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Keith-Albee managers' report book, October 27, 1913-May 11, 1914
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PITTSBURGH, PA. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. JAN. 19, 1914. WENTWORTH, VESTA & TEDDY. 8 minutes in One. Acrobatics with a clever trained dog. A very good opening number. WATSON & SANTOS. 16 minutes in One. Songs and Dances. Only a fair act. MORRIS CRONIN & CO. 13 minutes, special set, full stage. Mr. Cronin is the same consummate artiste as of yore. With his company of club jugglers and misshapened dwarfs, he is introducing a lot of comedy and some novel electrical effects. The introduction of the act, with its weird fireplies and its animated manikins, is a novelty undefiled. PRINCE LAI MON KIM. 11 minutes in One. Chinese Tenor Singer. This Celestial is a finished artiste. He has a sweet, sympathetic, lyric voice, sings in very good English, has a good class of songs, and adds, as a comedy number, "The Ragtime Violin" in Chinese language. WILL M. CRESSY and BLANCHE DAYNE. 24 minutes, special set. "The Man Who Remembered." This sketch has been touted as the best thing Mr. Cressy has done, and while it is a pleasing act, with the usual Cressy quiet punch at the finish, it by no means measures up to "Bill Biffin's Baby," "Town Hall To-night," "The Village Lawyer," or any of the other Cressy playlets in which this clever pair have played here. SALLIE FISHER. 17 minutes in One. Special Plush Drop. Character songs with changes of costume for each number. Miss Fisher is a likeable looking girl with a mellow, sweet voice and a good selection of songs. After a rather tame opening with an Indian number, she goes big with a medley of light opera selections and a quiet "Anti Rag Time Girl" number. I consider her an acquisition. ADELAIDE and HIGHES. 18 minutes, full stage. Classical dancing. Two numbers,- "Teasing,"- a boy and girl juvenile number in a sylvan setting, and "The Spark of Life," an oriental tragedy. Adelaide is certainly the best of all the classical dancers we have played, from a box office standpoint, and also from the viewpoint of entertainment. HOWARD & RATLIFF. Assisted by Miss Hayden. 16 minutes in One, special drop. Songs, dances and patter. A rough, roystering act with Mr. Howard in his familiar part of an inebriate. A little coarse, perhaps, for a bill of this kind, but, nevertheless, a very funny number which got over handsomely. MAREENA and DELTON BROS. 9 minutes, full stage, palace. This is advanced acrobatics with comedy. The two young men who do the straight acrobatic feats are leaders in their line, and the contortion comedian keeps our audience in good humor. It is a pity this act could not be played in the middle of the bill. MOVING PICTURES. A film depicting the athletic activities of the students of the University of Pittsburgh, is at the Grand this week, because of its local timeliness.
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PITTSBURGH, PA. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. JAN. 19, 1914. WENTWORTH, VESTA & TEDDY. 8 minutes in One. Acrobatics with a clever trained dog. A very good opening number. WATSON & SANTOS. 16 minutes in One. Songs and Dances. Only a fair act. MORRIS CRONIN & CO. 13 minutes, special set, full stage. Mr. Cronin is the same consummate artiste as of yore. With his company of club jugglers and misshapened dwarfs, he is introducing a lot of comedy and some novel electrical effects. The introduction of the act, with its weird fireplies and its animated manikins, is a novelty undefiled. PRINCE LAI MON KIM. 11 minutes in One. Chinese Tenor Singer. This Celestial is a finished artiste. He has a sweet, sympathetic, lyric voice, sings in very good English, has a good class of songs, and adds, as a comedy number, "The Ragtime Violin" in Chinese language. WILL M. CRESSY and BLANCHE DAYNE. 24 minutes, special set. "The Man Who Remembered." This sketch has been touted as the best thing Mr. Cressy has done, and while it is a pleasing act, with the usual Cressy quiet punch at the finish, it by no means measures up to "Bill Biffin's Baby," "Town Hall To-night," "The Village Lawyer," or any of the other Cressy playlets in which this clever pair have played here. SALLIE FISHER. 17 minutes in One. Special Plush Drop. Character songs with changes of costume for each number. Miss Fisher is a likeable looking girl with a mellow, sweet voice and a good selection of songs. After a rather tame opening with an Indian number, she goes big with a medley of light opera selections and a quiet "Anti Rag Time Girl" number. I consider her an acquisition. ADELAIDE and HIGHES. 18 minutes, full stage. Classical dancing. Two numbers,- "Teasing,"- a boy and girl juvenile number in a sylvan setting, and "The Spark of Life," an oriental tragedy. Adelaide is certainly the best of all the classical dancers we have played, from a box office standpoint, and also from the viewpoint of entertainment. HOWARD & RATLIFF. Assisted by Miss Hayden. 16 minutes in One, special drop. Songs, dances and patter. A rough, roystering act with Mr. Howard in his familiar part of an inebriate. A little coarse, perhaps, for a bill of this kind, but, nevertheless, a very funny number which got over handsomely. MAREENA and DELTON BROS. 9 minutes, full stage, palace. This is advanced acrobatics with comedy. The two young men who do the straight acrobatic feats are leaders in their line, and the contortion comedian keeps our audience in good humor. It is a pity this act could not be played in the middle of the bill. MOVING PICTURES. A film depicting the athletic activities of the students of the University of Pittsburgh, is at the Grand this week, because of its local timeliness.
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