The Lone Hand Four Aces, - or - Equal to a Royal Flush, To be acted by
A TROUPE OF EDUCATED DOGS, IN FOUR ACTS.

Miley Pleasanton Crawford, Inventor.

This scanned vaudeville act’s script is one of a number available from the American Variety Stage archive at the blessed sweetness that is American Memory.

Here’s “At the Front Door,” a comedy act in “one”, by Sam Erlich for Gorman and West, 1910.

“I’m an actor; cross my heart and hope to die; really I am; you can’t do me anything for that; I asked the janitor to wake me so that I could catch a train; he woke me an hour too early; I can swear to that; Ask my watch; you can’t do me anything for that; I got a job to sing; can I sing? O yeah, a little bit; Only a bit. (with intro) Tra la tra la la la…” (song)