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Keith-Albee managers' report book, October 27, 1913-May 11, 1914
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B. F. KEITH'S HIPPODROME Week of Dec. 22, 1913 Cleveland, Ohio HERBERT GERMAINE TRIO - - 3 men. Garden in 3. 15 minutes. Work on the high bars. Plenty of style and some comedy. Good strong finish. (Indianapolis) CARSON & BROWN - - 2 men. Palace in . 15 minutes. A rather neat but conventional dance turn. Hold interest however and finish strong. (Open) C. H. O'DONNELL & CO - Sketch "Flashlight Craigin". Two men, two women. C.F.D. 4. 15 minutes. A good little sketch but not big. Holds interest throughout, with moderately strong finish. (Columbus) "JASPER" - - This is the thinking dog discovered in Cleveland a year ago by the Cleveland Press, given a trial and recommended by me and sent to New York with letters to Mr. Darling and Mr. Robinson. At that time Dixie Taylor, the dog's master would have signed up for life at a $100.00 a week. However, this is Ancient history. The dog returns to me booked from the U. B. O., and everyone who reads this criticism knows the salary. I thought a year ago that the dog was a wonderful animal and I still think so. The beauty of the act is that the master has no regular routine for the dog to follow and anyone in the audience can ask for a stunt, the master will repeat the request and the dog will do absolutely as told. The Professors at Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute have declared that the dog distinctly understands and knows the meaning of 300 different words in English. He was a big hit here. (Chicago) LADDIE CLIFF - - Palace in 1. 15 minutes. This clever entertainer is duplicating past successes (Pittsburg) JOHNNY & EMMA RAY & CO - - 5 men, 1 woman. 30 minutes. Johnny Ray lives here. He has a string of race horses as long as your arm, is a member of a dozen clubs, owns a row of beautiful homes in Rockefeller Park, which he leases to temporary millionaires, and at this time of the year can be found on the pier at Palm Beach with a fishing pole in his south paw. Why he is again working is a mystery to his Cleveland friends. The ovation he received Monday may have been due to the fact that they were all friends, for even with Johnny's great wealth he could not have hired 4000 "plants". If all his friends in Cleveland will visit him once during the week, we will not ask for any other business. The act is entitled "On the Rio Grande". He carries a special drop, a male quartet and his charming wife Emma, who still possesses enough ten carat diamonds to start Johnny in the ice business, without mortgaging any of the property. I think this act the best he has ever presented. He appears as a chicken thief on a ranch owned by his wife and after being caught by the boy scout quartet, he is court-martialed and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. The that that he says that he cannot get up that early saves his life. The act is full of good comedy and there is some good singing. (New York) RAYMOND & CAVERLY - - 2 men. Special street in 1. 15 minutes. The drop is as funny as anything in the act. The patter is all good and the team scores heavily. (Syracuse) MIRANO BROTHERS - - Wood in 4. 2 men. 15 minutes. This is another ten acre lot act. Would be good for fairs or a baseball park. It is the old Japanese perch act with the understander holding the pole in a pocket in a belt from his waist. The topman works fifty feet in the air at the end of the pole. The Flatiron Building in New York is 200 feet high, so if you can imagine yourself standing on the curb stone at Broadway and 23rd Street and looking straight up the building one quarter of the distance, you will get an idea of how easy it is for the people in the boxes and the first ten rows to enjoy the act. We are using the big full stage but the two men alone look lost on it, because the understander does not require over a five foot space in which to step around while he is doing the balancing.
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B. F. KEITH'S HIPPODROME Week of Dec. 22, 1913 Cleveland, Ohio HERBERT GERMAINE TRIO - - 3 men. Garden in 3. 15 minutes. Work on the high bars. Plenty of style and some comedy. Good strong finish. (Indianapolis) CARSON & BROWN - - 2 men. Palace in . 15 minutes. A rather neat but conventional dance turn. Hold interest however and finish strong. (Open) C. H. O'DONNELL & CO - Sketch "Flashlight Craigin". Two men, two women. C.F.D. 4. 15 minutes. A good little sketch but not big. Holds interest throughout, with moderately strong finish. (Columbus) "JASPER" - - This is the thinking dog discovered in Cleveland a year ago by the Cleveland Press, given a trial and recommended by me and sent to New York with letters to Mr. Darling and Mr. Robinson. At that time Dixie Taylor, the dog's master would have signed up for life at a $100.00 a week. However, this is Ancient history. The dog returns to me booked from the U. B. O., and everyone who reads this criticism knows the salary. I thought a year ago that the dog was a wonderful animal and I still think so. The beauty of the act is that the master has no regular routine for the dog to follow and anyone in the audience can ask for a stunt, the master will repeat the request and the dog will do absolutely as told. The Professors at Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute have declared that the dog distinctly understands and knows the meaning of 300 different words in English. He was a big hit here. (Chicago) LADDIE CLIFF - - Palace in 1. 15 minutes. This clever entertainer is duplicating past successes (Pittsburg) JOHNNY & EMMA RAY & CO - - 5 men, 1 woman. 30 minutes. Johnny Ray lives here. He has a string of race horses as long as your arm, is a member of a dozen clubs, owns a row of beautiful homes in Rockefeller Park, which he leases to temporary millionaires, and at this time of the year can be found on the pier at Palm Beach with a fishing pole in his south paw. Why he is again working is a mystery to his Cleveland friends. The ovation he received Monday may have been due to the fact that they were all friends, for even with Johnny's great wealth he could not have hired 4000 "plants". If all his friends in Cleveland will visit him once during the week, we will not ask for any other business. The act is entitled "On the Rio Grande". He carries a special drop, a male quartet and his charming wife Emma, who still possesses enough ten carat diamonds to start Johnny in the ice business, without mortgaging any of the property. I think this act the best he has ever presented. He appears as a chicken thief on a ranch owned by his wife and after being caught by the boy scout quartet, he is court-martialed and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. The that that he says that he cannot get up that early saves his life. The act is full of good comedy and there is some good singing. (New York) RAYMOND & CAVERLY - - 2 men. Special street in 1. 15 minutes. The drop is as funny as anything in the act. The patter is all good and the team scores heavily. (Syracuse) MIRANO BROTHERS - - Wood in 4. 2 men. 15 minutes. This is another ten acre lot act. Would be good for fairs or a baseball park. It is the old Japanese perch act with the understander holding the pole in a pocket in a belt from his waist. The topman works fifty feet in the air at the end of the pole. The Flatiron Building in New York is 200 feet high, so if you can imagine yourself standing on the curb stone at Broadway and 23rd Street and looking straight up the building one quarter of the distance, you will get an idea of how easy it is for the people in the boxes and the first ten rows to enjoy the act. We are using the big full stage but the two men alone look lost on it, because the understander does not require over a five foot space in which to step around while he is doing the balancing.
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