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Keith-Albee managers' report book, April 30, 1906 - February 4, 1907, part 1
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2. THE GREAT MAX WELSON TROUPE, Rope Performers:- 11 min. F.S. 2 shows. Three men, making a fine presentation. Their paraphenalia is rather meager, but they are very powerful fellows and look the part of gentlemen athletes. Their stunts sreceived very liberal applause, and at the close, with a particularly sensational feature, they got a stiff hand. One of the best acts of the kind in Vaudeville. MARTON GARSON, Vocalist:- 11 min,. in 1. 2 shows. An exceedingly pretty girl with a very rich and well trained voice. Her songs are very well selected and delightfully rendered. Each one of the numbers received a big hand. Filled requirements and is all to be desired. Big finish and a recall. THOS. J. RYAN-RICHFIELD CO., in "Mag Haggerty's Reception":- 19 min. F.S. 2 shows. This is a very bright sketch and well presented. Ryan's work is full of genuine humor and character study, and the applause was constant from the start to the close. The finish was strong. It would have been easy to descent into buffoonery with the situation of old Haggerty in his daughter's palace, but it was well restrained, and altogether the audience thoroughly enjoyed it. The work of the butler might be much improved upon. FRANK BUSH, The King of Storytellers:- 15 min. in 1. Got some advance applause. His stories for the most part new and all were clever and well delivered. The laughs were constant and the subject matter clean as well as bright. Held down this difficult place with good credit. Two curtain calls. HAZARDOUS GLOBE OF DEATH:- 8 min. F.S. A skeleton steel globe in which Dr. C.V. Clarke and Miss Bertha Clarke perform many interesting evolutions on bicycles, whirling hither and thither in the same directions or in opposite directions one above another and altogether an interesting feature. Aside from the closing stunt which is that of Dr. Clarke mounted on a motor cycle making lightning-like revolutions through the cage, looping-the-loop again and again, through the immense applause of the entire audience. In fact, the act made a tremendous hit, throwing Carlotta and all the other "death-defyers" in the shade. This act will draw immensely for the balance of the week. It is certainly a great sensation and a winner for that sort of a circus act. KINETOGRAPH:- TOUR OF ITALY:-A very beautiful series of pictures which only lacks a few clever explanatory remarks by a lecturer to make it doubly interesting. WINTER STRAW RIDE:- A rapid series of a popular order. Kinetograph feature on the whole is quite up to the standard. HARRY ANTRIM & YETTA PETERS, "a Tarry at Tank-Town": 18 min. F.S. 3 shows. These people were placed after the Kinetograph as it was thought they would not be strong enough to hold a better place on the bill which proved to be the case. Their comedy is lacking and the principal hands they received were on Antrim's imitations. Received a few scattered laughs, and closed pretty well. About the average run of the supper-show feature. very well with the public, considering the fact that the GLOBE OF DEATH is the most exciting thing of the kind ever seen here. The man really takes his life in his hands every time he does the act, and the audience understands this fact only too plainly.
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2. THE GREAT MAX WELSON TROUPE, Rope Performers:- 11 min. F.S. 2 shows. Three men, making a fine presentation. Their paraphenalia is rather meager, but they are very powerful fellows and look the part of gentlemen athletes. Their stunts sreceived very liberal applause, and at the close, with a particularly sensational feature, they got a stiff hand. One of the best acts of the kind in Vaudeville. MARTON GARSON, Vocalist:- 11 min,. in 1. 2 shows. An exceedingly pretty girl with a very rich and well trained voice. Her songs are very well selected and delightfully rendered. Each one of the numbers received a big hand. Filled requirements and is all to be desired. Big finish and a recall. THOS. J. RYAN-RICHFIELD CO., in "Mag Haggerty's Reception":- 19 min. F.S. 2 shows. This is a very bright sketch and well presented. Ryan's work is full of genuine humor and character study, and the applause was constant from the start to the close. The finish was strong. It would have been easy to descent into buffoonery with the situation of old Haggerty in his daughter's palace, but it was well restrained, and altogether the audience thoroughly enjoyed it. The work of the butler might be much improved upon. FRANK BUSH, The King of Storytellers:- 15 min. in 1. Got some advance applause. His stories for the most part new and all were clever and well delivered. The laughs were constant and the subject matter clean as well as bright. Held down this difficult place with good credit. Two curtain calls. HAZARDOUS GLOBE OF DEATH:- 8 min. F.S. A skeleton steel globe in which Dr. C.V. Clarke and Miss Bertha Clarke perform many interesting evolutions on bicycles, whirling hither and thither in the same directions or in opposite directions one above another and altogether an interesting feature. Aside from the closing stunt which is that of Dr. Clarke mounted on a motor cycle making lightning-like revolutions through the cage, looping-the-loop again and again, through the immense applause of the entire audience. In fact, the act made a tremendous hit, throwing Carlotta and all the other "death-defyers" in the shade. This act will draw immensely for the balance of the week. It is certainly a great sensation and a winner for that sort of a circus act. KINETOGRAPH:- TOUR OF ITALY:-A very beautiful series of pictures which only lacks a few clever explanatory remarks by a lecturer to make it doubly interesting. WINTER STRAW RIDE:- A rapid series of a popular order. Kinetograph feature on the whole is quite up to the standard. HARRY ANTRIM & YETTA PETERS, "a Tarry at Tank-Town": 18 min. F.S. 3 shows. These people were placed after the Kinetograph as it was thought they would not be strong enough to hold a better place on the bill which proved to be the case. Their comedy is lacking and the principal hands they received were on Antrim's imitations. Received a few scattered laughs, and closed pretty well. About the average run of the supper-show feature. very well with the public, considering the fact that the GLOBE OF DEATH is the most exciting thing of the kind ever seen here. The man really takes his life in his hands every time he does the act, and the audience understands this fact only too plainly.
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