The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-13
a TRUTHFUL
Who Wrote up q Concert in Accordance
With Facts.

a @~
exhibition of good clothes and bad music
that has grown to be a feature OF the
musical world of ShaWneetown, came
off last evening at the Opera House.
Every seat in the hall was taken, for our
patient community has become accus-
toned to this affection, and submits to
it without q Inurmur four or five times
ayear, very much as they take quinine
in the spring.
Those people who AZ stamping II
late, as usual, after the ShaWneetoWn
style, are DO be congratulated this time,
as they escaped hearing the "Arion
Quartctte" sing "Hore in Cool Croft
It 10 due to the "ArsGn Quartette,'
however, to say this was not the worst
singing of the evening. The audience
certainly thought it would be the worst;
and so, indeed, it was, until later IN the
evening the same quartette b~utchered
"Come where my Love Lies Dream
ing" IT was dreadful beyond descrip-
ton, and the deafening applause which
followed it only testified the great JOY
of the audience, on being assured that
the "Arion Quartette'' would sing no
more that evening.
Miss Abigail McGinnessy rendered .
recitatiye and aria, by Cappolo, in the
manner that has long ago become SO
sadly familiar to our suffering people,
and is always q source Of profound en-
barassment to the accompanist, who
f%oundered along last night in the pa
tient but vain hope of getting even with
the singer somewhere by scrambling
across lots, and heading her off in some
unusually prolonged run. But this was
impossible, and the singer and accompa-
mist were never within six bars of each
other during the whole of the alleged
performance. Mr.. Poundawa, the time
honored accompanist in all these affairs
by the way, did even worse than usual
last evening. We are panied to notice
that his habit Of playing on the edge Of
the piano, two inches away from the
keys, grows upon him, and he should
either change his drink or his vocation.
Mrs. Bangalon played monastery
Bells" as usual. It is disguised under
q French name in the programme; but
every ~ knows what is coming after
Mrs. Bangalon finally gets thu piano
moved into precisely the right place
which is always just where it stood be-
fore she had it moved the first time
and after seating herself for the f1ftieth
time, finally concludes to remain seated.
Mrs. Bangalon's unvarying habit of
wearing her gloves to the piano and oc-
cupying seven minutes in removing
them is not an affection. 1t is an act of
mercy and gives the people nearest the
door an opportunity to slip out before
she begins to play. The reporter of the
city press used to go out at this time;
but since Bangalon has taken to stand
ing q 1.-THE door to watch refugees, they
have, with excellent taste and better
judgment, abandoned the custom, and
silently swallowed their full cup eff mis-
cry. AS Mrs. Bangalon left the stage,
Joab Garbey, who was asleep in the gal
lery, fell off MS chair, and m~istaking the
noise for an encore, Mrs. Bangalon re-
turned and pounded out the "Maiden's
Prayer" Somebody ought to kill that
man Garbey.
Professor" Snowpost played q violin
solo-De Beriot's Seventh Air.n Eve
rybody was grateful that he didn't try
the eighth. The professor dresses like d
waiter and handles a fiddle like q gradu-
ate from a side-shoW. He is in great de-
mand at all the dances down at Wyse-
ker's Branch and the sassafras Bottoms,
and it's believed, in fact, that ali his
musical education was acquired at Dan
Coseman's st re, at the old ford, on ely
mer's creek. He is trying to get up a
c'ass in this city, and If this man at
tempts to teach u boys to play tae fid-
die as he does, he ought to be lynched.
And he will be if the I~anaboree has any
influence in musical circles.
1t was as good as q circus to hear Mad
ame Plaraplue sing Robert, tot que
Jaime IT the old lady's lungs were as
big as her feet she might sing more and
wheeze less. AS it is, candor conlpe!s us
to say that n case Of asthma weighing
PIT pounds is no artistic additi Ii to q
concert.
Miss Uppercea played the same old