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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 14, 1904 - November 21, 1904
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150 [Boston] (M. J. Keating) Stereopticon, 3 shows, 8 min. in 1 -- Usual selection of interesting home and foreign views. Lambert and Pierce, 3 shows, 15 min. in 1 -- Blackface comedians, singers and dancers. Their talk does not amount to much, but the singing was fair and the dancing carried them off to great applause. It is a serviceable 3-show act. Fred Ray and Juliet Wood, 3 shows, open full stage, close in 1 -- In burlesque comedy, the closing portion of which is about as laugh-provoking as anything of the kind ever done here. I would not hesitate to put this act in the middle of the 2-show section, so far as Boston is concerned. Walter Daniels, 3 shows, 13 min. in 1 -- Impersonator of noted actors, making up in view of the audience a la Charles Fletcher. Everything he did was applauded, and he could easily go farther down the bill. Howard Brothers, 2 shows, 12 min. in 1 -- They did their straight banjo work here, refusing to cover up the names of the maker of the instruments which was prominently displayed on the stand that holds the banjos they juggle with. They claimed they had a contract with the manufacturer and that they could not do that portion of the act unless the stand was displayed and so cut it out altogether. There is a rule regarding this advertising issued by Mr. Keith some years ago and it should be lived up to. If they had been held up in the first house they appeared in we would have found out earlier that they were in the employ of the Washburn Banjo Co. As a straight banjo team they did not go so strong as some of the others whom we play. A. O. Duncan, 2 shows, 16 min. opens in 2, closes in 1 -- The best in the way of a ventriloquil comedian in America. Always up to date. Mon. Chassino, 2 shows, 12 min. full stage -- This man was making his first appearance in America and little was known about him in advance. As a hand and foot shadowgrapher he discounts any entertainer of the kind we have ever had. In fact, he begins where the others leave off. will stand big billing and make good. Shall keep him two weeks if it can be arranged. Leipzig, 3 shows, 15 min. in 1 -- Coin and card manipulator; as good as the best and miles better than most. Charles Hawtrey, 2 shows, 32 min. full stage -- Got an enthusiastic round of applause when he came on the stage. His one-act comedietta bears out the Detroit critic's endorsement that European act which has already appeared in other houses on the circuit. In Boston, at least, it is the sort of stuff that could go in any place, on the program, and in the worst possible spot in the bill today held the large audience almost intact, interesting and amusing them by turns. It is much better than 3-show value as it has been classed in other places. Comment - Show has not a weak spot from start to finish; in fact, it is the strongest the house has had for several years. Hawtrey, Mme. Slapoffski and Chassino are the particular stars, but the surrounding material leaves not a dull moment in four straight hours of show.
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150 [Boston] (M. J. Keating) Stereopticon, 3 shows, 8 min. in 1 -- Usual selection of interesting home and foreign views. Lambert and Pierce, 3 shows, 15 min. in 1 -- Blackface comedians, singers and dancers. Their talk does not amount to much, but the singing was fair and the dancing carried them off to great applause. It is a serviceable 3-show act. Fred Ray and Juliet Wood, 3 shows, open full stage, close in 1 -- In burlesque comedy, the closing portion of which is about as laugh-provoking as anything of the kind ever done here. I would not hesitate to put this act in the middle of the 2-show section, so far as Boston is concerned. Walter Daniels, 3 shows, 13 min. in 1 -- Impersonator of noted actors, making up in view of the audience a la Charles Fletcher. Everything he did was applauded, and he could easily go farther down the bill. Howard Brothers, 2 shows, 12 min. in 1 -- They did their straight banjo work here, refusing to cover up the names of the maker of the instruments which was prominently displayed on the stand that holds the banjos they juggle with. They claimed they had a contract with the manufacturer and that they could not do that portion of the act unless the stand was displayed and so cut it out altogether. There is a rule regarding this advertising issued by Mr. Keith some years ago and it should be lived up to. If they had been held up in the first house they appeared in we would have found out earlier that they were in the employ of the Washburn Banjo Co. As a straight banjo team they did not go so strong as some of the others whom we play. A. O. Duncan, 2 shows, 16 min. opens in 2, closes in 1 -- The best in the way of a ventriloquil comedian in America. Always up to date. Mon. Chassino, 2 shows, 12 min. full stage -- This man was making his first appearance in America and little was known about him in advance. As a hand and foot shadowgrapher he discounts any entertainer of the kind we have ever had. In fact, he begins where the others leave off. will stand big billing and make good. Shall keep him two weeks if it can be arranged. Leipzig, 3 shows, 15 min. in 1 -- Coin and card manipulator; as good as the best and miles better than most. Charles Hawtrey, 2 shows, 32 min. full stage -- Got an enthusiastic round of applause when he came on the stage. His one-act comedietta bears out the Detroit critic's endorsement that European act which has already appeared in other houses on the circuit. In Boston, at least, it is the sort of stuff that could go in any place, on the program, and in the worst possible spot in the bill today held the large audience almost intact, interesting and amusing them by turns. It is much better than 3-show value as it has been classed in other places. Comment - Show has not a weak spot from start to finish; in fact, it is the strongest the house has had for several years. Hawtrey, Mme. Slapoffski and Chassino are the particular stars, but the surrounding material leaves not a dull moment in four straight hours of show.
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