough to interest and enthuse the audience with the result that they went better than they probably have ever gone in this house before. 3 shows. MORTIMER BASSETT: Mimic. Drop in one; 12 minutes. Some of Bassett's imitations are really clever, but nothing that he did seemed to appeal to the audience to-day, with the possible exception of the barn yard serenade, which only served to carry him off to a fair hand. Turns of this description are simply of no value in this house, except to give time to set other scenes by. 3 shows. PELOT, Kid Juggler: Wood in 4; 15 minutes, 5 minutes in one. A fair juggling act, helped along by the rapid fire talk with which the young man accompanies it. His fruit-fork-catching act to-day was a farce, he catching but one apple of all that were thrown at him, but some were thrown so swiftly that it served to put the audience in unusually good humor and carried him off to a big hand, which was somewhat deadened, however, by the necessity of having him do some work in one. He however, did some fairly clever acrobatic work and earned a fair hand for this. 3 shows. THE USHERS in "Tough Love," termed "A Slang Classic." Own set in 2; 23 minutes. An act modeled somewhat after those done by Williams and Tucker, and to a certain degree the young lady's voice resembles that of Eva Williams, but there the resemblance ceases. The acting is most amateurish, the talk dull and uninteresting, and it fell dead on our audience to-day, but on the close they received a very fair hand, which I attribute as much to sympathy as to anything else. They will open our show the rest of the week, as in this position they wet blanket everything that follows them. 3 shows. Winona & Banks Winter: C.D.F., closing in one. A faint suspicion of a reception on their entrance. The act has not been changed any since its recent trip over the circuit, and considering its age and the old songs rendered, it went unusually well. Miss Winter's ventriloquial specialty at the close carried them off strong, and earned them a recall. 2 shows. WILFRED CLARKE & CO: C.D.F. 18 minutes. In their sketch, "In the Biograph." A slapstick sort of a sketch, cleverly acted by Clarke and Miss Goodridge. They caught the audience with almost the first line, and roars of laughter greeted every scene. There is plenty of action in the piece, and it does not lag for a single instant, with the result that the close was greeted with storms of applause and hearty and general
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