Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-03-30
Entertainment! Last Evening.

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Entertainmen t Last Evening
Yesterday afternoon the Ladies'
! Guild OF the church Of Our Savior
held an Easter Market at the Opera
house and sdispe Of q considerable
amount Of fancy work. In the even
ling they gave a unique and pleasing
entertainment composed Of panto-
mime, vocal and Instrumental selec-
tfons, concluding with an amusing
farce. ss5 &
THE Old Bachelor a pantomime,
was very pleasing production in
which there were many langhable
situations none of which lost any Of
their humor as interpreted by Alex
Van Praag as the Old Bachelor.
The first scene is where the old
bachelor il in his quarters eating his
supper and shows the manner in
which these unfortunate characters
live alone and do their work. The
next is where the old bachelor, get
ting tired of ''single blessedness,"
wishes to find his long lost rib and
goes out in search OF a wife. He
calls upon u family of a mother and
six daughters, the part of mother
being we'll rendered by Mrs. CD.
Auyer. The daughters are con-
Quoted into the presence of We would
be benedict by the mother, but some
of them don't suit him. They were
either too tall, too short, or too
large, and he did not suit the other
two, but finally In the last one,
"Love" he found his ideal. The
last scene shows where he is taking
his bride home in a wheel-barrow,
which is SO oyerburdened with pres
ents in the way of squash, old shoes,
etc., that it breaks down. All the
parts were we'll taken. AS piece of
stage mechanism the rat scene
rivaled that OF "The County Fair"
This was followed by a vocal
selection "The Sea Hath Its Pearls"
by a quartette composed of Miss
Tanner, tenor; Mrs. McNair. alto:
Mr.. Hoover, tenor; and Mr.. c. H.
Brown, bass. They responded to
an encore by singing, "Sweet and
Low" The numbers were highly
pleasing as the quartette was COM
posed OF the best vocalists of the city.
Miss Landau then rendered q violin |
solo and responded to an encore,
with piano accompaniment by Mrs.
Il. landau. Miss Landau is a
violinist of the first order and the
music was highly classical. The
The "Tinker's Chorus" from robin
Hood' was rendered in costume by
Messrs. Odds, Brown, Hoover,
Thatcher and Laird. Their make up
was good and singing as usual,
excellent. The audience was highly
pleased with it and the gentlemen
to an encore. Miss Ready
rendered an excellent piano solo and
also played the accomplishments.
"The Grape Vine SWING as sung by
Messrs. Thatcher, Hoover, Odds and
Brown called for liberal applause.
''Lend Me Five Shillings,'' a farce.
was humorous indeed and is the story
OF young man Mr.. Golightly who
finds himself in the unfortunate
like most Of us nowadays,
of being in need of five shillings, and
unable to borrow from anyone. The
part was taken by MIR. D. u. Olds,
who acquitted himself admirably
and appeared perfectly at home on
the stage. There were two Mrs.
Phobbs in the play, one of whom,
Mrs. Major Phobbs, was represented
by Mrs. Y. H. Brown and the other,
Mrs. Capt. Phobbs, by Miss Manning.
Mr.. Golightly is somewhat smitten
with Mrs. Major Phobbs while
Captain Phobbs, by Prof. Tha tcher,
thinks the young man is paying
attention to his wife and a stormy
scene ensues in which explanations
straighten everything out. Mr.. II.
H. Tanner took the part of Captain
Bruce, Mr.. Hoover the part OF Mr..
Moreland and Eugene Laird, the
waiter. In the ball room scene Misses
Davidson and Ashley and Thee.
Void appeared. The farce was
we'll cast and all who took
part showed careful study. Mrs.
Brown and Mr.. Olds were in the lead
ing roles and displayed their dramatic
ability to advantage. At last
accounts Mr.. Odds as Mr.. Golightly
was unable to borrow five shillings.
The opera house was well filled and
the ladies netted a handsome sum.