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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 3-November 3, 1913
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HUDSON THEATRE, UNION HILL, N.J. WEEK OF MARCH 10, 1913. Tuesday night's show. [illegible]. R. Smith. THE ATLAS TWINS COMPANY --- Man and two boys, all nicely costumed who do some clever work on a tight wire. The twins also do a little acrobatic work, bringing out some comedy. It is a good opening act. F.S. 11 Min. HATTIE TIMBERG --- "The singing and dancing violinist". This young woman has not a good voice and her songs are poorly selected. She plays the violin while performing a dance. Her playing suffers by this fact and as her dancing is anything but clever consequently her efforts fail to get over. The act went fair. In one 10 Min. MOSS, HEAGNEY AND BERNARD --- Three men dressed in brown suits. Two sing and the third plays the piano. They render five songs all have pleasing voices and get their stuff over in good shape. The act went very well. In one 13 Min. "THE FLASH", Presented by Herman Lieb and Company --- Four men and a woman. There are two scenes, first being a hotel room and the second a room in the power house where the electrical signs for New York's tenderloin is controlled and operated. The story is this; A gambler in his hotel room overhears a woman in the next room talking to herself about her husband who is missing. The husband, who has stolen a big sum of money from a telegraph company has disappeared and left her a note saying he is going to kill himself rather than faces a trial. The gambler conceives the idea of getting the money. He rushes to a nearby hotel and enters the room, which is the first scene. He telephones the wife he has her husband and tells her to come to the room at once. She hurries there and when she is in he locks the door and robs her of a big sum which she had gathered to cover the amount her husband has stolen. His conscience overtakes him and he restored the money to her and hearing her story of her husbands shortcomings he decides to help her. He gives back the money just as the house detective, a former crook enters. He was to have been in on the robbery and when the crook tells him he didn't rob the woman the detective don't believe him. He starts a fight but is overpowered and thrown into an adjoining room and the door locked. The crook and the woman hurry to the powerhouse. The man in charge is cowed with a Revolver in the hands of the crook. The wife remembers a code her husband, a former operator taught her and she flashes it on every electrical sign in the tenderloin. Her husband gets the flash and he telephones the powerhouse and as the curtain goes down she tells him to come home she has enough money to cover his shortage. The act went very fair. Time of set 18 Min.Special set. INTERMISSION---- WILL OAKLAND AND COMPANY --- " At the Club". Five men in evening clothes who present a singing novelty. These men all have good voices and their songs are catchy and well selected. The feature of the set is a singing dialogue in which the quintette give a comedy-drama. Oakland is especially good, possessing a rich tenor voice that carries. The men make a very neat appearance and get a big hand after every number. The set went very big. C.D.F. 17 Min. In one 5 Min. Time of act 22 Min. FAGAN AND BYRON --- Men and a woman in a comedy skit in which they introduce a little dancing, singing, talking and some poetry. The man gives a long baseball poem in a clear voice that went well. They carry on a humorous dialogue that got over nicely. The set went very well. C.D.F. 23 Min. HERBERT AND DENNIS --- Two men with a lot of funny talk, a little singing and a little dialogue. Herbert is short and very heavy. The set gets its greatest laugh when he falls and makes the audience think he can't get up without help. Then he gets on his feet he does several somersaults backward and forward. He also has a few peculiar mannerisms that draw laughs. The set went big. In one 16 Min. WILLIARD'S PALACE OF MUSIC --- Four women and two men in an elaborate musical set. The electrical effects are very pretty. Every piece of the contrivance is bearing a string of lights. Popular and classical selections are played on instruments that are patterened after human heads, alarm clocks, lamp shades and buzz saws. One of the sweetest bits of harmony is produced on a big organ which stands in the center of the stage. Then the girls get the music from the buzz saws the lights are turned off and the sparks from the saws illumine the stage.
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HUDSON THEATRE, UNION HILL, N.J. WEEK OF MARCH 10, 1913. Tuesday night's show. [illegible]. R. Smith. THE ATLAS TWINS COMPANY --- Man and two boys, all nicely costumed who do some clever work on a tight wire. The twins also do a little acrobatic work, bringing out some comedy. It is a good opening act. F.S. 11 Min. HATTIE TIMBERG --- "The singing and dancing violinist". This young woman has not a good voice and her songs are poorly selected. She plays the violin while performing a dance. Her playing suffers by this fact and as her dancing is anything but clever consequently her efforts fail to get over. The act went fair. In one 10 Min. MOSS, HEAGNEY AND BERNARD --- Three men dressed in brown suits. Two sing and the third plays the piano. They render five songs all have pleasing voices and get their stuff over in good shape. The act went very well. In one 13 Min. "THE FLASH", Presented by Herman Lieb and Company --- Four men and a woman. There are two scenes, first being a hotel room and the second a room in the power house where the electrical signs for New York's tenderloin is controlled and operated. The story is this; A gambler in his hotel room overhears a woman in the next room talking to herself about her husband who is missing. The husband, who has stolen a big sum of money from a telegraph company has disappeared and left her a note saying he is going to kill himself rather than faces a trial. The gambler conceives the idea of getting the money. He rushes to a nearby hotel and enters the room, which is the first scene. He telephones the wife he has her husband and tells her to come to the room at once. She hurries there and when she is in he locks the door and robs her of a big sum which she had gathered to cover the amount her husband has stolen. His conscience overtakes him and he restored the money to her and hearing her story of her husbands shortcomings he decides to help her. He gives back the money just as the house detective, a former crook enters. He was to have been in on the robbery and when the crook tells him he didn't rob the woman the detective don't believe him. He starts a fight but is overpowered and thrown into an adjoining room and the door locked. The crook and the woman hurry to the powerhouse. The man in charge is cowed with a Revolver in the hands of the crook. The wife remembers a code her husband, a former operator taught her and she flashes it on every electrical sign in the tenderloin. Her husband gets the flash and he telephones the powerhouse and as the curtain goes down she tells him to come home she has enough money to cover his shortage. The act went very fair. Time of set 18 Min.Special set. INTERMISSION---- WILL OAKLAND AND COMPANY --- " At the Club". Five men in evening clothes who present a singing novelty. These men all have good voices and their songs are catchy and well selected. The feature of the set is a singing dialogue in which the quintette give a comedy-drama. Oakland is especially good, possessing a rich tenor voice that carries. The men make a very neat appearance and get a big hand after every number. The set went very big. C.D.F. 17 Min. In one 5 Min. Time of act 22 Min. FAGAN AND BYRON --- Men and a woman in a comedy skit in which they introduce a little dancing, singing, talking and some poetry. The man gives a long baseball poem in a clear voice that went well. They carry on a humorous dialogue that got over nicely. The set went very well. C.D.F. 23 Min. HERBERT AND DENNIS --- Two men with a lot of funny talk, a little singing and a little dialogue. Herbert is short and very heavy. The set gets its greatest laugh when he falls and makes the audience think he can't get up without help. Then he gets on his feet he does several somersaults backward and forward. He also has a few peculiar mannerisms that draw laughs. The set went big. In one 16 Min. WILLIARD'S PALACE OF MUSIC --- Four women and two men in an elaborate musical set. The electrical effects are very pretty. Every piece of the contrivance is bearing a string of lights. Popular and classical selections are played on instruments that are patterened after human heads, alarm clocks, lamp shades and buzz saws. One of the sweetest bits of harmony is produced on a big organ which stands in the center of the stage. Then the girls get the music from the buzz saws the lights are turned off and the sparks from the saws illumine the stage.
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