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Keith-Albee managers' report book, September 21, 1903 - March 14, 1904
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Report on Providence Show, Keith's Theatre, Week of October 5, 1903. (Charles Rovenberg) The bill taken as a whole does not pan out as well as it looks on paper. There is not enough strong comedy and too many sight acts of which we have seven. It does not compare favorably as a variety performance with last weeks' show. Coture & Gillette. Contortion and comedy acrobatic dancing. 1 man straight the other as a farmer. Do some very clever work, but the act makes no particular impression. 8 min. full stage, 3 shows. Musical Bentley. Instrumentalist. First part of his act amounts to very little but he plays the xylophone very well indeed. From a standpoint of three shows and his salary he may be classed as good. 12 min. in one. Barr & Evans. Comedy sketch. There is nothing particularly meritorious about this act. The man is really very bad but they manage to work out on the strength of the woman's size and eccentricities. Fairly good three a day act. 16 min. open in 3, with about one or 2 minutes in one. Mr. & Mrs. Breen. Comedy Club Juggling Act. In this case the woman is nothing more than an assistant but the man does some good work in club juggling and they have quite a few tricks and get laughs. 14 min. open full stage, about 3 minutes in one, 3 shows. Winona & Banks Winter. These people are about due to get something new. Winona Winter has always been the big end of the act but as she grows older she is getting more effected and is not appreciated as much as when a child. She got a big hand at the end of the act on her ventriloquism. 20 min. open in 3, and do about 5 min. in 1, 2 shows. Myra Amoros. Trapezist. Very pretty and dainty act which received the applause it merited. 7 min. full stage 2 shows. Jessie Couthoui. She didn't go very strong and I don't know really why she should. When she used to tell lots of jokes I considered her very clever but now one-half of her act is taken out with a pathetic recitation which got a good hand on the strength of the sentiment in the verses. In my opinion she rendered it very badly. The act she is giving us is worth about 1/2 what we are paying her. 17 min. in one, 2 shows. Foy & Clark. This act also depends more upon the material offered than upon the rendition. Consider the people very bad actors but they are saved by a very clever sketch. When the act was new on account of its novel situations it made a great hit but it is now a thing of the past. 18 min. full stage. 2 shows. Charles Mildare. Bird imitator. This man has an act entirely out of the ordinary and went very strong. 12 min. in 1, 2 shows. Tony Wilson & Heloise. Bar act, bounding net. A very clever and novel act which went very strongly with the audience. 9 min. full stage. George Thatcher. Blackface monologue. To my surprise went exceedingly well although he has very little new material. 15 min. in one, 2 shows. Holdin's Manikins. A very fine act, best of its kind probably ever given and I feel quite sure will draw us lots of money by the patronage of the little people. Didn't make the hit with the audience that it did in New York, this afternoon but I think it was effected by some of the
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Report on Providence Show, Keith's Theatre, Week of October 5, 1903. (Charles Rovenberg) The bill taken as a whole does not pan out as well as it looks on paper. There is not enough strong comedy and too many sight acts of which we have seven. It does not compare favorably as a variety performance with last weeks' show. Coture & Gillette. Contortion and comedy acrobatic dancing. 1 man straight the other as a farmer. Do some very clever work, but the act makes no particular impression. 8 min. full stage, 3 shows. Musical Bentley. Instrumentalist. First part of his act amounts to very little but he plays the xylophone very well indeed. From a standpoint of three shows and his salary he may be classed as good. 12 min. in one. Barr & Evans. Comedy sketch. There is nothing particularly meritorious about this act. The man is really very bad but they manage to work out on the strength of the woman's size and eccentricities. Fairly good three a day act. 16 min. open in 3, with about one or 2 minutes in one. Mr. & Mrs. Breen. Comedy Club Juggling Act. In this case the woman is nothing more than an assistant but the man does some good work in club juggling and they have quite a few tricks and get laughs. 14 min. open full stage, about 3 minutes in one, 3 shows. Winona & Banks Winter. These people are about due to get something new. Winona Winter has always been the big end of the act but as she grows older she is getting more effected and is not appreciated as much as when a child. She got a big hand at the end of the act on her ventriloquism. 20 min. open in 3, and do about 5 min. in 1, 2 shows. Myra Amoros. Trapezist. Very pretty and dainty act which received the applause it merited. 7 min. full stage 2 shows. Jessie Couthoui. She didn't go very strong and I don't know really why she should. When she used to tell lots of jokes I considered her very clever but now one-half of her act is taken out with a pathetic recitation which got a good hand on the strength of the sentiment in the verses. In my opinion she rendered it very badly. The act she is giving us is worth about 1/2 what we are paying her. 17 min. in one, 2 shows. Foy & Clark. This act also depends more upon the material offered than upon the rendition. Consider the people very bad actors but they are saved by a very clever sketch. When the act was new on account of its novel situations it made a great hit but it is now a thing of the past. 18 min. full stage. 2 shows. Charles Mildare. Bird imitator. This man has an act entirely out of the ordinary and went very strong. 12 min. in 1, 2 shows. Tony Wilson & Heloise. Bar act, bounding net. A very clever and novel act which went very strongly with the audience. 9 min. full stage. George Thatcher. Blackface monologue. To my surprise went exceedingly well although he has very little new material. 15 min. in one, 2 shows. Holdin's Manikins. A very fine act, best of its kind probably ever given and I feel quite sure will draw us lots of money by the patronage of the little people. Didn't make the hit with the audience that it did in New York, this afternoon but I think it was effected by some of the
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