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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 14, 1904 - November 21, 1904

Page 63a

Biograph, 3 shows, 25 min. in 1--Interesting and humorist series of motion pictures, including the automobile held over from last week. A film showing some of the incidents connected with the opening of the St. Luis fair, was too dark, having evidently been photographed on a dull day. It is better than no record of the event, however.
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Dick Brown and Mlle. Bartoletti, 3 shows, 12 min. open in 1, go to 3, and close in 1 -- Singing and dancing sketch, the woman doing some clever toe dancing, in a graceful manner, notwithstanding she is apparently too heavy for much work, and the man contributing some monologue of fair value. On the whole the woman carries the act.

Harry Seebach, 3 shows, 10 min. full stage -- in an exhibition of  skill in punching bags. It is as neat an act of the kind as we have ever had here and the young man is certainly clever, but our audiences do not care a rap for that sort of thing.

Comment--The audience this afternoon was rather slim by comparison with those we have been having right along on the first day of the week, and it was a decidedly dead gathering. As a consequence, everything was slow, and the show did not appear to as good advantage as would have been the case under ordinary circumstances. However, it is not such a good show as any of those offered during the past three weeks, the contrasts of entertainment not being marked enough.

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Biograph, 3 shows, 25 min. in 1--Interesting and humorist series of motion pictures, including the automobile held over from last week. A film showing some of the incidents connected with the opening of the St. Luis fair, was too dark, having evidently been photographed on a dull day. It is better than no record of the event, however. 63 Dick Brown and Mlle. Bartoletti, 3 shows, 12 min. open in 1, go to 3, and close in 1 -- Singing and dancing sketch, the woman doing some clever toe dancing, in a graceful manner, notwithstanding she is apparently too heavy for much work, and the man contributing some monologue of fair value. On the whole the woman carries the act. Harry Seebach, 3 shows, 10 min. full stage -- in an exhibition of skill in punching bags. It is as neat an act of the kind as we have ever had here and the young man is certainly clever, but our audiences do not care a rap for that sort of thing. Comment--The audience this afternoon was rather slim by comparison with those we have been having right along on the first day of the week, and it was a decidedly dead gathering. As a consequence, everything was slow, and the show did not appear to as good advantage as would have been the case under ordinary circumstances. However, it is not such a good show as any of those offered during the past three weeks, the contrasts of entertainment not being marked enough.