The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28
IN THE LOBBY.

The concert at the White House grounds yes
rterday afternoon was largely attended, despite
the disagreeable weather, and Professor Sousa
should take it for compliment solely to him
self. Yielding to a general demand, the last
concert of the season was devoted exclusively
to the rendition of compositions Of Professor
'Sousa, and the various pieces were executed in
a manner that elected frequent applause from
the spectators. The musicians seemed TO enter
into the spirit of the occasion, and they exc
.cuted the beautiful selections apparently with
more success than they ever did before. 1t was
a musical treat.
The National Theatre people were greatly
puzzled the past week by the extraordinary
demand for seats in small area of the orches-
ira down front. They could have sold these
particular seats dozen times over for each per-
formance. The applicants, it was noticed, were
all young men, mostly members OF popular
club Late in the week it was discovered that
the seats were in such hot demand because
from them only could be obtained a particu-
larly ''fetching' view of Miss Minnie Cunning
ham in her lively dance.
The Avolo family, which performed with
Marks's Internationals at the National Theatre
last week, are very interesting people. Pro-
fessor Avolo is a retired acrobat and now de-
votes his time to training his young children in
the way they should go. This family consists
of four sons and a daughter. The elder sons
and the daughter handle the sticks with an
agility which brings charms unthought of
from the xylophone. They are known as the
Natuskies, and are supposed to be Russians.
The younger boys, fourteen and fifteen years Of
age respectively, seek public favor in the dual
capacity of boy acrobats and human monkeys.
They are bright little fellows, small for their
age wonders of muscular solidity and con-
densed acrobatic requirements. They are pre-
possessing in appearance, and didn't mind at
all giving their views of stage life to a HER
AID reporter.
Said the elder; 'We have been acting on the
bars for seven or eight years. Papa began
teaching us when we were five and six years
old. He was an acrobat himself. He invented
the triple horizontal bar, and we use it alto
gether in our performances 1 don't know that
we ale ever very timid about getting on the
bars. 1t has become so much business that
we don't feel the least hesitancy when about to
attempt feat New feats are sometimes diff
ficult to learn. Some of them it takes years
bef' we get so nearly perfect that we care to
attempt them before the public. We have had
good many fails, of course. Generally the
falls are in rehearsing There is nobody to look
at us, and we don't seem to try quite as hard
as we do when whole audience is ready to ap-
plaud Hs. Our feats are arranged as nearly as
possible to make one do as we'll as the other,
and don't think either of us evergets jealous Of
the other. The New Workers were very enthu-
siastc about us. Very often we do something
very hard and the people don't know it is hard.
That doesn't worry us much, though, and l
don't think the lack of applause discourages
us TO very great extent. In New York they
only let us play nine nights. / believe there
'Syas law against letting us act, as we were un-