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Keith-Albee manager reports, September 2, 1902 - September 3, 1903

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James Mooney and Ida Holbein, 20 min. open full stage, close in 1 -- In a mixture of singing, dancing, acrobatic and musical specialties. From a 3-a-day standpoint, it just got by.
Lew Wells, 16 min. full stage, close in 1 -- Monologue comedian, with musical novelties, who went very well in a trying place in the programme. Put him in to fill the place made vacant by the failure of the Darrows to appear.
Carleton and Terre, 15 min. in 1 -- Conversational and singing comedians, doing a very fair act. Food for an early place on the bill, say 2 and 8 p.m.
Comments:- I have been up against some hair-raising Mondays during the past 2 years, but today was the limit. La Belle Blanch turned up first, and I did not know whose place she was to take. Later it transpired that she was here in place of Howe and Scott, and she proved to be a winner.
Then Mr. and Mrs. Darrow did not turn up, and I have heard nothing from them to date. All their billings, etc., had been in hand for weeks.
William and Tucker did not show up, and at 1,30 p.m., just as the show started, I got a telegram from them saying that on account of billing they could not afford to play here. This in the face of the fact that I had nothing else but them in the Saturday papers, had her picture in all three Sunday papers, getting cuts made at my own expense, and gave them pracrically all the reading not devoted to Thurston, and head of one the columns in the Sunday advertisement, was the absolute limit. Then not to notify me until the show started. I immediately called up Mr. Cronan and told him to proceed against them and a warrant was issued, but up to date we have not been able to catch him. She said he was advised to do this by Jake Rosenthal, who is to be his manager next season, and that he had left for New York as soon as he sent me the telegram. I have done a few things wiht them in the morning papers, and I mean to do more. They got their first big boost here, and as I wrote him, he is a contemptible cad to so treat the Keith house that made him. We made a bad mistake in allowing them to dictate their position on the bill to us at the time of their last engagement. There is no team in this business we cannot better afford to do without than to allow to dictate to us and go over the country telling about it.

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James Mooney and Ida Holbein, 20 min. open full stage, close in 1 -- In a mixture of singing, dancing, acrobatic and musical specialties. From a 3-a-day standpoint, it just got by. Lew Wells, 16 min. full stage, close in 1 -- Monologue comedian, with musical novelties, who went very well in a trying place in the programme. Put him in to fill the place made vacant by the failure of the Darrows to appear. Carleton and Terre, 15 min. in 1 -- Conversational and singing comedians, doing a very fair act. Food for an early place on the bill, say 2 and 8 p.m. Comments:- I have been up against some hair-raising Mondays during the past 2 years, but today was the limit. La Belle Blanch turned up first, and I did not know whose place she was to take. Later it transpired that she was here in place of Howe and Scott, and she proved to be a winner. Then Mr. and Mrs. Darrow did not turn up, and I have heard nothing from them to date. All their billings, etc., had been in hand for weeks. William and Tucker did not show up, and at 1,30 p.m., just as the show started, I got a telegram from them saying that on account of billing they could not afford to play here. This in the face of the fact that I had nothing else but them in the Saturday papers, had her picture in all three Sunday papers, getting cuts made at my own expense, and gave them pracrically all the reading not devoted to Thurston, and head of one the columns in the Sunday advertisement, was the absolute limit. Then not to notify me until the show started. I immediately called up Mr. Cronan and told him to proceed against them and a warrant was issued, but up to date we have not been able to catch him. She said he was advised to do this by Jake Rosenthal, who is to be his manager next season, and that he had left for New York as soon as he sent me the telegram. I have done a few things wiht them in the morning papers, and I mean to do more. They got their first big boost here, and as I wrote him, he is a contemptible cad to so treat the Keith house that made him. We made a bad mistake in allowing them to dictate their position on the bill to us at the time of their last engagement. There is no team in this business we cannot better afford to do without than to allow to dictate to us and go over the country telling about it.