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Keith-Albee managers' report book, September 21, 1903 - March 14, 1904
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116 NEW YORK SHOW, WEEK OF JANUARY 21, 1903. [1904?] NH 3 --CORBLEY & BURKE.--Irish comedians. Two men, one of them making up straight, and the other in comedy makeup but neat. They do a very good comedy talking act, and while a great deal of their material is old, they have a method of delivering it that is all right and considering them as a three-show-a-day act it is a very good one. 15 minutes in one. GRR 3 YACKLEY & BUNNELL.--Two men in a musical comedy act, one of them working in white face and the comedian in black. The comedy is not especially apparent in this act, but their music is quite good and the comedian makes a very strong hit at the closing of the act by playing on bottles, on which he makes better music than I have ever heard anybody else succeed in producing. 18 minutes, open full stage; could close with about three minutes in one. KR 3--RAE & BENEDETTO.--Two men on an aerial ladder act, one of them making up as a clown and the other in straight acrobatic work. It is a good act of the kind; in fact, I think about as strong as any of the aerial acts. 11 minutes in 2; they could work entirely in one if necessary. NH 3--MR. & MRS. LARRY SHAW.--A man and a woman in a singing and dancing act with wooden shoes. They are very good dancers indeed, but extremely poor singers, but judged from a three-a-day standpoint it is a useful act. 10 minutes in one. YRR 3--KITAMURA JAPANESE TROUPE.--Seven people (all men) in the usual Japanese act. Like all of these people, their costumes are elegant, and their work, it is hardly needless to say, is of a very superior order. While they don't do quite as many different acts as many other Japanese troupes, what they do do is very strong indeed, and as we have not had an act of this kind for a long while it was quite a feature. 21 minutes, full stage. GYH 2--WM. CAHILL.--Irish comedian. He sort of effects the old J. W. Kelly style of work, and is very good indeed along about 2 o'clock or a little past. His Irish dialect is good, and he has some very good stories which went very well this afternoon. He does a very acceptable act. 15 minutes in one. YRR 2 --QUAKER CITY QUARTETTE.-- They do about the same act that they have done before, one of them making up as a black face comedian, and the other three in white face, presenting their sketch "Fun in a Barber Shop." They are all good singers and very fair instrumentalists, and the only bad feature of the act is that the comedian is still suffering from a most horrible case of rheumatism which seems to be chronic with him so that it is impossible for him to move about the stage much. I presume, however, that we notice this more than the audience. At any rate, the act went full as strong as it ever did. 24 minutes; open full stage, and close with about 5 minutes in one. SRR -2--ROUSBY'S ELECTRICAL NOVELTY. This act is a very handsome one indeed, but it is one of those turns which it is very hard to judge of by a Monday afternoon audience. It is an act that will not bring forth a great deal of applause, but I think that the audience will be satisfied with it. It consists of scenic effects which are augmented by the use of electricity. The principal features are a storm scene in which the effect of the gathering clouds, a driving rain storm, thunder, and lightning, etc., are succeeded by clear weather which gives an opportunity for a rain-bow, the singing of birds, the rising of the moon, etc. Then a couple of girls operate by means of electric apparatus on two tables some drums, whistles, castanets, tamborines, etc., hung in an ornamental frame which drops down from one; all of these instruments being illuminated at different times by electricity. From that they go to a scene in the Paris Exposition, the central feature of which is the Eiffel tower, which he trimmed with electric lights in
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116 NEW YORK SHOW, WEEK OF JANUARY 21, 1903. [1904?] NH 3 --CORBLEY & BURKE.--Irish comedians. Two men, one of them making up straight, and the other in comedy makeup but neat. They do a very good comedy talking act, and while a great deal of their material is old, they have a method of delivering it that is all right and considering them as a three-show-a-day act it is a very good one. 15 minutes in one. GRR 3 YACKLEY & BUNNELL.--Two men in a musical comedy act, one of them working in white face and the comedian in black. The comedy is not especially apparent in this act, but their music is quite good and the comedian makes a very strong hit at the closing of the act by playing on bottles, on which he makes better music than I have ever heard anybody else succeed in producing. 18 minutes, open full stage; could close with about three minutes in one. KR 3--RAE & BENEDETTO.--Two men on an aerial ladder act, one of them making up as a clown and the other in straight acrobatic work. It is a good act of the kind; in fact, I think about as strong as any of the aerial acts. 11 minutes in 2; they could work entirely in one if necessary. NH 3--MR. & MRS. LARRY SHAW.--A man and a woman in a singing and dancing act with wooden shoes. They are very good dancers indeed, but extremely poor singers, but judged from a three-a-day standpoint it is a useful act. 10 minutes in one. YRR 3--KITAMURA JAPANESE TROUPE.--Seven people (all men) in the usual Japanese act. Like all of these people, their costumes are elegant, and their work, it is hardly needless to say, is of a very superior order. While they don't do quite as many different acts as many other Japanese troupes, what they do do is very strong indeed, and as we have not had an act of this kind for a long while it was quite a feature. 21 minutes, full stage. GYH 2--WM. CAHILL.--Irish comedian. He sort of effects the old J. W. Kelly style of work, and is very good indeed along about 2 o'clock or a little past. His Irish dialect is good, and he has some very good stories which went very well this afternoon. He does a very acceptable act. 15 minutes in one. YRR 2 --QUAKER CITY QUARTETTE.-- They do about the same act that they have done before, one of them making up as a black face comedian, and the other three in white face, presenting their sketch "Fun in a Barber Shop." They are all good singers and very fair instrumentalists, and the only bad feature of the act is that the comedian is still suffering from a most horrible case of rheumatism which seems to be chronic with him so that it is impossible for him to move about the stage much. I presume, however, that we notice this more than the audience. At any rate, the act went full as strong as it ever did. 24 minutes; open full stage, and close with about 5 minutes in one. SRR -2--ROUSBY'S ELECTRICAL NOVELTY. This act is a very handsome one indeed, but it is one of those turns which it is very hard to judge of by a Monday afternoon audience. It is an act that will not bring forth a great deal of applause, but I think that the audience will be satisfied with it. It consists of scenic effects which are augmented by the use of electricity. The principal features are a storm scene in which the effect of the gathering clouds, a driving rain storm, thunder, and lightning, etc., are succeeded by clear weather which gives an opportunity for a rain-bow, the singing of birds, the rising of the moon, etc. Then a couple of girls operate by means of electric apparatus on two tables some drums, whistles, castanets, tamborines, etc., hung in an ornamental frame which drops down from one; all of these instruments being illuminated at different times by electricity. From that they go to a scene in the Paris Exposition, the central feature of which is the Eiffel tower, which he trimmed with electric lights in
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