The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-01-04

On New Years eve, the F.delio club.
German musical and social club vi this
city, which, -inSe Its organic siIon mas con-
,ribu'ed largely 30 the pleasure vi Its u0e.u-
bers and Invited guesis, gave their closing
Sali at their neat ard comfortable rUOtn.
On East Main street. The Ciicens vi the
club are: Chs-. kOVk, president; Of.
S.eSMund. secretary; Cnas. kiuebsr,
TREASURER, aud = EsGck, musical dIrectoT.
The pleasures vi The evening we're varied
aud delightful. There Was dancing, vocal
aud instrumental music, humorous tab
isauI, and an original and very amusing
musi.si blrlss4oe.
In the south end of the room 4 very
convenient stage, with . large drop cur
tain, was erected, aud this gave tie room
the appearance oi = temporary theatre,
which u Was. The 6.st tsblesu presented
YES called ;he "Py1amij, y and II xss 10Th
amusing and unique. Tn. PYRAMID w.s
formed by eight living figure. male uIrm-
bers II the club. Mess. Cha. kcok,
Conrad Thiel-n, X. E,ucs, +. Sirgmunj,
Fred Helm, l.. Dechos, Cns- kiu,oeS nd
+. Bi.e;zky. They all ~oI- black pants,
white shirts aud white stocking. They
-;UoJ in the center III the st,g-, and by
means Of locking hands aud lin.ns, iuIn
cd them.eives IN the shape VI huge
pyramid, ju-t ~ il - done in tue Turner
-"ci~,y or BY the Athletes in a eiIcU-.
While thus united they all wassed and
bowed their heads in = comieai sasnner
and wished the crowd "ErvIiches Neu
Yhar."
A burlssque Of the travelling r.ius;rr!.
III Germany ei,citel rosIs III laughter
from the company and the INST urEurious
applause. the parts were en.e,sd by
Conud Thieien, Chss. kIDk an. Fred.
Bi--izsy, assisted by Mr.. Il. Eauck ut the
piano aad Fred. Helm. TLe-e German
musicians travel through the land -ins N !,
tales oi love, adventure. crime snd so;
row j: vas ''IsSe-od on tlie-.
Ministries that VA Presented, and u Ma ar
ranged 10y the EeinSers Vi the club. AL
the sc.oIs aud singers We're dressed a. mis-.
80 able trsmp-, with ro-r-tIntesi no-rs,
patches over their eyss and suits III clothes
| that = rug man would not buy. On- ~ -
dressed n wCEssn and carrie. a.at.
. organ, second had . horIid oil guitar,
! sId the iead-. bO:c "A large canvass banner,
on which w.s dTsNn q picioT!-l Iliusirs-
! lion al the story which The nir-; se.s lc!d
]; r-pr' s-H'st a email ba,: hov' Iun;iin.;
on, of The hou-s, ho,iy pursued by his irate
mother, ~ho hs. "A big butcher sniie "a hst
hand. He has Knocked down flower pct,
which 40 enr.g.s hi- female parent that she
cu;s hun Clean in two. Then Is yr..ant,,i
the scene where the biz poiiceni.n cou,es to
arrest her for muIder; the court viii. the
Judge On the bench, the string of awful
ii"r oi the death sentence the criminal IN
her cell conso!sd by priest, sni finally
the behexiej cos,.-e ON th. bier. The
leader would point 10 the iir-i picture aud
sing. in German, something like this:
'Hese Is . bad little boy; he sn.ck ell
down his mothers flower pot; re him
-kinning out to escape whaling"
Then all ,hrse with the accompaniment
Of a piano, gui.Ar and hand o-g,r, world
s,ng ia the musi Jisnsi Enu ias.. n-provok
ing msnnarr:
.'Oh, Amt he rad little hsv and ami
hi mother NAL; and won't she give hin,
q d. il she catches him. See how she IL ruiz
Mig .i.er him with the big butcher Knife ;
oh, poor little boy; won't she slice hin,
when she gets him by the b. ok hair"
This j. only an outline OF the stvle and
gives an idea of the piece The leader won't ii
tsSc.ibe each .c-ne IN the painting, the
thee would then sing q comD-at on u,
and when thev came To the pathetic parts
they would all weep and whine in the
most dismal manner, while the woman
~ho PLAYED the organ would slyly draw a
whisky h,-k from her pocket and take u
long poll .; u 10 ssSu,ge her grief. TIE
cc-tuG,s, tire maEe-uIS, the singing ard
the hunorous recitation between each
ver.e II lde ,hi. musical harissgue one OF
the Isust exiTsva saniiy fuuBv I.In.- he
Eszoo reporter eve' Witnessed, end while
it was going on the people fairly yelled
with delight. There wss not alor. hunor-
ous n,usic, foe the Germans excel in
feelings - we'll as fun. "rhe Sabbath Dsy,"
a grand chosns sung by NJ --.s. K"ok.
Bi-e'zky, Helm, Thieien, Freu,sl, Keck
and Rsuck, "a. a grand vocal piece, anc
had IL been snpg in Smith hail before
NJ large an audience ~ Seislia coaid n.
semhlr, 1t would have given pleasure and
satisfaction.
A duet, sung by M-s-rs K,ok and
Thi~len VS. also = gem, and both gentle
men have voices Of such power -nl beauty
that the BAz % hopes they msy he induced
in the future to le: them be heard by the
public out.ide their society.
The attendance wss large. everyone wss
Courteous, full % good humor aud deter
mined that the occasion Shouts contribute tn
:he pleasure OF all. Ii Wa almost 4
o'clock in the morning beior. the crowd
dispersed. At midnight a fns supper WA
served in Eauner'- restaurant, which Is jus,
below the hall, and il Wa a. heartily en-
loved - the other features Of the evening"
entert ainment.