Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-12-10
A DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.
The Licdcrkranz Draw q Very Largo
Audience to Their Hall.

The L4icdcrkranZ Draw Very Largo
Audience to Their Hall.
To usher in the tenth winter season In
betting manner, the Lancaster Lieder-
kranz arranged o dramatic entertainment,
which was followed by q sociable on Mon
day evening, which was attende by far the
largest assemblage that popular singing
society ever drew together. AS early IN
eight o'clock every available seat In the
hall was taken. and when, twenty minutes
later, Grosh's orchestra--which had been
enlarged for the occasion-pealed forth the
melodious strains of G.. Mueller's overture,
"The Contest" an audience had gathered
which crowded tho room to the doors.
The performance of a German comedy In
one act and Ave scenes entitled Pride
viii Have Fall: or, The Jolly Tinker"
was highly enjoyable and held the interest
Of the audience to the end. The various
performers acted their roles quite credita-
bly,. The story of the comedy, simply told,
was something like this: A young and
rising merchant, Emil Miller, betrothed to
Bertha Miss Julia Peters), the daughter of
prlvy councillor, who are as thick as flies
in Germany, on returning from lengthy
business trip finds that the lady OF his
heart has put on French airs and looks
down upon her ardent lover AS being too
lowly TO WOO for her hand. She declares
she will marry only an earl or duke,
and no one else. Emil Is almost heart
broken over this unexpected disclosure,
but, after some reflection finds way
out i..of the difficulty. Meeting an old
acquaintance, jolly perambnlating tinker
whom he has befriended various times, he
pours out the story of his woe to him and
induces the tinker Hans (Mr. Victor Roth
10 assume the guise of II count, make love
to his lady and win her for him. Quite
naturally the uncouth tinker feels out of
place in the elegant dress of count, and
the ensuing scene between bertha, her
man sarvapt .Iohuuu mfr. VIM r.
Freberg), himself and valet (Mr. Edw.
Koin1, who nets as his prompter,
were indeed ludicrous. Finally the
tinker, feeling quite weary, discloses to
Bertha the true situation, who, however,
believes him to be jesting and asks Of him
10 take her to his castle and noble relatives.
The last scene represented the camp Of the
tinker's chums, all queer looking knights
Of the road, who sang chorus in. good
style. The tinker and bis.bride, whose eyes
have now opened and who r,ies her foolish
step from the bottom of hor heart, appears
among them. Emil, the discarded lover
Of Bertha, now steps out from among tho
followers OF Hams, tho tinker, tells her of
his little trick, convinces her that all WAS
sham, presses his suit with more feryor than
ever, and the curtain falls on happy,
loving couple resolving the congratulations
of Hans and his band. The whole wound
up with a tableau.
Between each scene the orchestra played
q selection. The costumes in the play
were appropriate, and came partly
from the establishment Of Mrs.
Liller. Alter the performance, which
lasted an hour and half, the hall was
cleared for the dancers, and good cheer
reigned both up and down stairs until the
wee small hours of the morning. The
Liederkranz society can justly DO proud OF
the unprecedented success achieyedlby this
dramatic entertainments.