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Keith-Albee managers' report book, March 9-December 14, 1908
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Boston Show, Week of Nov. 30, 1908. Carl D. Lothrop. (Monday, Nov. 30th--Evening Show.) Roberti's Animals. On at 7.12, 13 minutes full stage. A rattling good animal act. A find at the figure. His bears, dogs, ponies and monkeys all look well and work well. Good enough to open any show in America, and a closing feature for seventy percent of the houses. XX1 -2- Fred Lindsay. At 9.20, open 4 minutes in one, close 11 minutes full stage, 15 minutes in all. Special set. The greatest novelty American vaudeville has seen in many days. He claims that he is not a showman, but his act is certainly put on in a most showmanlike manner. Would that we could get something that would create as much talk every week. His work is absolutely marvelous. Personally it would seem wise to hold Lindsay in this country at the figure he is asking, ($500), for we are certainly paying as much and more to many an act without twenty-five percent of his merit, or possibilities as a newspaper proposition. XX1 Cooper and Robinson. On at 9.35, 14 minutes in one. A hit on a bill of hits. These two coons made good with a vengeance to-day. There are few acts at their money that can hold the next to closing spot in this house. XX1 Marcel's Living Art Studies. On at 9.49, 20 minutes full stage. This is not an ideal closing feature, but I felt we could afford to sacrifice it better than Lindsay, or Rock and Fulton, particularly as it is here for two weeks. There is no gain-saying the fact that it is a beautiful production, although Marcel is an absolutely impossible proposition, and he has with him a most incompetent bunch of stage people. It would be a blessing if some way could be found to put the act in the hands of a responsible party and put Marcel in restraint, for if ever there was a fit subject for a "bug-house", he is it. XX1 Kinetograph. On at 10.09. "A Basket Party."--A very good comic. "Bear Hunting"--Extremely interesting. "Parisian Life in Miniature."--A fairly good comedy novelty. Comment. An extremely good show, but a very hard one to blend and play. Would undoubtedly run much smoother, without either Scott and Wright, Rock and Fulton, or Fred Lindsay, provided that we had another A 1 act in one. As it is we have a plethora of full stage material.
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Boston Show, Week of Nov. 30, 1908. Carl D. Lothrop. (Monday, Nov. 30th--Evening Show.) Roberti's Animals. On at 7.12, 13 minutes full stage. A rattling good animal act. A find at the figure. His bears, dogs, ponies and monkeys all look well and work well. Good enough to open any show in America, and a closing feature for seventy percent of the houses. XX1 -2- Fred Lindsay. At 9.20, open 4 minutes in one, close 11 minutes full stage, 15 minutes in all. Special set. The greatest novelty American vaudeville has seen in many days. He claims that he is not a showman, but his act is certainly put on in a most showmanlike manner. Would that we could get something that would create as much talk every week. His work is absolutely marvelous. Personally it would seem wise to hold Lindsay in this country at the figure he is asking, ($500), for we are certainly paying as much and more to many an act without twenty-five percent of his merit, or possibilities as a newspaper proposition. XX1 Cooper and Robinson. On at 9.35, 14 minutes in one. A hit on a bill of hits. These two coons made good with a vengeance to-day. There are few acts at their money that can hold the next to closing spot in this house. XX1 Marcel's Living Art Studies. On at 9.49, 20 minutes full stage. This is not an ideal closing feature, but I felt we could afford to sacrifice it better than Lindsay, or Rock and Fulton, particularly as it is here for two weeks. There is no gain-saying the fact that it is a beautiful production, although Marcel is an absolutely impossible proposition, and he has with him a most incompetent bunch of stage people. It would be a blessing if some way could be found to put the act in the hands of a responsible party and put Marcel in restraint, for if ever there was a fit subject for a "bug-house", he is it. XX1 Kinetograph. On at 10.09. "A Basket Party."--A very good comic. "Bear Hunting"--Extremely interesting. "Parisian Life in Miniature."--A fairly good comedy novelty. Comment. An extremely good show, but a very hard one to blend and play. Would undoubtedly run much smoother, without either Scott and Wright, Rock and Fulton, or Fred Lindsay, provided that we had another A 1 act in one. As it is we have a plethora of full stage material.
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