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Keith-Albee managers' report book, December 28, 1908 - October 18, 1909

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Report on Columbus Show week Sept. 6, 1909.
W. W. Prosser.
CHRISTY & WILLIS: Man and woman in a comedy juggling act and dancing. The act opens with woman in a short dance which leaves a pleasing impression. Man does a very good routine of comedy juggling and has a slight amount of comedy remarks in connection therewith. All of his work is very good and he succeeded admirably all the way through. The act finished especially strong for an opener and was perfectly satisfactory. 10 minutes, garden in 4.
DAGWELL SISTERS: Two stately appearing girls, soprano and contralto, who


FRED LINDSAY & CO.: "The Australian Bushman". All that has been said of Lindsay, the phenomenal expert whip crack, proved to be not the slightest exaggeration. He performed a series of tricks in the way of whip cracking that deservedly may be termed marvelous. Each and every one of them scored the biggest kind of a hit. He makes an excellent impression on the audience, apparently being an extremely modest sort of gentleman. His announcer does his work in such an intelligent and genteel manner that it adds greatly to the classiness of the act. Every trick performed by Lindsay won unstinted applause and he had the audience sitting on the edge of their seats almost every moment of the time he occupied the stage. I think this act will create as much talk as anything that has ever played the house. It certainly is a novelty and one that is wonderfully interesting to any theatre-goer. Unfortunately Lindsay's scenery in coming from Montreal got tied up some place on the road and it wasn't here for the matinee performance, but we fixed up a very pretty and tasteful set and the act didn't seem to suffer because of its absence. 11 minutes, terrace in 5.
MOVING PICTURES:  O. K.

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Report on Columbus Show week Sept. 6, 1909. W. W. Prosser. CHRISTY & WILLIS: Man and woman in a comedy juggling act and dancing. The act opens with woman in a short dance which leaves a pleasing impression. Man does a very good routine of comedy juggling and has a slight amount of comedy remarks in connection therewith. All of his work is very good and he succeeded admirably all the way through. The act finished especially strong for an opener and was perfectly satisfactory. 10 minutes, garden in 4. DAGWELL SISTERS: Two stately appearing girls, soprano and contralto, who FRED LINDSAY & CO.: "The Australian Bushman". All that has been said of Lindsay, the phenomenal expert whip crack, proved to be not the slightest exaggeration. He performed a series of tricks in the way of whip cracking that deservedly may be termed marvelous. Each and every one of them scored the biggest kind of a hit. He makes an excellent impression on the audience, apparently being an extremely modest sort of gentleman. His announcer does his work in such an intelligent and genteel manner that it adds greatly to the classiness of the act. Every trick performed by Lindsay won unstinted applause and he had the audience sitting on the edge of their seats almost every moment of the time he occupied the stage. I think this act will create as much talk as anything that has ever played the house. It certainly is a novelty and one that is wonderfully interesting to any theatre-goer. Unfortunately Lindsay's scenery in coming from Montreal got tied up some place on the road and it wasn't here for the matinee performance, but we fixed up a very pretty and tasteful set and the act didn't seem to suffer because of its absence. 11 minutes, terrace in 5. MOVING PICTURES: O. K.