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

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New York Show, Week of August 31, 1903--2

YHR 2--FRANK BUSH. Bush made a tremendous hit this afternoon and introduced a lot of entirely new material. The audience laughed incessantly, and I think it was freer from coarseness than I have ever seen his act. 19 minutes in one.

ARR.--2--ROBERT HILLIARD.--In his new act entitled "No. 973," introducing Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Holland, the author of the act, one other man in a small part, and a little girl. There is a very interesting little story connected with the piece and while I don't think that it gives Hilliard as good an opportunity as he had in "The Littlest Girl," it is still a relief from that act. It is, of course, well played, as anything that Hilliard had anything to do with is bound to be, and it gives the little girl a much better opportunity than it does anybody else on account of the sympathy. She is a very talented little actress. The whole act went very nicely and the stage setting was excellent. 27 minutes, full stage.

GYH. 2--GRACE LA RUE AND PICKANINNIES.--Miss La Rue has a couple of very funny "coon" kids, and she has arranged her act so that they are the feature of it, which is a very wise move on her part as she could hardly carry an act alone. As it is, the act goes very strongly indeed, and they took two or three. curtain calls. 16 minutes in one.

YHR 2--LEWIS & RYAN.--In their new act, "Wireless Telegraphy." This is simply the old haunted house idea which has been produced minstrelsy ever since the origin of burnt cork performers, but Tom Lewis is certainly the funniest black comedian in a sketch that I know of, and I don't know that I ever heard an audience scream as loudly as they did at him this afternoon. It was a tremendous hit from start to finish. 19 minutes, full stage.

YYH--2--PAULINETTE & PIQUO[I?]--Two men in a comedy bar act; one made up straight and the other as a clown. Both are very clever bar performers and they finish their act with the invisible wire trick which never seems to grow old and is always good for a scream. 14 minutes, full stage.

HH. 3--BIOGRAPH.--The collection of views struck me as being only fair. 15 minutes in one.

S. K. HOGDON

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New York Show, Week of August 31, 1903--2 YHR 2--FRANK BUSH. Bush made a tremendous hit this afternoon and introduced a lot of entirely new material. The audience laughed incessantly, and I think it was freer from coarseness than I have ever seen his act. 19 minutes in one. ARR.--2--ROBERT HILLIARD.--In his new act entitled "No. 973," introducing Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Holland, the author of the act, one other man in a small part, and a little girl. There is a very interesting little story connected with the piece and while I don't think that it gives Hilliard as good an opportunity as he had in "The Littlest Girl," it is still a relief from that act. It is, of course, well played, as anything that Hilliard had anything to do with is bound to be, and it gives the little girl a much better opportunity than it does anybody else on account of the sympathy. She is a very talented little actress. The whole act went very nicely and the stage setting was excellent. 27 minutes, full stage. GYH. 2--GRACE LA RUE AND PICKANINNIES.--Miss La Rue has a couple of very funny "coon" kids, and she has arranged her act so that they are the feature of it, which is a very wise move on her part as she could hardly carry an act alone. As it is, the act goes very strongly indeed, and they took two or three. curtain calls. 16 minutes in one. YHR 2--LEWIS & RYAN.--In their new act, "Wireless Telegraphy." This is simply the old haunted house idea which has been produced minstrelsy ever since the origin of burnt cork performers, but Tom Lewis is certainly the funniest black comedian in a sketch that I know of, and I don't know that I ever heard an audience scream as loudly as they did at him this afternoon. It was a tremendous hit from start to finish. 19 minutes, full stage. YYH--2--PAULINETTE & PIQUO[I?]--Two men in a comedy bar act; one made up straight and the other as a clown. Both are very clever bar performers and they finish their act with the invisible wire trick which never seems to grow old and is always good for a scream. 14 minutes, full stage. HH. 3--BIOGRAPH.--The collection of views struck me as being only fair. 15 minutes in one. S. K. HOGDON