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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 3-November 3, 1913
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PITTSBURGH, PA., GRAND OPERA HOUSE. SEPT. 15, 1913 MONTAGUE'S COMEDY COCKATOOS. Full stage - Palace - 10 minutes. This is a conventional bird act, some features excelling most any other act of its kind.we have played, but all rather clumsily handled. The paraphernalia of the act is always in evidence and leaves nothing of surprise for the audience. Personally, I believe bird acts, however good, are passe. MANON GRAND OPERA COMPANY. Singing quartette. 12 minutes in one. Four good voices singing selections from the operas. There is material here for a splendid act, but it lacks coherency in its present form. It would be improved if presented straight, without costumes. CLEMENSO BROS. Full Stage - Garden - 6 minutes. Musical clowns and acrobats. By far the best act of its kind we have played. A real novelty and presented with excellent showmanship. ELIDA MORRIS 15 minutes in One. Singing Comedienne. There has been a greater improvement in this young woman's work in the past 12 months than in the work of any similar performer we have played in a long time. Miss Morris sings coon songs and closes with a little Pierrat song and dance. She is full of temperament, works hard and gets her material over in fine style. TROVOLLO. Full stage - exterior with hotel office set in garden, for which the ventriloquist makes an apology at the beginning of his act. Trovollo has improved in method, if not in material. His act is a little more refined than formerly, but it is not a first class ventriloquial performance. FRANCIS McGINN & CO. Full stage - Interior. "The Cop," a comedy playlet. 18 minutes. Full of inconsistencies with no surprise when the climax reveals a comedy frame-up. The act just gets by. It is not worth the money we pay for it. LEWIS & DODY. "The Two Sams." Character vocalists. 18 minutes in one. Hebrew and Italian. These young men achieve the laughing hit of our bill. Their songs are new and are delivered with droll characterizations and a breezy action. There is not a dull or commonplace second in the entire act. LEROY, TALMA & BOSCO. Full stage - Special Setting. Magicians, Sleight-of-hand performers and Comedy. 22 minutes. The comedy is very English in all that term implies. The magic is great, the best that has ever been given us barring none, and comparable with anything Herrman or Kellar offered in their palmiest days. The bally-ho business in the audience, especially the comedy of Bosco in the balcony, could be eliminated in houses where the clientele is refined. It is coarse, noisy and distracting. JOHN E. HAZZARD. Monologist. 15 minutes.in One. Mr. Hazzard is a fine comedian, but should change his routine of stories. He have us absolutely nothing new,- not a single tale that had not been told on the occasion of his last visit. This is a common fault of monologists, who never cease to wonder why they do not awaken the audience from the lethargy into which they have thrown it with their hackneyed line of talk. SPRAGUE & McNEECE. Full stage - 8 minutes. Roller skating act. One of the neatest and best presented skating numbers we have ever played, but scarcely imposing enough to close a show like this. MOVING PICTURES. Harry Thaw in Canada. 18 min. Very interesting pictures of the famous fugitive that held our audience to the finish.
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PITTSBURGH, PA., GRAND OPERA HOUSE. SEPT. 15, 1913 MONTAGUE'S COMEDY COCKATOOS. Full stage - Palace - 10 minutes. This is a conventional bird act, some features excelling most any other act of its kind.we have played, but all rather clumsily handled. The paraphernalia of the act is always in evidence and leaves nothing of surprise for the audience. Personally, I believe bird acts, however good, are passe. MANON GRAND OPERA COMPANY. Singing quartette. 12 minutes in one. Four good voices singing selections from the operas. There is material here for a splendid act, but it lacks coherency in its present form. It would be improved if presented straight, without costumes. CLEMENSO BROS. Full Stage - Garden - 6 minutes. Musical clowns and acrobats. By far the best act of its kind we have played. A real novelty and presented with excellent showmanship. ELIDA MORRIS 15 minutes in One. Singing Comedienne. There has been a greater improvement in this young woman's work in the past 12 months than in the work of any similar performer we have played in a long time. Miss Morris sings coon songs and closes with a little Pierrat song and dance. She is full of temperament, works hard and gets her material over in fine style. TROVOLLO. Full stage - exterior with hotel office set in garden, for which the ventriloquist makes an apology at the beginning of his act. Trovollo has improved in method, if not in material. His act is a little more refined than formerly, but it is not a first class ventriloquial performance. FRANCIS McGINN & CO. Full stage - Interior. "The Cop," a comedy playlet. 18 minutes. Full of inconsistencies with no surprise when the climax reveals a comedy frame-up. The act just gets by. It is not worth the money we pay for it. LEWIS & DODY. "The Two Sams." Character vocalists. 18 minutes in one. Hebrew and Italian. These young men achieve the laughing hit of our bill. Their songs are new and are delivered with droll characterizations and a breezy action. There is not a dull or commonplace second in the entire act. LEROY, TALMA & BOSCO. Full stage - Special Setting. Magicians, Sleight-of-hand performers and Comedy. 22 minutes. The comedy is very English in all that term implies. The magic is great, the best that has ever been given us barring none, and comparable with anything Herrman or Kellar offered in their palmiest days. The bally-ho business in the audience, especially the comedy of Bosco in the balcony, could be eliminated in houses where the clientele is refined. It is coarse, noisy and distracting. JOHN E. HAZZARD. Monologist. 15 minutes.in One. Mr. Hazzard is a fine comedian, but should change his routine of stories. He have us absolutely nothing new,- not a single tale that had not been told on the occasion of his last visit. This is a common fault of monologists, who never cease to wonder why they do not awaken the audience from the lethargy into which they have thrown it with their hackneyed line of talk. SPRAGUE & McNEECE. Full stage - 8 minutes. Roller skating act. One of the neatest and best presented skating numbers we have ever played, but scarcely imposing enough to close a show like this. MOVING PICTURES. Harry Thaw in Canada. 18 min. Very interesting pictures of the famous fugitive that held our audience to the finish.
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