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

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concerned, at least. It would be a good act at any time, but is particularly so now, as I have said, and could be played anywhere.
Biograph, 3 shows, 20 min. in 1 -- Showing the following list of pictures:
1, The Suburbanite. This picture is aimed to be comic, and is so in spots, but cannot, of course, be compared with "The Lost Child", and other films of that class. Still it is an interesting and at times laughable picture.
2, Scenes in a Canadian Logging Camp. This is a repeat, upon our own request. It is one of the most interesting films we have ever had.
Comment - The show, considering its expense, is not up to the standard of the past few weeks by any means. There is bad and indifferent singing in 9 of the 14 acts, 6 of the 8 being in consecutive order. This is the sort of thing that makes patrons of vaudeville indifferent to vocalism of any kind, even when it is fairly good, and it makes a bad program. For the first one and one-half hours we have no comedy worth talking about.
The redeeming features of the show are Delmore and Lee, Jim Morton, the Japs, Snyder and Buckley, and Cain and De Forest, the order in which they are placed being the relative value.

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concerned, at least. It would be a good act at any time, but is particularly so now, as I have said, and could be played anywhere. Biograph, 3 shows, 20 min. in 1 -- Showing the following list of pictures: 1, The Suburbanite. This picture is aimed to be comic, and is so in spots, but cannot, of course, be compared with "The Lost Child", and other films of that class. Still it is an interesting and at times laughable picture. 2, Scenes in a Canadian Logging Camp. This is a repeat, upon our own request. It is one of the most interesting films we have ever had. Comment - The show, considering its expense, is not up to the standard of the past few weeks by any means. There is bad and indifferent singing in 9 of the 14 acts, 6 of the 8 being in consecutive order. This is the sort of thing that makes patrons of vaudeville indifferent to vocalism of any kind, even when it is fairly good, and it makes a bad program. For the first one and one-half hours we have no comedy worth talking about. The redeeming features of the show are Delmore and Lee, Jim Morton, the Japs, Snyder and Buckley, and Cain and De Forest, the order in which they are placed being the relative value.