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Keith-Albee managers' report book, February 4-September 9, 1907

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APRIL 8th, 1907.    PHILADELPHIA SHOW.    C.E. BARNES.
BON MORSE, Com. Bicyclist:-12 min. F.S. 3 shows. On at 7:00. Regulation single man bicycle-act. Does the well known stunts fairly well and gets a scattered laugh or two for his comedy. Cannot be said to be very strong either in comedy or in merit. Close was not very encouraging.
HODGES & LAUNCHMERE, Col. Com:- 16 min. in 1. 3 shows. On at 7:12. This is a very good coon act, indeed. The woman is a good singer and the man has a sense of comedy. The cat-duet got many laughs and good applause. The dancing finish is also O.K. The act could go well anywhere on the three-a-day section. Closed with strong gallery hand.
ZAY HOLLAND, Music:- 11 min. in 1. 3 shows. On at 7:28. Very pleasing little entertainer. Her costuming and appearance is strongly in her favor. She has a good deal of talent, and not only sings pleasingly, but plays the violin with sweetness and precision. Everyone of her efforts got splendid hand and proved that she could hold a much better spot on the bill with entire credit. The ability to sing one note while playing another on the violin caught the audience as quite novel. Closed very well with curtain call.
GARDNER & MADDERN, "Too Many Darlings":- 25 min. F.S. 2 shows. On at 7:45. This is a very amusing sketch, rather uneven in quality, but at the same time acceptable on the whole in an early place in the two-a-day section. The plot concerns a broker who goes to the races, unknown to his wife, and the latter making the discovery by seeing his picture  in a moving-picture at a theatre, and the complications arise from this incident. There is a good deal of comedy in the lines and the laughs were fairly well distributed. The skirt-tearing episode which is supposedly not intentional takes away from the illusion of the play and makes the finish less strong than it would otherwise be. Closed to a good hand.
DELMORE & ONEIDA, Pole-balancing:- 10 min. in 1. 2 shows. On at 8:10. Well known act. Went just as well as it has done previously here. Artistic and well costumed.
McMAHON'S MINSTREL MAIDS:- 20 min. F.S. 2 shows. On at 8:20. This act has improved since it was here before, both in singing and dancing. The solos and chorus-work pleased the audience greatly and worked up to a strong climax with the Watermelon Girls. There is not very much humor in the act, but it is graceful and refined. Applauded throughout and good strong finish, with three curtain calls.
McMAHON & CHAPELLE, comedy:- 15 min. in 1. 2 shows. On at 8:40. New line of talk, some of it was of a pretty seamy order, and the best of it was not so excrutiatingly funny as to put the audience in convulsions. It deals principally with a matrimonial squabble. Mother-in-law and other trite phases of life. The redeeming feature of the act is the finish,- a very good song, well given, and receiving good applause and a curtain call. Went far better in the evening when some of his "undertaker" humor and "hearse"-talk was cut out.


Man and woman, former works straight and the latter eccentric. Include some clever swift piano playing by the man and some finger-whistling by the girl which is rather novel and seemed to please as much as any three-a-day act of this kind could please, after the foregoing features. Closed well.

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APRIL 8th, 1907. PHILADELPHIA SHOW. C.E. BARNES. BON MORSE, Com. Bicyclist:-12 min. F.S. 3 shows. On at 7:00. Regulation single man bicycle-act. Does the well known stunts fairly well and gets a scattered laugh or two for his comedy. Cannot be said to be very strong either in comedy or in merit. Close was not very encouraging. HODGES & LAUNCHMERE, Col. Com:- 16 min. in 1. 3 shows. On at 7:12. This is a very good coon act, indeed. The woman is a good singer and the man has a sense of comedy. The cat-duet got many laughs and good applause. The dancing finish is also O.K. The act could go well anywhere on the three-a-day section. Closed with strong gallery hand. ZAY HOLLAND, Music:- 11 min. in 1. 3 shows. On at 7:28. Very pleasing little entertainer. Her costuming and appearance is strongly in her favor. She has a good deal of talent, and not only sings pleasingly, but plays the violin with sweetness and precision. Everyone of her efforts got splendid hand and proved that she could hold a much better spot on the bill with entire credit. The ability to sing one note while playing another on the violin caught the audience as quite novel. Closed very well with curtain call. GARDNER & MADDERN, "Too Many Darlings":- 25 min. F.S. 2 shows. On at 7:45. This is a very amusing sketch, rather uneven in quality, but at the same time acceptable on the whole in an early place in the two-a-day section. The plot concerns a broker who goes to the races, unknown to his wife, and the latter making the discovery by seeing his picture in a moving-picture at a theatre, and the complications arise from this incident. There is a good deal of comedy in the lines and the laughs were fairly well distributed. The skirt-tearing episode which is supposedly not intentional takes away from the illusion of the play and makes the finish less strong than it would otherwise be. Closed to a good hand. DELMORE & ONEIDA, Pole-balancing:- 10 min. in 1. 2 shows. On at 8:10. Well known act. Went just as well as it has done previously here. Artistic and well costumed. McMAHON'S MINSTREL MAIDS:- 20 min. F.S. 2 shows. On at 8:20. This act has improved since it was here before, both in singing and dancing. The solos and chorus-work pleased the audience greatly and worked up to a strong climax with the Watermelon Girls. There is not very much humor in the act, but it is graceful and refined. Applauded throughout and good strong finish, with three curtain calls. McMAHON & CHAPELLE, comedy:- 15 min. in 1. 2 shows. On at 8:40. New line of talk, some of it was of a pretty seamy order, and the best of it was not so excrutiatingly funny as to put the audience in convulsions. It deals principally with a matrimonial squabble. Mother-in-law and other trite phases of life. The redeeming feature of the act is the finish,- a very good song, well given, and receiving good applause and a curtain call. Went far better in the evening when some of his "undertaker" humor and "hearse"-talk was cut out. Man and woman, former works straight and the latter eccentric. Include some clever swift piano playing by the man and some finger-whistling by the girl which is rather novel and seemed to please as much as any three-a-day act of this kind could please, after the foregoing features. Closed well.