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Managers' report book, November 13, 1916-January 21, 1918
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PHILADELPHIA B. F. KEITH'S OCTOBER 8, 7 PATHE. 7 min. Seven minutes of the best of the Pathe Weekly, featuring the Red Cross Parade in New York. Excellent. ASAKI. 7 min. This Jap juggler with an assistant provided seven minutes of skill and novelty which started the show off nicely. GEORGE & LILY GARDEN. 12 min. Boy and girl in xylophone numbers, featuring popular airs. Both are excellent musicians and held up the spot nicely. ELSIE WILLIAMS & CO. 18 min. "Who Was To Blame?" Miss Williams and Company presented a smart, little skit having to do with matrimonial quarrels. While it started off rather slowly, it picked up as it went along and developed into a good laughing vehicle. Well liked. MISSES LIGHTNER & NEWTON ALEXANDER. 15 min. Two attractive girls, one of whom is an excellent comedienne, assisted by Mr. Alexander in a bright, fast music and comedy offering. Everything that they did was most acceptable to today's audience and at their finish they fairly stopped the show, having to make a little speech after their piano had been taken off the stage. A hit. EIS & FRENCH. 22 min. Assisted by James Templeton and Frances French, as well as a ballet of eight good looking girls. This is the most pretentious act that Eis & French have ever given us. While the action was slowed up by the fouling of one of their curtains, the act finished in good shape and will go very well during the balance of the week. The stage settings and costuming leave nothing to be desired and the individual work of Miss Eis is always good. A pretentious offering on any vaudeville bill. COMFORT & KING. 23 min. "Coon Town Divorcons." These old favorites found it rather hard sledding for the first two or three minutes of their act, but beginning with Comfort's songs, the act started to go over and finished to a whirlwind of laughter. HANS KRONOLD. 18 min. This well known 'cellist is a Philadelphia favorite and always scores. This afternoon, well down on the bill, he received the undivided attention of the audience, was well applauded for each number and could have taken an extra encore if he cared to. CRESSY & DAYNE. 26 min. The first showing in this house of Cressy's new act, entitled, "A City Case," using Miss Hodges as an assistant. It is a typical Cressy playlet, full of laughs and held the closing spot most acceptably. At the conclusion of the act Cressy stepped out of his character and made the best six-minute speech explaining the Army Girls' Tobacco Fund movement that has been made in this house for a long while. During the war picture, which closes the show, the ushers are passing the contribution box and if the appreciation given to Mr. Cressy's first effort is any criterion to go by, the campaign should be most successful. "THE RETREAT OF THE GERMANS AT THE BATTLE OF ARRAS." Second episode. This series is more dramatic than the first and as the house stayed practically intact for the showing, there can be no question about the interest aroused by them. GENERAL REMARKS. Show as a whole went over nicely and should hold up the good business of the past weeks. CUT ELSIE WILLIAMS: Word "damn."
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PHILADELPHIA B. F. KEITH'S OCTOBER 8, 7 PATHE. 7 min. Seven minutes of the best of the Pathe Weekly, featuring the Red Cross Parade in New York. Excellent. ASAKI. 7 min. This Jap juggler with an assistant provided seven minutes of skill and novelty which started the show off nicely. GEORGE & LILY GARDEN. 12 min. Boy and girl in xylophone numbers, featuring popular airs. Both are excellent musicians and held up the spot nicely. ELSIE WILLIAMS & CO. 18 min. "Who Was To Blame?" Miss Williams and Company presented a smart, little skit having to do with matrimonial quarrels. While it started off rather slowly, it picked up as it went along and developed into a good laughing vehicle. Well liked. MISSES LIGHTNER & NEWTON ALEXANDER. 15 min. Two attractive girls, one of whom is an excellent comedienne, assisted by Mr. Alexander in a bright, fast music and comedy offering. Everything that they did was most acceptable to today's audience and at their finish they fairly stopped the show, having to make a little speech after their piano had been taken off the stage. A hit. EIS & FRENCH. 22 min. Assisted by James Templeton and Frances French, as well as a ballet of eight good looking girls. This is the most pretentious act that Eis & French have ever given us. While the action was slowed up by the fouling of one of their curtains, the act finished in good shape and will go very well during the balance of the week. The stage settings and costuming leave nothing to be desired and the individual work of Miss Eis is always good. A pretentious offering on any vaudeville bill. COMFORT & KING. 23 min. "Coon Town Divorcons." These old favorites found it rather hard sledding for the first two or three minutes of their act, but beginning with Comfort's songs, the act started to go over and finished to a whirlwind of laughter. HANS KRONOLD. 18 min. This well known 'cellist is a Philadelphia favorite and always scores. This afternoon, well down on the bill, he received the undivided attention of the audience, was well applauded for each number and could have taken an extra encore if he cared to. CRESSY & DAYNE. 26 min. The first showing in this house of Cressy's new act, entitled, "A City Case," using Miss Hodges as an assistant. It is a typical Cressy playlet, full of laughs and held the closing spot most acceptably. At the conclusion of the act Cressy stepped out of his character and made the best six-minute speech explaining the Army Girls' Tobacco Fund movement that has been made in this house for a long while. During the war picture, which closes the show, the ushers are passing the contribution box and if the appreciation given to Mr. Cressy's first effort is any criterion to go by, the campaign should be most successful. "THE RETREAT OF THE GERMANS AT THE BATTLE OF ARRAS." Second episode. This series is more dramatic than the first and as the house stayed practically intact for the showing, there can be no question about the interest aroused by them. GENERAL REMARKS. Show as a whole went over nicely and should hold up the good business of the past weeks. CUT ELSIE WILLIAMS: Word "damn."
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