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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 14, 1904 - November 21, 1904
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166 Report on show, Keith's Theatre, Providence, R. I., week of October 3, 1904. (Charles Lovenberg.) This is one of the best bills we have had this season and the advance sale indicates that it is one that the people want to see. One or two of the early acts are not very good and there is quite a little confliction right through but the audience rather liked it in spite of the fact that they were pretty dead this afternoon. I have an idea that tonight the show will go with a "howl." The Zarnes. Ring act. This is an acceptable turn to play to open the show with; but should not be rated better than fair. 12 min. full stage, 2 shows. Lambert & Pierce. Blackface comedians. These fellows don't amount to much until the very finish when they give about three minutes of pretty good eccentric dancing. The jokes that they told I heard fully thirty years ago. 15 min. in 1, 3 shows. Mooney & Holbein. This is one of the best of the three a day turns. The man is a splendid dancer, high kicker, and has rather a good comedy personality. They were very well accepted indeed. 19 min. open in 2, close in one, three shows. Bright Brothers. These men are very good as far as they go but it seems outrageous to pay the salary for what they do, which work is not as good as many others acts of the same nature, when one considers that they do only six minutes. They hardly get started before the act comes to an end. They certainly should be doing three shows. Dorothy Kenton. Banjoist. This young lady has a pleasing personality and I thought last year that she was going to turn out a pretty good act but she seems to have gone backwards. I don't like her playing as well as last season, and she is making an effort to play music which is beyond her. 10 min. in one, 2 shows. Midgley & Carlisle. It is wonderful how their old act "After School" holds on. The audience seem to like them first rate, still I should be afraid to play them here again unless they had a new sketch. 21 minutes full stage, 2 shows. Ford Sisters. These girls opened with a song which didn't amount to a great deal but which they carried very successfully on the strength of their pleasing manner. They are good looking and well dressed. At the finish they introduced a dance of about five minutes, which made the hit of the show, up to that point. It is about as good a three a day act as we get and strong enough to go on any time up to three o'clock or 8:45. 12 min. in one, 3 shows. Three Keatons. This act is well known and requires no comment. They went very strong but not as big as last year; still that applied to everything on the programme. 26 min. open full stage, close with about five minutes in one, 2 shows. in time with and nothing more. 13 min. open in three, close in one, 3 shows.
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166 Report on show, Keith's Theatre, Providence, R. I., week of October 3, 1904. (Charles Lovenberg.) This is one of the best bills we have had this season and the advance sale indicates that it is one that the people want to see. One or two of the early acts are not very good and there is quite a little confliction right through but the audience rather liked it in spite of the fact that they were pretty dead this afternoon. I have an idea that tonight the show will go with a "howl." The Zarnes. Ring act. This is an acceptable turn to play to open the show with; but should not be rated better than fair. 12 min. full stage, 2 shows. Lambert & Pierce. Blackface comedians. These fellows don't amount to much until the very finish when they give about three minutes of pretty good eccentric dancing. The jokes that they told I heard fully thirty years ago. 15 min. in 1, 3 shows. Mooney & Holbein. This is one of the best of the three a day turns. The man is a splendid dancer, high kicker, and has rather a good comedy personality. They were very well accepted indeed. 19 min. open in 2, close in one, three shows. Bright Brothers. These men are very good as far as they go but it seems outrageous to pay the salary for what they do, which work is not as good as many others acts of the same nature, when one considers that they do only six minutes. They hardly get started before the act comes to an end. They certainly should be doing three shows. Dorothy Kenton. Banjoist. This young lady has a pleasing personality and I thought last year that she was going to turn out a pretty good act but she seems to have gone backwards. I don't like her playing as well as last season, and she is making an effort to play music which is beyond her. 10 min. in one, 2 shows. Midgley & Carlisle. It is wonderful how their old act "After School" holds on. The audience seem to like them first rate, still I should be afraid to play them here again unless they had a new sketch. 21 minutes full stage, 2 shows. Ford Sisters. These girls opened with a song which didn't amount to a great deal but which they carried very successfully on the strength of their pleasing manner. They are good looking and well dressed. At the finish they introduced a dance of about five minutes, which made the hit of the show, up to that point. It is about as good a three a day act as we get and strong enough to go on any time up to three o'clock or 8:45. 12 min. in one, 3 shows. Three Keatons. This act is well known and requires no comment. They went very strong but not as big as last year; still that applied to everything on the programme. 26 min. open full stage, close with about five minutes in one, 2 shows. in time with and nothing more. 13 min. open in three, close in one, 3 shows.
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