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Managers' report book, July 4, 1915-November 13, 1916
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H. T. JORDAN PHILADELPHIA SHOW NOV. 8, 1915. HEARST SELIG PICTURES. 14 min. A fairly interesting series of pictures with some very good war subjects. JOHNNY SINGER & ZIEGLER TWINS. 8 min. Boy and two girls in a very good dancing act of this kind, all three being excellent in their various lines of work, the boy especially so. They got a big hand in the opening spot. WHITFIELD-IRELAND & CO. 17 min. Two men and a girl, one man and woman, working in comedy makeup. Have some good rube talk and finished with eccentric dancing which brought them a good hand. Went very well. WERNER & AMOROS CO. 22 min. Four men, one dressed as a woman, in a high-class juggling and musical act. During the musical finish, a very good impersonation of Charlie Chaplin is done by one of the men, giving the act an excellent comedy finish. It scored a big hit. CRAIG CAMPBELL. 17 min. Payson Graham presents this distinguished tenor in a series of high-class vocal selections, including operatic and ballad number. Each number scored individually and he registered an emphatic hit. Hector MacCarthy at the piano played one number to liberal applause. This is an excellent musical offering which went very well. BRANDON HURST & CO. "The Girl." 21 min. A very well written dramatic playlet with a surprise finish and a comedy line on the final curtain. It was splendidly played by three men employed in the cast and was rewarded by a liberal hand of applause. CANTOR & LEE. 15 min. These boys put over a tremendous comedy hit with their snappy talk and songs, leaving the audience clamoring for more at the finish. NORA BAYES. 27 min. As radiant and attractive as ever with several new songs, some of her old ones and a medley of her best song hits, she had the audience applauding from the start to the finish of her act and at the close she was forced to come before the curtain and take several bows. LEW DOCKSTADER. 14 min. Following Nora Bayes was too hard a position for the veteran minstrel to hold with his long speech, but those who remained to listen to him sent him off with a fair-sized hand. His material is little changed from what he offered last year. BALZER SISTERS. 9 min. A very pretty aerial novelty by two attractive looking girls who hand by their teeth and swing around in showy evolutions. They enliven the act somewhat by playing musical instruments and furnished a good closing number. GENERAL REMARKS. This is Anniversary Week and the house being dressed in its winter garb with the beautiful crysanthemum show in the lobby presented a most inviting appearance. The show was fully up to expectations with a lot of good music, comedy and a couple of big applause hits and Nora Bayes, a name act, that went through flying, to set it off. Cantor & Lee, who were a tremendous hit, took Dockstader's place and Dockstader was moved up on the promise that he would cut the thirty-three minutes he did in Washington down to sixteen. CUTS BRANDON HURST & CO. Elimination of word "damn." CANTOR & LEE. Use of expression "For God's sake."
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H. T. JORDAN PHILADELPHIA SHOW NOV. 8, 1915. HEARST SELIG PICTURES. 14 min. A fairly interesting series of pictures with some very good war subjects. JOHNNY SINGER & ZIEGLER TWINS. 8 min. Boy and two girls in a very good dancing act of this kind, all three being excellent in their various lines of work, the boy especially so. They got a big hand in the opening spot. WHITFIELD-IRELAND & CO. 17 min. Two men and a girl, one man and woman, working in comedy makeup. Have some good rube talk and finished with eccentric dancing which brought them a good hand. Went very well. WERNER & AMOROS CO. 22 min. Four men, one dressed as a woman, in a high-class juggling and musical act. During the musical finish, a very good impersonation of Charlie Chaplin is done by one of the men, giving the act an excellent comedy finish. It scored a big hit. CRAIG CAMPBELL. 17 min. Payson Graham presents this distinguished tenor in a series of high-class vocal selections, including operatic and ballad number. Each number scored individually and he registered an emphatic hit. Hector MacCarthy at the piano played one number to liberal applause. This is an excellent musical offering which went very well. BRANDON HURST & CO. "The Girl." 21 min. A very well written dramatic playlet with a surprise finish and a comedy line on the final curtain. It was splendidly played by three men employed in the cast and was rewarded by a liberal hand of applause. CANTOR & LEE. 15 min. These boys put over a tremendous comedy hit with their snappy talk and songs, leaving the audience clamoring for more at the finish. NORA BAYES. 27 min. As radiant and attractive as ever with several new songs, some of her old ones and a medley of her best song hits, she had the audience applauding from the start to the finish of her act and at the close she was forced to come before the curtain and take several bows. LEW DOCKSTADER. 14 min. Following Nora Bayes was too hard a position for the veteran minstrel to hold with his long speech, but those who remained to listen to him sent him off with a fair-sized hand. His material is little changed from what he offered last year. BALZER SISTERS. 9 min. A very pretty aerial novelty by two attractive looking girls who hand by their teeth and swing around in showy evolutions. They enliven the act somewhat by playing musical instruments and furnished a good closing number. GENERAL REMARKS. This is Anniversary Week and the house being dressed in its winter garb with the beautiful crysanthemum show in the lobby presented a most inviting appearance. The show was fully up to expectations with a lot of good music, comedy and a couple of big applause hits and Nora Bayes, a name act, that went through flying, to set it off. Cantor & Lee, who were a tremendous hit, took Dockstader's place and Dockstader was moved up on the promise that he would cut the thirty-three minutes he did in Washington down to sixteen. CUTS BRANDON HURST & CO. Elimination of word "damn." CANTOR & LEE. Use of expression "For God's sake."
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