The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-20
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BY Major Sam Brubaker, and headed by
the Opera House band, was the great.
est minstrel parade ever G here.
No travelling company could carry such
Il regiment oil more or less good looking
men, with high hats and long busters.
Major Brubaker has had experience
rs commander Of paradcs, and the dis
play reflected credit on him. 1t has
been many q day siuce any parade Mt
,ractcd as much attontion.IsE
The Opera House last night was
crowded with IN audience which would
have fattercl any professional company,
and it is seldom that any company re-
ceives from such an audience such All
ovation as was given the amateur per.
formers last night. S
The first part was all good. The jokes
were fresh and bright-which can DO
said Of as few professional minstrel
troupes as OF patent medicine almanacs.
The end men acquitted themselves more
than creditably, especially Mcclure,
Sheppard and Warner. Thebones were
handled by Will T.. Day,ERobert D..
Sheppard, Will Fl. CasseIl! and Tom
Wolvington, and tho tombos by Harry
W. Mcclure. Mike Warner, Robert @.
Haase and Robert b. Simpson.
The first part was as follows:
Opening Chorus.
1 lSfiaGn TTIn S;i;i MIMI SI,yIiI ro ssI"isnm
Plantation Melody. ..............R D.. Sheppard
soIree dc Musicale. .......W 3. Day
song-l am King DER Land and Sca.....
Harry Sweeney
Ballad-"NaFsuoFito de MurphinrHy'IS I IISn s,1 -.
Comic sons-Drill ye Terriers, Drlll-..;;.;:,
'''N 80 'NSN $50 ll'A' ssehHs. i: zulauff
Mr.. Castlcman, Mr.. Sheppard, Mr..
Day, Mr.. Sweeney, Mr.. Mcclure, Mr..
Warner and Mr.. Zulauf all asung we'll.
drill, Ye Terriers" was especially en-
joyed, and Mr.. McLure's song and dance
brought down the house.
The stage setting was beautiful. Sew
eral OF the boys got rich bouquets, but
the richest OF all was Harry McLure's
live one and the one on q ira v.
The closing chorus, "The5 Old Oaken
Bucket" had some surprising features.
The only improvement on'Ethe whole
first part that could be suggested would
be, "Loudcr!!"
The, olio was decidedly creditable.
The base ball business Of Day, Shep-
part and Warner was funny. Mr..
Franzhcim's dual role shakespearean
act was SO amusing that half OF the del
icate humor was drowned BY tho
laughter. Mr.. N1iller's club and Ian
tern swinging was graceful and artistic.
The "eccentricities" OF Day and Shep-
pard made the audience laughits sides
sore. The horizontal bar act OF Messrs.
Loos, straub, kober and Miller was
loudly encored and deserved it. Mr..
Arnett's sketch. Disputes" is really
Very clever, and both he and Miss Hath
leen Maxwell acted their parts well.
Mr.. Warner and the two picaninnies,
who did statue acts in the first part,
gave q fine dancing act, and tho boat
race scenery was nicely made and
worked, and was appropriatelyfollowel
by Mr.. Regan's negro costume song.
M!essrs. Straub and Kober did good
work on chair pyramids and at; balanc-
ing, and Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith; gave a
trapeze act which would make. aleading
feature OF 4 first class show. 1"cF
Altogether the affair did great credit
to the committee, which was composed
Of Messrs,, Will 3. Day, Nate Foil, Will
lam Lathrop, r. D.. Sheppard, John
Richardson, 9. r. Tracey, chairman,
and Doctor John R, Pipes, secretary.
The performance will be-rcpeated
TINS evening, and no doubt the house
Will again be packed to the doors.
Last evenings Steubenviue Herald
says: S%teubenville Lodge, No. 23l, B.
~ L., 90 to Wheeling tomorrow on
visit to Wheeling lodge, whose; guests
'Iney will DO while in the Nail City.
iiey expect TO have an excellent time
rs Eiks, returning with severalSWheel-