Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08
A DARKTOWN JUBILEE
The Bismarck Coon Club Presents q
Very Creditab]e Minstrel Per-
fOrmance Last Night,
Ebony Faces, Pretty Costumes, Sweet
Songs, Graceful Dances and q
General Success.
.Jud LaMOure Prpsides Over the Mock
Legislature, Which is also an
Amusing Feature.
From saturdays Daily
The Local Coon Club,


Ann Johnsing and the very SWEETEST of
the "cullud p%ussons" joined in the pre-
sentation OF u craditable minstrel per-
Torrance.
The Bismarck Coon club 10 deserving
OF unstinted praise for the manner in
which they presented the several feat
ures OF last evenings performance. All
of the persons who participated, did
themselves proud. And they, with Mrs.
Bartholomew, under whose management
the entertainment was carried out, and
Mrs. George Hughes, under which
direction the training OF the several par
%ticipants vas done, may we'll be COM
pletel.v satisfied ut the result of their
work.
The program of the black-face portion
of tho entertainment was an interesting
and laughnble succession of songs,
dances and feature work, as follows:
PART FIRST.
Opening ~%"lIcnr dem
NV " WV Yin III IlDIlb NY VIC StDH NbluI
Coon from tho Moon''.. Emogcn Mnrshmallow
Miss Frances lambert.
"Alnhnrnn Coon. Martha Washington Snowfall
q. G. Buck.
"Lingnr Longer Loo Opal Lightf0ot
Miss Kittie Gail.
"HwinHing on tho Golden Gate.
Princess Bryant
Miss Edith kcols.
PART SECOND.
Tho lnteHt dance.
BY the Ebony Twins, Topsy and Frolic.
Misses Penrl and Grace Brnithwaite.
ClnHHic Dnot............By Reuben and Cynthia
Mablo Dietrich and Ara Waggoner.
Solo-LArdiih. Black Patti
Freddie Bartholomew.
"Tlo 400 of Blackville' Drill .................
Opal Lightfoot. Melissa j ohnsing, Diana Dow
drop, Mrs. Billy Kersands.
Kathryn (nll, Lulu Shortridge, Freddie Bar
tho omew. Edith Wakomnn.
The curtain rose upon the regul alton
minstrel circle. Black faces shone
forth in all the ebony splendor of genu-
inc importation from D%arktown, and
white teeth glittered from between the
reddest OF smiling lips. The costumes
were neat and taking-short white
shirts, pretty waists, set off with a
double row Of guudy red buttons, and
with brond coat-like lapels, red chemi-
~settes, and white bow ties. Mrs. e. l..
Neal was int%erlocutrix, with w. w.
Smith, Joe Mills, G.. G. Buck and jim
!Hlncklock as end men and conversation
alists. The jokes were not numerous,
but pointed and apt. The several num-
bers on the program were we'll rendered
and received, and all heartily encored.
Miss Emogen Marshmnllow captured
all hearts, in her taking rendition Of
the "Coon From the Moon," and Martha
Washington SNOWFALL, in the alabama
Coon wa great. Opal Lightfoot was
one of the most graceful of all the as
sombled coons, and her "Linger Longer
Loo with dance accompaniment, was
taking and p~rettily executed. Princess
Bryant was Il vivucious and captivating
minstrel, and in "Swingiug on the
Golden Gate" she inspired a feeling Of
unrest in all of the male hearts in Dark
town, which will not soon subside. The
ebony twins, Topsy and Frolic, were
graceful and catchy in the dance which
opened the second part of the program,
and one of the cutest features of the
evening was the duet by Rueben and
Cynthia, which inspired hearty ap-
plnnse. LARD Il was sweetly rendered
by Black Patti. The 1900 drill was an
other especially taking feature, and GER
tniuly Opal and Melissa and Diana and
Mrs. kersands were among the SWEETEST
Of the swells, aud calculated to inspire
envy among the lesser swells of Dark
town.
The cake walk. which closed the even
ing was enthusiastically participated ID,
and thoroughly amusing. The whole OF
Darktown danced. Liza Jane was
whooped up and only Darktown knows
how. Sue and Liza and all the bellies
and beaux Of the ecu led set" joined in
the hoe down. And when the cake was
finally pouuced upon and borne off in
triumph, and the "Good Night Ladies'"
marked the farewell Of the Coon Club,
there was IL burst OF prolonged and salts
fled applause from the audience.
Among those who participated, all of
whom Are apt aud talented members of
the Coon club, we're Mrs. Z. S Neal, Mrs.
Il. d. Haskins, the Misses Steele, Call,
Frances and Birdie Lambert, Freddie
Bartholomew, Wakeman, Pearl and
Grace Bralthwaite, Mabel DIETRICH, Ep-
pinger, Ara aud Lucille Waggoner, Olive
and Grace Falkenstine, Messrs. Smith,
Blackjack, McLachlan, Buck and Mills.
In the mock legislature, which opened
the evening, the Mesdames Shortridge,
Dahl, Grant, Fi6eld, Holley and Gage
made valuable members from the woman
suffrage districts, and introduced bills
aud resolutions, tending to the further
amelioration of the political condition Of
the sex Jud LaMoure was q fitting