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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 9-December 14, 1908

Page 38

38.
Temple    Detroit
April 6, 1908.
THE FOUR LESTERS.
Bicycle riding is very tame and comedy very bad. This act has no place in a first-class vaudeville house and should be relegated to the ten-cent circuit. 9 min. FS.
GRANT & HOAG.
Alf. Grant is clever and thoroughly all right but Ethel Hoag is a cold proposition, without animation, talent or even good clothes. The act received very little applause, but still it must be taken into consideration that they had a very tough spot. 20 min. in one.
MR. & MRS. MARK MURPHY.
Presenting "The Coal Strike." Very little need be said to managers about this act as Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have been before the public ever since vaudeville was called "variety," and they have not kept up to the procession. 23 min. FS.
THE KITAMURA JAPS.
While this is a good Jap act there is nothing to it to distinguish it from other Jap acts, and it is not as pretentious as the Kita Banzai troupe that we played a few months ago. They have not the variety of foot work, nor are they as skillful. 17 min. FS.
BELLE DAVIS.
This woman is a large, tall dinge, of inelegant stage presence. As a singer Mamie Remington is a Melba in comparison. She carries four colored boys, one dressed as a girl. The boys are fairly good dancers and acrobats, but the singing is a laugh. 11 min. in one.
EDWIN KEOUGH & CO.
Presenting "A Bit O'Blarney." Scenicly this is a very fine act, novel and pretty, with a dash of the weird in its dark scene where devils, dragons and hobgoblins sweep by on the drop. The acting of Keough in the first scene is acceptable, also that of the woman, but as Robispeire, in the second scene he does not show much dramatic talent. The act is all right for one season. 19 min. FS.
LEW SULLY
Appearing here for the first time in a long while in blackface. When Sully changed to blackface he evidently thought it necessary to dig up all the material he used to use in blackface for he gave us about the same act as he did when he first appeared here. 15 min. in one.
BARNOLD'S DOG & MONKEY ACT.
If Gillett stole his act from this one he did a clever bit of pilfering for he has a better act that the original, with the exception that his inebriated dog does not look as comical as Barnold's Many in our audience no doubt beleive it is the same act. 8 min. FS.

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38. Temple Detroit April 6, 1908. THE FOUR LESTERS. Bicycle riding is very tame and comedy very bad. This act has no place in a first-class vaudeville house and should be relegated to the ten-cent circuit. 9 min. FS. GRANT & HOAG. Alf. Grant is clever and thoroughly all right but Ethel Hoag is a cold proposition, without animation, talent or even good clothes. The act received very little applause, but still it must be taken into consideration that they had a very tough spot. 20 min. in one. MR. & MRS. MARK MURPHY. Presenting "The Coal Strike." Very little need be said to managers about this act as Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have been before the public ever since vaudeville was called "variety," and they have not kept up to the procession. 23 min. FS. THE KITAMURA JAPS. While this is a good Jap act there is nothing to it to distinguish it from other Jap acts, and it is not as pretentious as the Kita Banzai troupe that we played a few months ago. They have not the variety of foot work, nor are they as skillful. 17 min. FS. BELLE DAVIS. This woman is a large, tall dinge, of inelegant stage presence. As a singer Mamie Remington is a Melba in comparison. She carries four colored boys, one dressed as a girl. The boys are fairly good dancers and acrobats, but the singing is a laugh. 11 min. in one. EDWIN KEOUGH & CO. Presenting "A Bit O'Blarney." Scenicly this is a very fine act, novel and pretty, with a dash of the weird in its dark scene where devils, dragons and hobgoblins sweep by on the drop. The acting of Keough in the first scene is acceptable, also that of the woman, but as Robispeire, in the second scene he does not show much dramatic talent. The act is all right for one season. 19 min. FS. LEW SULLY Appearing here for the first time in a long while in blackface. When Sully changed to blackface he evidently thought it necessary to dig up all the material he used to use in blackface for he gave us about the same act as he did when he first appeared here. 15 min. in one. BARNOLD'S DOG & MONKEY ACT. If Gillett stole his act from this one he did a clever bit of pilfering for he has a better act that the original, with the exception that his inebriated dog does not look as comical as Barnold's Many in our audience no doubt beleive it is the same act. 8 min. FS.