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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 3-November 3, 1913

[ILLEGIBLE] THEATRE, UNION HILL, N.J. WEEK, [MAR.?] 4, 1913.
Tuesday night's show.     Jos. R. Smith.
BINNS AND BERT--- Two men, comedy acrobats. They do several tricks on a pair of rings suspended from a parrallel bar. They have a little comedy. The act went fair. F.S. 8 Min.
MASTER NELSON--- Clever juvenile singer who renders four song with a change of costume for each number. He sings nicely and gets his stuff over well. The act went good. In one 14 Min.
CONLY AND WEBB--- Man and a woman. They have a comedy skit in which the man plays the piano and the woman sings. The comedy is brought out by the man reading passages from a dime novel and interpreting the meaning on the piano. First half of the act closes with a funny windstorm during which the windmilll picture on an easel starts blowing, tables move, chairs fall over and the woman's skirt blows off as the man climbs under the carpet. The act went very good and is the applause hit of the bill. F.S. 12 Min. 9 Min in one, time of act 21 Min.
ELDRIDGE AND BARLOW--- Man and a woman in a "rube" sketch. The scene is a country depot with spreading tree and village store. An actress and a rube, who is everything in the town worth being, meet. She wants something to eat, and he being the hotelkeeper also runs off to give her order. While he is gone she stars to rehearse her latest part. He overhears her cries about being a murderess and a runaway wife and finds that her description tallies with that of a girl wanted by the police. he places her under arrest and puts the handcuffs on her, but she influences him to remove them and then by a ruse she puts them on his wrists and ties him to a pole as she boards her train and pulls out of town. She tried to prove she as only an actress, but was unable to satisfy him and as the train leaves with her on the platform waiving goodbye he raves and tries to break away. There is a little comedy to the act, and it went fair. F.S. special scenery, 14 Min.
INTERMISSION---
HAAGER AND MC CARTY--- Man and a woman, the former plays the piano and joins the woman in singing and doing a little dancing. He wears evening clothes and she changes her costumes twice. They have fairly good voices and the act went fair. In one 13 Min.
FANCIS CARLYLE AND COMPANY, in "Ther Ferret", presented by Joseph Hart. Three men and a woman. Scene interior of wealthy man's home. During a conversation a husband tells his wife that he has invited Philip Morgan, a new actor after whom New York has gone wild, for supper. The wife recalls an episode in her life that happened before she was married. The husband begs her to forget it. The man who figured in the episode she tells him is Morgan. Greatly surprised the husband decides to get revenge. Morgan arrives and after being welcomed the actor is left alone with the wife while the husband goes into an adjoining room to look after a sick son. The wife's true character is then shown. She begs the actor not to disclose her real identity. It develops that years before this meeting she deserted the actor when he was poor and unknown and stole all his money and valuables. The tells him she is about have a great sum settled upon her and wants to buy his silence. He refuses. The husband enters and the wife leaves. After a short conversation the men become personal and a fight is imminent when the actor offers to prove all the many [disreditable] things he has said about the wife. He overturns a few chairs and a table, tells the husband to lie on a sofa as though dead, and then he fires a shot. The wife enters and he tells her he has killed her husband. She cries out with joy that now she is wealthy when the husband gets up and confronts her as the curtain goes down. The act went very well. C.D.F. 15 Min.
QUINLAND AND RICHARDS--- "The Traveling Dentist". Two men, one straight and the other blackface. It is the same old act with a few new jokes. The act is a laugh from start to finish and went good. Special drop in one, 19 Min.
MYSTERIOUS EDNA---- One woman and two men. The act opens with an announcement made by a man wearing evening clothes. He stands before a red plush drop. When he finishes describing the act the curtains part and a young woman, wearing tights, is seen suspended in the air. The entire black canopy under which she works covers the stage. She performs many graceful tricks and evolutions in the air, turning somesaults forward and backward and she passes a hoop over her entire body several times. The act seems to create expectations which are not realized. When the curtain drops and the act ends the audience does not realize it. It seems to expect something more. The seem disappointed. The act went fair. Special set 7 Min.
PHOTOPLANES---- Satisfactory.

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[ILLEGIBLE] THEATRE, UNION HILL, N.J. WEEK, [MAR.?] 4, 1913. Tuesday night's show. Jos. R. Smith. BINNS AND BERT--- Two men, comedy acrobats. They do several tricks on a pair of rings suspended from a parrallel bar. They have a little comedy. The act went fair. F.S. 8 Min. MASTER NELSON--- Clever juvenile singer who renders four song with a change of costume for each number. He sings nicely and gets his stuff over well. The act went good. In one 14 Min. CONLY AND WEBB--- Man and a woman. They have a comedy skit in which the man plays the piano and the woman sings. The comedy is brought out by the man reading passages from a dime novel and interpreting the meaning on the piano. First half of the act closes with a funny windstorm during which the windmilll picture on an easel starts blowing, tables move, chairs fall over and the woman's skirt blows off as the man climbs under the carpet. The act went very good and is the applause hit of the bill. F.S. 12 Min. 9 Min in one, time of act 21 Min. ELDRIDGE AND BARLOW--- Man and a woman in a "rube" sketch. The scene is a country depot with spreading tree and village store. An actress and a rube, who is everything in the town worth being, meet. She wants something to eat, and he being the hotelkeeper also runs off to give her order. While he is gone she stars to rehearse her latest part. He overhears her cries about being a murderess and a runaway wife and finds that her description tallies with that of a girl wanted by the police. he places her under arrest and puts the handcuffs on her, but she influences him to remove them and then by a ruse she puts them on his wrists and ties him to a pole as she boards her train and pulls out of town. She tried to prove she as only an actress, but was unable to satisfy him and as the train leaves with her on the platform waiving goodbye he raves and tries to break away. There is a little comedy to the act, and it went fair. F.S. special scenery, 14 Min. INTERMISSION--- HAAGER AND MC CARTY--- Man and a woman, the former plays the piano and joins the woman in singing and doing a little dancing. He wears evening clothes and she changes her costumes twice. They have fairly good voices and the act went fair. In one 13 Min. FANCIS CARLYLE AND COMPANY, in "Ther Ferret", presented by Joseph Hart. Three men and a woman. Scene interior of wealthy man's home. During a conversation a husband tells his wife that he has invited Philip Morgan, a new actor after whom New York has gone wild, for supper. The wife recalls an episode in her life that happened before she was married. The husband begs her to forget it. The man who figured in the episode she tells him is Morgan. Greatly surprised the husband decides to get revenge. Morgan arrives and after being welcomed the actor is left alone with the wife while the husband goes into an adjoining room to look after a sick son. The wife's true character is then shown. She begs the actor not to disclose her real identity. It develops that years before this meeting she deserted the actor when he was poor and unknown and stole all his money and valuables. The tells him she is about have a great sum settled upon her and wants to buy his silence. He refuses. The husband enters and the wife leaves. After a short conversation the men become personal and a fight is imminent when the actor offers to prove all the many [disreditable] things he has said about the wife. He overturns a few chairs and a table, tells the husband to lie on a sofa as though dead, and then he fires a shot. The wife enters and he tells her he has killed her husband. She cries out with joy that now she is wealthy when the husband gets up and confronts her as the curtain goes down. The act went very well. C.D.F. 15 Min. QUINLAND AND RICHARDS--- "The Traveling Dentist". Two men, one straight and the other blackface. It is the same old act with a few new jokes. The act is a laugh from start to finish and went good. Special drop in one, 19 Min. MYSTERIOUS EDNA---- One woman and two men. The act opens with an announcement made by a man wearing evening clothes. He stands before a red plush drop. When he finishes describing the act the curtains part and a young woman, wearing tights, is seen suspended in the air. The entire black canopy under which she works covers the stage. She performs many graceful tricks and evolutions in the air, turning somesaults forward and backward and she passes a hoop over her entire body several times. The act seems to create expectations which are not realized. When the curtain drops and the act ends the audience does not realize it. It seems to expect something more. The seem disappointed. The act went fair. Special set 7 Min. PHOTOPLANES---- Satisfactory.