The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-10
PINAFoRN IN BURNT oORK.

The Elaborate and Gorgeous Minstrel
Show of the j. C. A. G.
If talent, energy and industry count for
anything the entertainment to be given
by the Jersey City Athletic Club this week
will be one OF the best minstrel shows
ever given in this city. The boys have
gone out of the beaten track trod so
many years by the conventional burnt
cork performers and have prepared some
novel and striking attractions. For gor-
geousness and attractiveness nothing
that has yet been put upon the minstrel
stage can surpass the first part Of this en-
tertainment.
When the curtain raises the stage will
be disclosed vacant, except for a tier of
seats rising one above the other like the
a-b-ab gallery of the public school. Then
in will march the Colonel and nine
dragons from patience. who viii hold
the stage for a few minutes aud then file
of to their seats. Then IN will siddle a
like number of sailors from Billie Taylor.
who. after giving their trousers the
proper hitch, and executing a sort of
sailors hornpipe, wilisfollow the dragons
to seats, leaving the stage 10 ten fat little
Japs from the Mikado.
After the Japs have done their turn the
Sergeant and nine policemen from "The
Pirates Of Penzance" will stalk in, sing
the policeman S chorus and take the seats
| left In the gallery. Then the circle and
! end men will trip in and at the invitation
of VIII Markham, the interlocutor, will
drop into their chairs. "Doc." johnson,
George r. Herrick, r.. j. Webb and j.
w. Macy, at the end, will clash their
bones and tickle their tambourines and
the show will be off with 1.-THE grand
opening overture by the company"
Over the rear centre entrance to the
stage will be an organ which will be pre-
! sided over by A. p. Preston, organist of
the Bergen Baptist Church. The first
part will consist of songs, duets and
| choruses by the company and will be
brought to close by grand ''flne-ale''
| entitled Echoes from the Barn Yard.n
Mr.. Loren Bragden will then give his inn
itation of Nine. Patti earning 81 900 a
night, and will be followed by Jack
Macy In few remarks. The Metropoli-
tan Quartette will sing. and the Dore
brothers will pick the banjo.
| At this point the audience will be af-
| forded an opportunity to rest their aching
sides preparatory to most Iaughable
burlesque in black cork of "Plnafore.' -
Loren Rragdon will be Josephine, and
| HDoc" johnson will show how Buttercup
would have acted il she had been lad y
Of culah. George 4. Hogg will be Hebe,
and George Fanon, who will be remem-
| hered tor his excellent work in 9Th
| Chimes of Normandy" and "Iolanthe''
| will fill the role of Sir Admiral Porter
! house Steak. Captain Corkconian will
be fmpersonated by George r. Herrick,
than whom none could do better, and tn &
elfire like Charlie Shone will be Bell
Bobstay
Charles Forster, the well known tenor,
will be Ralph Jackstraw and j. Williams
Macy, commonly called Humorous Jack,
will be Dick Deadeye.
The antartai in will hn s,pIar i, n
management of Franklin Clifford and
will take place Friday and Saturday
evenings, with special matinee for the
little ones on Saturday afternoon.