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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 3-November 3, 1913
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PITTSBURGH, PA. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. SEPT. 29th, 1913. BILLY "SWEDE" HALL & CO. Full stage, special setting, 24 minutes. Comedy Protean Oddity entitled, "Made Good." The act is too long drawn out and the action entirely too slow for modern vaudeville. Nevertheless, Mr. Hall gives several good personations and has an acceptable foil in Miss Jennie Colburn. The act should be pruned to 15 or 18 min. It was not in our bill after the afternoon performance. In order to improve the playing quality of our show, we asked Mr. Hall to open the performance. He absolutely refused to do so and left the theatre shortly before the curtain rang up for the evening performance. SPENCER & WILLIAMS. 11 min. in One. Singing, dancing and talking. This is just a fair act, but will get by as No. 2 in most any bill. AMELIA STONE and ARMAND KALISZ 39 min., full stage, special setting. An opera bouffe entitled, "Mon Desir." Played by six people. There is no license at all for this act to get by. Several clever people go through an absolutely inane dialogue and sing insipid songs. The whole thing smacks of an old French farce, so exaggerated as to be childish and suggesting that it has been hacked together with no appreciation of the fact that vaudeville audience of to-day are composed mostly of intelligent people, who expect to be entertained in a mature way. STEPP, GOODRICH & KING. 14 minutes in One. Piano, Banjo and Ragtime sung by three young men. This is a rousing good act, but I am rather inclined to feel that the blonde young man at the piano carries his feminine personation to a point beyond what may commonly be considered good taste. One number of this sort instead of three, in my judgment, would improve the act. PAUL KLEIST. 11 minutes- full stage. In "The Land of Dreams." This is a real musical and black art novelty. Mr. Kleist is doing the best act of his career. In spite of its age, with respect to some of the tricks, it is one of the genuine hits of our bill. GOULD & ASHLYN. 12 minutes in One. Songs and Sayings. A very neat little act and Miss Ashlyn is, without a doubt, the cleverest girl Mr. Gould has had. SAM MANN & CO. 28 minutes - full stage. In "The New Leader." Mr. Mann is an excellent character comedian of quiet, natural and ingenuous methods. He is certainly artistic as well as the laugh-hit of this bill. SOPHIE TUCKER. 22 minutes in One, with piano accompanist. Miss Tucker is a rough, blatant "coon shouter," with the accent on the "shout." Nevertheless, yesterday afternoon she had our audience wild with delight and they demanded encore after encore. She sang ten numbers. The applause seemed sincere and hearty. In the evening Miss Tucker rather badly bungled her "stall" of singing any song called by the audience, by singing a number not asked for by the audience and unknown to them. She didn't get away with this, and closed rather tamely. STEINER TRIO. 7 minutes. Full stage. Comedy bar, doing practically the same things as the Camille Trio, but not doing them so well or so fast. MOVING PICTURES. Pathe Weekly. N.B. - Four acts in our show this week refer to "September Morn." This is growing very tiresome because of its reiteration every week, so we cut it out of all of them.
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PITTSBURGH, PA. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. SEPT. 29th, 1913. BILLY "SWEDE" HALL & CO. Full stage, special setting, 24 minutes. Comedy Protean Oddity entitled, "Made Good." The act is too long drawn out and the action entirely too slow for modern vaudeville. Nevertheless, Mr. Hall gives several good personations and has an acceptable foil in Miss Jennie Colburn. The act should be pruned to 15 or 18 min. It was not in our bill after the afternoon performance. In order to improve the playing quality of our show, we asked Mr. Hall to open the performance. He absolutely refused to do so and left the theatre shortly before the curtain rang up for the evening performance. SPENCER & WILLIAMS. 11 min. in One. Singing, dancing and talking. This is just a fair act, but will get by as No. 2 in most any bill. AMELIA STONE and ARMAND KALISZ 39 min., full stage, special setting. An opera bouffe entitled, "Mon Desir." Played by six people. There is no license at all for this act to get by. Several clever people go through an absolutely inane dialogue and sing insipid songs. The whole thing smacks of an old French farce, so exaggerated as to be childish and suggesting that it has been hacked together with no appreciation of the fact that vaudeville audience of to-day are composed mostly of intelligent people, who expect to be entertained in a mature way. STEPP, GOODRICH & KING. 14 minutes in One. Piano, Banjo and Ragtime sung by three young men. This is a rousing good act, but I am rather inclined to feel that the blonde young man at the piano carries his feminine personation to a point beyond what may commonly be considered good taste. One number of this sort instead of three, in my judgment, would improve the act. PAUL KLEIST. 11 minutes- full stage. In "The Land of Dreams." This is a real musical and black art novelty. Mr. Kleist is doing the best act of his career. In spite of its age, with respect to some of the tricks, it is one of the genuine hits of our bill. GOULD & ASHLYN. 12 minutes in One. Songs and Sayings. A very neat little act and Miss Ashlyn is, without a doubt, the cleverest girl Mr. Gould has had. SAM MANN & CO. 28 minutes - full stage. In "The New Leader." Mr. Mann is an excellent character comedian of quiet, natural and ingenuous methods. He is certainly artistic as well as the laugh-hit of this bill. SOPHIE TUCKER. 22 minutes in One, with piano accompanist. Miss Tucker is a rough, blatant "coon shouter," with the accent on the "shout." Nevertheless, yesterday afternoon she had our audience wild with delight and they demanded encore after encore. She sang ten numbers. The applause seemed sincere and hearty. In the evening Miss Tucker rather badly bungled her "stall" of singing any song called by the audience, by singing a number not asked for by the audience and unknown to them. She didn't get away with this, and closed rather tamely. STEINER TRIO. 7 minutes. Full stage. Comedy bar, doing practically the same things as the Camille Trio, but not doing them so well or so fast. MOVING PICTURES. Pathe Weekly. N.B. - Four acts in our show this week refer to "September Morn." This is growing very tiresome because of its reiteration every week, so we cut it out of all of them.
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