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

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[preprinted] SCENIC TEMPLE
Vaudeville and Motion Pictures

EXEC. OFFICE: UNION THEATRE
UNION STREET
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

MAIN STREET
PHONE PAWTUCKET 356

Pawtucket, R. I. [/preprinted]

Report On Acts Playing Pawt. Scenic Temple
Mon. Tues. Wed. Oct. 6,7,8, 1913.
Show seen by C.L.McNally. Matnee & Eve.

Oxford Trio

(3) Men work in full stage nine minutes. 
Basket Ball played on bicycles by two men while the third acts as referee and furnishes quite a little comedy at the same time
The game is exciting and is a very good novelty
Went Good.

Florence Ackley/
Works in one 10 Min.
Act Billed as  Classy singer of Classy songs
Miss. Ackley has a very pleasing voice and renders very well three songs
Act Pleased.

Anderson & Evans
(2) Men work in full stage center door fancy
Act entitled"On The Rocks"  Act is a comedy  sketch with quite a few laughs through same, Actb deals with a couple of actors out off work Scene in there room.
Went fair matnee
Went better at night.

^[Wheeler] Earle, ^[Vera] Curtis Co.
(2) Men 1 Woman work in special drop full stage
Aneat talking singing and dancing skit entitled" The drummer and the girl." This act is a pecular kind of an act and is a hard act to  talk on . Takl is catchy; woman a fair singer ; man seems to have a cold. One member of act does very little,acting as a bell hop.
Act went over good.

[preprinted] Pawtucket, R. I. [/preprinted]
Report on acts playing The Scenic Temple, Beginning Oct.9,1913.
E.J.Appleby.
Works 12 minutes in one. Banjoist. He gets the music all right, but his work lacks snap,and is very dead. Went fair at matinee, and good at night.

Rober and Tenison.
Man and woman,work in one 15 minutes. Travesty singing act. 
The voices are good,but the act is very poorly arranged and executed. Went fair at matinee and good at night. The talking is poor.

Burt and Malve ne.
Man and woman in rapid-fire vaudeville. Singing,dancing and talking
Wooden-shoe dancing. Man does a change to blackface before the audience and is very good. About 15 minutes.Costume changes are good.

The Battle Of Bay Rum.
Two men and four supers.special set in full  stage. 20 minutes.
A talking act,with a laugh in every line. This is the seasons' s biggest laughing hit. Travesty on a warship. This is not the original company. Went over very big.

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209 [preprinted] SCENIC TEMPLE Vaudeville and Motion Pictures EXEC. OFFICE: UNION THEATRE UNION STREET PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND MAIN STREET PHONE PAWTUCKET 356 Pawtucket, R. I. [/preprinted] Report On Acts Playing Pawt. Scenic Temple Mon. Tues. Wed. Oct. 6,7,8, 1913. Show seen by C.L.McNally. Matnee & Eve. Oxford Trio (3) Men work in full stage nine minutes. Basket Ball played on bicycles by two men while the third acts as referee and furnishes quite a little comedy at the same time The game is exciting and is a very good novelty Went Good. Florence Ackley/ Works in one 10 Min. Act Billed as Classy singer of Classy songs Miss. Ackley has a very pleasing voice and renders very well three songs Act Pleased. Anderson & Evans (2) Men work in full stage center door fancy Act entitled"On The Rocks" Act is a comedy sketch with quite a few laughs through same, Actb deals with a couple of actors out off work Scene in there room. Went fair matnee Went better at night. ^[Wheeler] Earle, ^[Vera] Curtis Co. (2) Men 1 Woman work in special drop full stage Aneat talking singing and dancing skit entitled" The drummer and the girl." This act is a pecular kind of an act and is a hard act to talk on . Takl is catchy; woman a fair singer ; man seems to have a cold. One member of act does very little,acting as a bell hop. Act went over good. [preprinted] Pawtucket, R. I. [/preprinted] Report on acts playing The Scenic Temple, Beginning Oct.9,1913. E.J.Appleby. Works 12 minutes in one. Banjoist. He gets the music all right, but his work lacks snap,and is very dead. Went fair at matinee, and good at night. Rober and Tenison. Man and woman,work in one 15 minutes. Travesty singing act. The voices are good,but the act is very poorly arranged and executed. Went fair at matinee and good at night. The talking is poor. Burt and Malve ne. Man and woman in rapid-fire vaudeville. Singing,dancing and talking Wooden-shoe dancing. Man does a change to blackface before the audience and is very good. About 15 minutes.Costume changes are good. The Battle Of Bay Rum. Two men and four supers.special set in full stage. 20 minutes. A talking act,with a laugh in every line. This is the seasons' s biggest laughing hit. Travesty on a warship. This is not the original company. Went over very big.