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Keith-Albee managers' report book, September 21, 1903 - March 14, 1904

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Criticism, Keith's Bijou, Phila., Nov. 30th, 1903.
STEREOPTICON: Usual collection of good views.
OZAV & DELMO: 3 shows; special backing representing a barroom with bar, full stage; 12 minutes; 2 men, one working as hobo, other as bartender. Comedy juggling; act rather old timey, but what they do they do well. Act went well for an opener, but on account of the bad quality of some of the other acts I have to shove it down on the bill. They try a little talking but it is very bad.
YACKLAY & BUNNELL: C.D.F. 3; 3 shows; 18 minutes; can close in one; 2 men, one straight other black face wearing eccentric clothes. The act is familiar to the circuit and is about as old timey as anything we play  The one feature of the act is the comedian's work on the musical bottles, for which he got a good solid encore. Their musical work is acceptable in their place on the bill. They too will have to drop down to a better place on the bill on account of the bad ones on the bill.
BESNAH & MILLER: 3 shows; 18 minutes all in one. song and dance and a few gags. Both neat dressers and acceptable singers of that style. Their dancing, however, was the best part of their act, and they went very well.
THE "FEMALE DRUMMER" QUARTETTE: C.D. 2 representing a dining-room with set. Work as four waiters. Four very ordinary singers who just hardly got by. 3 shows. 15 minutes.
THE CEBALLOS: 3 shows; full stage; 10 minutes. Boy and girl in a combination wire and acrobatic act. Their wire work is quite good but nothing extra, and their acrobatic work just fair. A nice little act to open the show with, where it will go to-morrow.
JENNIE YEAMANS: Drapery in one; 12 minutes; 2 shows. Doing the same act she did the last time I saw her on the circuit. She caught the house very well, got plenty of laughs all through and went off to a very good hand.
FINLAY & BURKE: C.D. 3, close in one if necessary; 18 minutes; 2 shows. Man and woman in specialty sketch, full of gagging. Fairly good act that went very well, but entirely lacking in anything new either in their gags or songs, the strongest part of their act being "Nothing New" which I heard the first time the Bijou opened.
GEORGE H. WOOD: STREET in one; 25 minutes; 2 shows. In what I think is the best monologue I ever heard him give. He had the people from the start, had plenty of laughs, and got a good solid recall for his encore, the encore being the one thing that was old in the act and which consisted of the short poems that he has been delivering for some time.
THE NAWNS: Their own set in 3; in "Pat and the Genii" 27 minutes; 2 shows. The act went very well notwithstanding the fact that many of our audience were familiar enough with it to prompt them, if they needed it.

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90 Criticism, Keith's Bijou, Phila., Nov. 30th, 1903. STEREOPTICON: Usual collection of good views. OZAV & DELMO: 3 shows; special backing representing a barroom with bar, full stage; 12 minutes; 2 men, one working as hobo, other as bartender. Comedy juggling; act rather old timey, but what they do they do well. Act went well for an opener, but on account of the bad quality of some of the other acts I have to shove it down on the bill. They try a little talking but it is very bad. YACKLAY & BUNNELL: C.D.F. 3; 3 shows; 18 minutes; can close in one; 2 men, one straight other black face wearing eccentric clothes. The act is familiar to the circuit and is about as old timey as anything we play The one feature of the act is the comedian's work on the musical bottles, for which he got a good solid encore. Their musical work is acceptable in their place on the bill. They too will have to drop down to a better place on the bill on account of the bad ones on the bill. BESNAH & MILLER: 3 shows; 18 minutes all in one. song and dance and a few gags. Both neat dressers and acceptable singers of that style. Their dancing, however, was the best part of their act, and they went very well. THE "FEMALE DRUMMER" QUARTETTE: C.D. 2 representing a dining-room with set. Work as four waiters. Four very ordinary singers who just hardly got by. 3 shows. 15 minutes. THE CEBALLOS: 3 shows; full stage; 10 minutes. Boy and girl in a combination wire and acrobatic act. Their wire work is quite good but nothing extra, and their acrobatic work just fair. A nice little act to open the show with, where it will go to-morrow. JENNIE YEAMANS: Drapery in one; 12 minutes; 2 shows. Doing the same act she did the last time I saw her on the circuit. She caught the house very well, got plenty of laughs all through and went off to a very good hand. FINLAY & BURKE: C.D. 3, close in one if necessary; 18 minutes; 2 shows. Man and woman in specialty sketch, full of gagging. Fairly good act that went very well, but entirely lacking in anything new either in their gags or songs, the strongest part of their act being "Nothing New" which I heard the first time the Bijou opened. GEORGE H. WOOD: STREET in one; 25 minutes; 2 shows. In what I think is the best monologue I ever heard him give. He had the people from the start, had plenty of laughs, and got a good solid recall for his encore, the encore being the one thing that was old in the act and which consisted of the short poems that he has been delivering for some time. THE NAWNS: Their own set in 3; in "Pat and the Genii" 27 minutes; 2 shows. The act went very well notwithstanding the fact that many of our audience were familiar enough with it to prompt them, if they needed it.