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Keith-Albee managers' report book, April 30, 1906 - February 4, 1907, part 1
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170 Cleveland Show Week Nov. 19, 1906. (H. A. Daniels) COMMENT-- We have a show this week that starts off well and increases in volume and interest right up to the last act - when it falls all to pieces and sends every one home disappointed and with a bad taste in the mouth. Manning's entertainers is travelling in altogether too fast company, when it runs up against Julian Rose, Mr. & Mrs. Gardner Crane, and The Empire Comedy Four. The contrast is so great that all the good impression the previous show has given is lost with one fell swoop. THE HOLDSWORTHS-- Boy and girl. Singing dancing and banjo playing. The girl's voice needs attention. The dancing and banjo playing carry the act. Responded to two curtains. Drop in one. 15 min. MR & MRS. ALLISON-- Character skit, "Minnie From Minnesota" This act is well known, Mrs. Allison taking the character of the Swedish servant girl. The act went well today and received a great deal of sincere applause. C.D.F. in three. 16 min. Close in one. FREDO & DARE-- Two new faces in Cleveland. this is a comedy musical act. One man works straight and the other black face. This is an exceptionally good act of the kind when the price is considered. The comedy is very good. The music fair, and there is a great deal of novelty in the act. The audience this afternoon liked it immensely. C.D.F. in three, close in one 10 minutes. CONN & CONRAD-- Comedy sketch "The Quiet Burglar" which but serves to introduce the revolving pole on the swinging trapeze. This is the third sketch in succession that has worked in an interior, which is a bad arrangement. This is a good act but on account of its height from the floor it cannot be seen in the last six rows of our orchestra seats. The work of the boys on the revolving pole was greeted with roars of laughter and hearty applause. C.D.F. in three, 11 minutes. EMPIRE COMEDY FOUR-- This comedy quartette is too well known for extended comment. They came with a rush and after working 21 minutes they had a mighty hard time to get off. The audience wanted more of it. Drop in one. 21 minutes. MR. & MRS. GARDNER CRANE-- Protean farce "Everybody's Up." The act has been described in detail in the other houses. It went very well this afternoon and in two instances the character work of Mrs. Crane was liberally applauded. We expected a great deal of the act, and were not disappointed. Interior in four. 29 minutes. JULIAN ROSE-- Monologue entitled "Levinsky at The Wedding" The hit of the show. Drop in one. 20 minutes. MANNING'S ENTERTAINERS-- This act crabbed the whole show. Everything was going lovely and the audience was worked up to a pitch where they would have gone home and sworn that the show was the best they had ever seen, when all of a sudden without any warning this afternoon this affair looms up and every man left the house disgusted. The key to the whole situation is that the act is altogether too swift company. In a continuous house they might run along about eight o'clock and be considered good, but when they run up against a show like we have this week, the comparison makes the act look like a "shine". Special hotel set (which conflicted with the Gardner Crane set) in four. 12 min KINETOGRAPH-- The Show ran so late pictures were cut out
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170 Cleveland Show Week Nov. 19, 1906. (H. A. Daniels) COMMENT-- We have a show this week that starts off well and increases in volume and interest right up to the last act - when it falls all to pieces and sends every one home disappointed and with a bad taste in the mouth. Manning's entertainers is travelling in altogether too fast company, when it runs up against Julian Rose, Mr. & Mrs. Gardner Crane, and The Empire Comedy Four. The contrast is so great that all the good impression the previous show has given is lost with one fell swoop. THE HOLDSWORTHS-- Boy and girl. Singing dancing and banjo playing. The girl's voice needs attention. The dancing and banjo playing carry the act. Responded to two curtains. Drop in one. 15 min. MR & MRS. ALLISON-- Character skit, "Minnie From Minnesota" This act is well known, Mrs. Allison taking the character of the Swedish servant girl. The act went well today and received a great deal of sincere applause. C.D.F. in three. 16 min. Close in one. FREDO & DARE-- Two new faces in Cleveland. this is a comedy musical act. One man works straight and the other black face. This is an exceptionally good act of the kind when the price is considered. The comedy is very good. The music fair, and there is a great deal of novelty in the act. The audience this afternoon liked it immensely. C.D.F. in three, close in one 10 minutes. CONN & CONRAD-- Comedy sketch "The Quiet Burglar" which but serves to introduce the revolving pole on the swinging trapeze. This is the third sketch in succession that has worked in an interior, which is a bad arrangement. This is a good act but on account of its height from the floor it cannot be seen in the last six rows of our orchestra seats. The work of the boys on the revolving pole was greeted with roars of laughter and hearty applause. C.D.F. in three, 11 minutes. EMPIRE COMEDY FOUR-- This comedy quartette is too well known for extended comment. They came with a rush and after working 21 minutes they had a mighty hard time to get off. The audience wanted more of it. Drop in one. 21 minutes. MR. & MRS. GARDNER CRANE-- Protean farce "Everybody's Up." The act has been described in detail in the other houses. It went very well this afternoon and in two instances the character work of Mrs. Crane was liberally applauded. We expected a great deal of the act, and were not disappointed. Interior in four. 29 minutes. JULIAN ROSE-- Monologue entitled "Levinsky at The Wedding" The hit of the show. Drop in one. 20 minutes. MANNING'S ENTERTAINERS-- This act crabbed the whole show. Everything was going lovely and the audience was worked up to a pitch where they would have gone home and sworn that the show was the best they had ever seen, when all of a sudden without any warning this afternoon this affair looms up and every man left the house disgusted. The key to the whole situation is that the act is altogether too swift company. In a continuous house they might run along about eight o'clock and be considered good, but when they run up against a show like we have this week, the comparison makes the act look like a "shine". Special hotel set (which conflicted with the Gardner Crane set) in four. 12 min KINETOGRAPH-- The Show ran so late pictures were cut out
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