The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-02
HOVDY, BRUDDER BONES
]. C. A. C. Men Will Wear
Burnt Cork at Their
Coming Minstrel
Show.
APOLLOs TO PLAY "FALsE SHAME
High School Dramatic Society Re-
organized-Review of the
Weeks Gayety.
APOLLOS TO PLAY "FALSE SHAME

The Importance of amateur theatricals
in modern society must be recognized.
whether or not it may be entirely APP
proved. The time has passed when it
was something quite out OF the ordinary
for a young woman to act sin public on
the stage" No one ever denied her the
sweet privilege of acting at all times and
seasons for her personal convenience. or
to disguise from her friends the real state
of her mind, but there was once a time
when vestrymen would not allow the
young folks to present a harmless farce
or an innocuous operetta in the church
p~arlors, exactly why no one quite under
stood, not V the yeStrymen themselves.
That time, thanks be to progress. is fast
passing, and audiences are no longer
forced to yawn through dialogues" or
hear some ~self-conscious young person
express her imperative desire that curfew
should not ring tonight.
1t is due largely to the rise and roRre
of amateur theatricals that the old time
"elocutionist" is fast becoming extinct.
That creation of artificial tones and JAR
leyan gestures is, at present. not in de-
maud. Tor which receive our thanks. Her
place is filed by a bright young person,
whose chief aim is to be natural-who
uniies with one or more bright young
persons in presenting a scene such as all
the audience understand, with which
they thoroughly sympathiZe. The num-
berless little sketches written for two or
more characters, such as war To the
Knife" or that clever bit of fun that Miss
Maud Chiffon and Miss Gertrude Garland
introduced q couple of years ago, are
worth more han a years season of Cur
Jews and Brier Roses and our old friend
Spartacus.
POL TO H FRONT.
That ld-time organization, the Apollo
flor in the world of change it Is quite
allowable to refer to any organized body
of more than a years standing as "old"D
the Apollo, l say, is hard at it already.
False Shame" is billed for the next at
traction. l do hope that is the proper
term to use, for these amatuer dramatic
companies are always so punctilious in
the use of stage slang, that l quite fear to
refer to anything in an ordinary way.
AT any rate, False Shame" will be
presented next. There was a great deal
of talking last year about the aching void
that was TO be left in the ApoIlo's mem
bership list by the formation of the Jer-
sey City Athletic Club Dramatic Com
pany, but the void has not ached to any
appreciaDle extent so far. The way in
which the lists of the j. G. A. G. d. C.
lave changed since they were first drawn
up is something to be viewed with amaze.
However, the main thing about the COM
pany is the important fact that it's enter
tainment was an undoubted financial
success, and after that deadering ex-
perience with amateur opera last year,
the Club certainly deselv YES to recoup in
this way.
AM n BONES.
The next venture IN amateur theatricals
~ fha T ~ A y rus1I IN ~, - I4N
different scale from the last venture. 1t
is MINISTRIES this time. real old fashioned
minstrels, such rs the j. G. A. G. used to
bring out before it took to gondoliers aud
school girls in Greenaway gowns. Per-
haps you were inveigled into going TO
Haeer's "Allegory of the Great Repub-
lie" that "grate moril snow" that holds
the Academy every June? If so, you re-
member hat the main feature of last
years performance was the evolutions of
d "Brack Brigade" under command of
Mr.. Charles Morgan. This remarkable
collection of colored freaks will exhibit
on the evenings of December 9 and 10,
when they will also present a thrilling
society drama, 1.-THE Colored 400 of Jersey
City," written by Ward McA- and
Shautsee Baloo. The talent to appear
will include Charles S. Morgan and
Frank O'Neill, tambo and sketch artists;
e. E. Pollard and Clarencs Birch, bones
dIa GhSLSA ALACO - w. AtOSdg
l~ocutor; H.. N. Morgan, plantation and
sketch artist, aud such ~soloists as Master
Benjamin Old, tie wonderful soprano of
Old Trinity, New York City. Victor
Baierrs Quartette; Will Irwin, whistler;
Robert Webb and Will Machin, tenors,
and Edward Smith. bass.
TH~EATRICALS All SCHOOL.
The High School Dramatic Society re- |
organized last night. This amateur or
ganization is as the name implies, com
posed of members aud graduates of the
Bay street school. 1t received Its first i'm
petus from the fact that Mr.. G. Fred Eye,
1872. and his friends suddenly discovered
that he made a very good amateur actor,
in the dramatic entertainment with
which each class is accustomed to line lis
treasury for commencement. Up to that
time, tneatricals had languiShed for want 4
OF leading men, for there are places
where a man is absolutely Indispensable |
although he may not do much, as, for in
stance at weddings or in a modern draw |
ing room farce" A dramatic club was
organized. with Mr.. Eye at the head. Mr..
Frel w. Decker. '92, then bloomed out in
d similar manner. Mr.. Harry Rossel de- |
veloped a talent for character work. Miss
Ami Hyatt came to the front as a clever
leading lady, and when the
signed Miss Leone Jackson, who is with
out doubt one of the most delightful
ingenues on our amateur stage. it was
ready TO compete With many another
older society. last Tuesday invitations |
were sent TO some twenty-five j. G. H. S. |
amateur Thespians TO attend a meeting
for the purpose of organizing a stock COM
pany but the weather permitted only
seven to appear. The history of the soci-
ETY. is now being written and will be sent
to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago,
with the rest of the school exhibit, bound
in one svolumeswith the histories of the
Alpha Sigma, Forensic, Historical Associ-
alton, and kindred clubs of the school.
The organizing meeting was held last
night at the school building. Quite a
number of aspiring Thespians were pres
emit. A constitution was adopted and
officers were elected as folIows:-Presi-
dent, Edward j.. Dusel; First Vice Presi-
dent, Frank H. Cole; Second Vice Presi- |
dent, Miss Stiles; Secretary, Mis- Georgia
Sweeny; Treasurer, Miss Blanche Leone
jackson. The next meeting will be held
oG Monday next. All who ars interested
in such matters and are either graduates
or members of the High School, are in
vited 10 attend.
FRIENDLY CHURCH WORKERS. DINE,
The annual supper of the Lafayette Re-
formed Church was given last night
under the auspices ofth Ladies' Friendly