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

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Keith's Bijou Criticism, #2 -- Nov. 30th/03.
SHANNON & BROWN: Street in one, 11 minutes: 3 shows. About as shine a Dutch act I have ever had the misfortune to witness. Their talk is cheap and their act scarcely fit for the house. I have changed them from their position of next to last to next from first. They did not get a laugh in the whole act and scarcely even the courtesy hand at the finish.
BAILEY & MADISON: Full stage; 11 minutes; 2 shows. In their old comedy acrobatic act which will be all right up about 6 or 7 on the bill, as it is a closing act unsuitable for the place. The act is very much overpaid and very rough. The one thing that redeems it being the very little tumbling that one of them introduces into the act.
BIOGRAPH: A just fair collection of views.
REMARKS: The show on the whole is about as unsatisfactory as any we have had since the house opened, and the audience was dead under it. It will be absolutely impossible to do any business with such a show as this, and the people to-day showed their very evident dissatisfaction with it.
I hope to improve the show somewhat by switching it all around, but it looks hopeless.

P.F. Nash.

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90 Keith's Bijou Criticism, #2 -- Nov. 30th/03. SHANNON & BROWN: Street in one, 11 minutes: 3 shows. About as shine a Dutch act I have ever had the misfortune to witness. Their talk is cheap and their act scarcely fit for the house. I have changed them from their position of next to last to next from first. They did not get a laugh in the whole act and scarcely even the courtesy hand at the finish. BAILEY & MADISON: Full stage; 11 minutes; 2 shows. In their old comedy acrobatic act which will be all right up about 6 or 7 on the bill, as it is a closing act unsuitable for the place. The act is very much overpaid and very rough. The one thing that redeems it being the very little tumbling that one of them introduces into the act. BIOGRAPH: A just fair collection of views. REMARKS: The show on the whole is about as unsatisfactory as any we have had since the house opened, and the audience was dead under it. It will be absolutely impossible to do any business with such a show as this, and the people to-day showed their very evident dissatisfaction with it. I hope to improve the show somewhat by switching it all around, but it looks hopeless. P.F. Nash.