The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-14
VERY LIVELY Stag.
How 1t Capered and Cavorted
at the Jersey City Club
Last Night.

The stag of the Jersey City Club, in
the handsome house at Crescent and
Clinton avenues, was a success last even
ing, from every point of view, and es-
pecially from an artistic one. The pro-
gramme originally consisted of six num-
bers, but the non-appearanee of Fisher
and Crowell, an acrobatic sketch team,
lessened it by one. A large audience
caught the gags and funny cracks
before they had fairly left the perform
ers' mouths and took them up with a
zest which must have been peculiarly
gratifying to the artists.
Everybody who could get there was on
hand and blistered palms and aching
sides were very much in order. AS usual
at the stays of this club quite as much
Turning was going on in the audience
as upon the stage. One practical Joker
loosened a rope-ladder, which had been
fastened to the balcony rail, and between
the rungs of which some one had placed
his hat. The ladder was attached to the
girders, near the root. 1t swung out into
the centre of the hall and hung the der
by, high, dry and quite out of reach,
until one of the club tigers dislodged it
with a gas lighter.
The programme was a good one. AT
about $50 p. M, Colby and Dewitt began
a rather tame turn, called a Monkey
Novelty Act, They were permitted to
depart unmolested at it's completion. Then
Maud Harvey, serlo-comic and song and
lively style. Her best song was "a Lit
tie $3.50, Also" which said a whole
lot about a very little, but which made
its hit by the many OF
John and Nellie Healy henceforth own
a large portion of the club heart, If there
is such a thing. Their negro songs were
very good and ELECTED prolonged applause.
But when, in answer to the latter. they
gave an exhibition of ~buck-dancinv they
literally brought down the house.
John, he kept a-tapping. And u tap
ping! 1t Is a custom among negro de-
~lineators for the idle member of the
team to beat time while the otner
time. Healy's tapping last night sounded
like a particularly expert and supple
wristed drummer. lie accomplished this
Of cane and both feet on the
with the disengaged hand. One Of
his steps created great merrlment.
a blase swinging of the omnipresen5
cane. In som steps John Healy seemed
SO SO he s ! ny o Tif the f laMs e Of g TaSniaaeai
~ "a $50
was he. Z,
Lillie Laurel did a clever song and
dance act, and was encored repeatedly.
The audience considerably sang the
chorus of Keep Dem Golden Gates Wide
Open for her. a kindness h seemed to
The Mimic Four compelled the artistic
Healys to divide first honors of the night
with them. They did a burlesque on
Trilby, which was strictly up to date.
Taffy's widespread whiskers Were ira.
vested by wooden ones or the face of
one of the quartette. Two others used
them for a rack on which to hang their
hats. A feature was the hypnotic in
huence which Svengali exerted over the
other three and which he claimed he ex-
tracted from the hip. He h~ypnotized the
Laird so that he could not light his
pipe. He placed Taffy under a Spell as
he sat on a chair beside a table on which
his arm rested. He then removed the
chair from beneath Taffy and left him
still in a sitting posture, unable to fall,
because he was mesmerized into the be-
lief thai the chair was still under him.
When the spell was removed he promptly
collapsed. Another act by this team was
entitled "When Parkhurst Comes to Jer-
sey City" This also made a hit.
The last number was completed at a
few minutes before eleven. The next
social event at the Jersey City Club will
be the first subscription dance on next
Thursday evening.