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Keith-Albee managers' report book, February 27-December 11, 1911
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Week of December 4th. HIPPODROME Hodder & Son: Unusual Acrobats - Man and boy who looks like a midget. They do the usual line of hand and head balancing. Plenty good enough act to open the show. Full stage six minutes Next week - Columbus Billy Sharpe and Beatrice Turek: Singing and dancing. Singing amounts to very little. The dancing is very good. Went very good this afternoon. Good act for this spot. 12 minutes in one. Next week Kalamazoo. Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Emmett: A new ventriloquial offering. This is a very clever ventriloquial act. The lady member playing the piano is very clever. They went very big this afternoon and while he has a good deal of old stuff he has quite a bit of new material which carried his act through very nicely. 21 minutes in two - Special drop Close in one by request 3 minutes. Next week - Pittsburgh Mrs. Gene Hughes & Co.: Comedy Playlet "Youth" - This act has quite a number of good laughs, but they are too scattered. If this act could be cut down to about 15 minutes instead of 26, it would go much better. It drags too much. The audience didn't seem to care much about it at either the afternoon or evening performance. Center door fancy 26 minutes. Next week - Toledo Stella Tracey: The diminutive Prima Donna - This is a very dainty little singing act. Miss Tracey is very clever and also very pretty. Her songs are all good also her costumes. For a new act she couldn't have gone much better. She received plenty of applause at finish and had to do an encore. You will make no mistake in booking this act. She ought to be able to make good on any bill in most any spot. 12 minutes in one. Next week - Pittsburgh. Paul Durand presents G. [Mellnao's?] Sensational French Pantomime "La Somnambule" with Mlle. Nina Payne and Signor R. St. Elia: Managers take notice: If you have this act booked be sure and have a large star painted and placed over the dressing room of Miss Nina Payne, otherwise she is liable to tell you she won't go on. She arrived in Cleveland yesterday and after finding that she had been given No. 2 dressing room instead of No. 1, which is about 2 feet from No. 1, she absolutely refused to go on unless she could have No. 1. I told her to quit and pack her things. She did this. By one o'clock she had changed her mind after I had told her that none of the scenery or any of her property would leave the Theatre until she had settled for breaking her contract. Some one remarked that she had said she wanted to be an Eva Tanguay. At present she is very tame. This act is about the same as all of those French pantomime acts. While Miss Payne and Signor St. Elia are both very clever people and dance very cleverly, they didn't receive half the applause that the maid and waiter did. This is the only comedy in the act and tends to kill the dullness of the pantomime. Act seemed to finish pretty fair, although, I don't think it will draw any money for us. Special set 22 minutes P.S. Miss Payne is dressing in No. 2 Next week St. Louis. Jack Wilson Trio: Same story. A scream from start to finish. Better than ever. 29 minutes in one. Without speech. Next week Pittsburgh. Camille Trio: Comedy Bar Act. This is one of the best comedy bar acts in the business. Closed the show in fine shape 7 minutes Full stage. Next week Open
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Week of December 4th. HIPPODROME Hodder & Son: Unusual Acrobats - Man and boy who looks like a midget. They do the usual line of hand and head balancing. Plenty good enough act to open the show. Full stage six minutes Next week - Columbus Billy Sharpe and Beatrice Turek: Singing and dancing. Singing amounts to very little. The dancing is very good. Went very good this afternoon. Good act for this spot. 12 minutes in one. Next week Kalamazoo. Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Emmett: A new ventriloquial offering. This is a very clever ventriloquial act. The lady member playing the piano is very clever. They went very big this afternoon and while he has a good deal of old stuff he has quite a bit of new material which carried his act through very nicely. 21 minutes in two - Special drop Close in one by request 3 minutes. Next week - Pittsburgh Mrs. Gene Hughes & Co.: Comedy Playlet "Youth" - This act has quite a number of good laughs, but they are too scattered. If this act could be cut down to about 15 minutes instead of 26, it would go much better. It drags too much. The audience didn't seem to care much about it at either the afternoon or evening performance. Center door fancy 26 minutes. Next week - Toledo Stella Tracey: The diminutive Prima Donna - This is a very dainty little singing act. Miss Tracey is very clever and also very pretty. Her songs are all good also her costumes. For a new act she couldn't have gone much better. She received plenty of applause at finish and had to do an encore. You will make no mistake in booking this act. She ought to be able to make good on any bill in most any spot. 12 minutes in one. Next week - Pittsburgh. Paul Durand presents G. [Mellnao's?] Sensational French Pantomime "La Somnambule" with Mlle. Nina Payne and Signor R. St. Elia: Managers take notice: If you have this act booked be sure and have a large star painted and placed over the dressing room of Miss Nina Payne, otherwise she is liable to tell you she won't go on. She arrived in Cleveland yesterday and after finding that she had been given No. 2 dressing room instead of No. 1, which is about 2 feet from No. 1, she absolutely refused to go on unless she could have No. 1. I told her to quit and pack her things. She did this. By one o'clock she had changed her mind after I had told her that none of the scenery or any of her property would leave the Theatre until she had settled for breaking her contract. Some one remarked that she had said she wanted to be an Eva Tanguay. At present she is very tame. This act is about the same as all of those French pantomime acts. While Miss Payne and Signor St. Elia are both very clever people and dance very cleverly, they didn't receive half the applause that the maid and waiter did. This is the only comedy in the act and tends to kill the dullness of the pantomime. Act seemed to finish pretty fair, although, I don't think it will draw any money for us. Special set 22 minutes P.S. Miss Payne is dressing in No. 2 Next week St. Louis. Jack Wilson Trio: Same story. A scream from start to finish. Better than ever. 29 minutes in one. Without speech. Next week Pittsburgh. Camille Trio: Comedy Bar Act. This is one of the best comedy bar acts in the business. Closed the show in fine shape 7 minutes Full stage. Next week Open
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