Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-24

zen could be picked out; the bar was par
ticularlv we'll represented, and not few
lights of the church, including the Bishop,
who is as popular in Pittsburg as he once
was at Yale. A great many of the ladies
were in ball costume, but of these a ma
iority kept on their wraps, though the hall
was uncomfortably hot It is a fact that
Carnegie Hall is not ventilated at all. But
when they open the windows stiff necks and
colds can be had without asking.
The concert began few minutes late,
owing to the wicked perversity of mando-
lin, which had misIaid itself, but as the
audience was fashionably tardY also it was
rather fortunate than otherwise. The
Banjo Club had the honor of going to the
bat first, and led by j. j. Brooks, Jr., their
president, and a Pittsburg musician of
whom this city nav well be proud, they
scored Immediately with potpourrI from
f'Wang." When that comic opera was
heard here it seemed to contain very little
beside the gigantic DeWolf Hopper and
the Dainty Della Fox; it was left TO the
banjoists of Yale to show that Woolson
Morse wrote some pretty music in it. The
audience liked it so well that they called
for more, and for an encore obtained the
still sweeter melodies of De Koven's
"Robin Hood"
The GIee Club Took an Inning.
The glee club then sailed in with that ex-
uuisite Yale ditty Meath the Elms"
which has something of pathetic touch in
the lines:
Friendship lasts when youth must fail
Meath the elms OF dear old Yale"
A quaint little piece BY Shepard, 1.-THE
Queen of the Wrens," in which the soft,
sweet, birdlike whistle of Mr.. Solley was
the feature, led to another encore in re-
sponse to which came the merry measure
with a whistling obligato, ''The Tune of
the Light Guitar" These two numbers
brought down the house, and put everyone
in good humor to appreciate the solemn
mockery Of the college song, George
Washington. When the boys chanted the
"Amen" at the end of this tribute to the
"father of his country" there came
hush upon the audience and the Rt
Rev. Bishop Whitehead, who was in
in the gallery had TO wipe his spectacles
and look about him before he could be sure
he was not in church.. When the applause,
which broke out all the louder for the pause
before it, had died away Weidt's "When
Birds Will SteaP' was rendered with great
delicacy and skill.
The Boys Caught the Audience.
The second part began with q patrol and
dance of Rosenfeld's by the Banjo Club, and
was succeeded by waltz song of Vogel's,
which was encored, and IA Song for Brave
Old Yale" was sung in response. Then Mr..
Solley and the club sang that delicious
ballad from "Robin Hood" "The Legend
of the Chimes" and sang it SO admirably
that they had to do something else in the
same line, before they were allowed to pro-
ceed 10 the characteristic comicalities of
''Tarpaulin jacket" and "Bohunkus"
Another number in which the excellent
training of the club was manifest was the
familiar "Water-mill."
. By the time Part 3 was reached the
audience was in a greedy mood, and the
Banjo Club had to respond to three encores
after playing Gunne's "La Czarina" before
they we're allowed to retire for the even-
ing. In these final numbers the orchestral
effect was excellent, and the bass especially
enriched by the singular instrument re-
sembling bass viol in tone, which put in
a solid background for the higher strings.
Mr.. Brooks has the club in perfect control.
''The Phantom Band" with its humorous
and sonorous chorus OF 'sBoml Boml BomP
the legend of the man who tried to get
bread with one fsh-ball; the more sober
"Integer Vite'' and "Ba-a-Ba," we'll
known Yale songs, led up to a novelty in
the shape of "Down by the Riverside"
sung by Mr.. Swayne, bass, with chorus.
The Comedian of Yale.
Mr. Swayne, who has a comedians face
which is preternaturally solemn in repose,
gently Tipped co-education at Yale, which
led to girls having ''real long-haired
grinds, and told how he had been
Persuaded by words of our Chauncev.
TO put all my money on Ben,
and consequently had had surplus of had
debts. Mr.. Swayne's manner was so funny
and the song SO absurd that there were 10 nd |
cries for more, and he had to tell in song |
what he would do if he were President Of !
Yale. Some of the things were that he |
would exchange Latin and Greek for Dutch |
and Spanish, set up barrel of punch on |
the campus and go in for riotous merri- |
ment generally. This did not satisfy the
audience and Mr. Swayne gathering the
club close about him, with couple of |
guitars as accompanies, told the
touching tale of how an Irish villain 'sstole
me Sunday suit OF clothes" This served |
to show that Mr. Swayne has a brogue
n hiCh an Irish comedian uouId uaII hi. .o,,1 |