The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-13
lHESTAG WAS BIRD
Variety Fakirs Never Played
toESuch a Crowd as
the Fourth Turned
Out.
CHORUS or TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
Bonnie Thornton Sang a New Song
and All Old Gags Bubbled
Like New Ones.
CHORUS OF TWENTY-Fl HUNDRED

1a
The much discussed stag of the Fourth
regiment was held in the Armory Satur-
day night. 1t was the biggest kind of
q success in all ways. When the first Of
the artists made their appearance at $3.50,
over twenty-five hundred people were
seated on the folding chairs on the drill
floor and on the fixed seats in the balcony.
While the unfortunate late corners stood
In the rear. The humble of tickets TAX
en- in at the door was 2.675. 1t is safe to
say thai a larger attendance never greeted
a vaudeville entertainment.
The performance. too. was excellent.
The artists seemed to gather inspiration
from the great sea of faces and outdid
themselves in their efforts to please. The
boys were not hard to please. either. On
very short acquaintance they got on SO
well with Bonnie Thornton that she did
not have to sing the choruses of her songs
all. But then they all knew Bonnie
Of old. before her voice took on tina per-
petual hoarseness which she had to apol-
og'ze for on Saturday night.
Edward and Josie Evans opened the
entertainment with a Juvenile sketch in
which the muscular Josie swung poor Ed
ward into all sorts of positions. Josie's
very live dog took a fall out of Edwards
stuffed one, too. and left him in a sorry
condition. Miss Cora Routt looked as if
she had just dropped in from Paris. 50
ings, and sandals Of the same
afaS de- ~ matched "a mam the % deep epunag green
insisted that beautiful shade of green
was the same as that of the carpet in
not believe him. Cora was none too rich
for the blue blood Of the dandy Fourth.
and she made a decided hit.
vioiins artistically while in all manners
bounced . huge rubber bali from head 70
we'll on each others fddiees. both on the
same fiddle or each on his own while APP
but were forgotten when Lieutenant
Maxon announced as the next attraction
THE little mascot. Bonnie Thornton
the sea on Sea Girt's sands on a stormy
night at camp. The .bonny one came out
tie doll than ever in a 1aring skirt of
yellow silk that. stood out about her tiny
form in graceful folds. She sang The
did the same for '"Twiggez-vous,' but
she " gaas os, them ,y yhsn 5; she ps ssngta bran brand
Neither Miss Thornton nor any one else
had ever sung i before It was to have
D66u SuuS ny u6T lOI III uISL llulc DIT
her opening in New York this evening,
but won by the soldier boys enthusiasm,
she gave them the first change to pass
ri never sing 1t again." she said. For
tunately they liked it:
Okaber's troupe of four Japanese aero
bats won much applause. The little lad
Who climbed a pole, supported on a Wom-
ans shoulder, and was afterwards tossed
about e. IKE z ball iron from Z Ibis his father The s,5 feet
Dorr sang. (tnd danced in fetching cos
row immensely.
ton; he is we'll known. He was not
new in gags or songs, and YET, he never
grows old. He came in a cab from New
York and was lost in Lafayette on his
way to the Armory. Baldwin and DAILY,
the Happy Hottentots." came in from
Paterson to do their high kicking turn,
another old-time fayorite.
The great crowd was the most orderly
one of it's size ever gathered together.
There was no difficulty in seating them.
The four policemen present could not
have managed them if they took it into
their heads to. revolt, but that contin-
gency occurred only once. hat was
everyone OF the floor began to hop his
chair along. Soon the aisles disappear
ed, the different rows of chairs merged
into one another, and all semblance of
arrangement was lost. The sight from
the balconies when his occurred was
worth witnessing.
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the balcony, which vas marked by a
large canvas sign, WHICH decorated the
front. 1t bore the club'S name and mot
to, Gut Gemacht." Below this section,
in a large box. sat Brigadier General
P. F. Wanser, Colonel Abernethy. Lieu
tenant Colonel Boltwood, Lieutenant
tant Gerardin and Major Smith. The
members of the Street and Water Board
were there, with the exception of Presi-
dent Brown. who is still sick at his
home, and John Kaiser, whose mother
is exceedingly i'll. They were George
+; Patterson George A. Harding and
ing Of the Sinking. fund was in that
box. So were William Farrier, Judge
Herbert Potts and Editor Leach of the
Army and Navy Journal"
1t was n:30 o'clock when the last team
completed their act, after three hours
of continuous entertainment, without any
unnecessary delay. Even these We're i'm
work The stage was a model one. It
measured forty by sixteen feet and was
strong enough to stand she o~pslaugISts
made upon 1t by the TWO teams whir.1
appeared first and last on the pro-
gramme. 1t was fitted with twenty gas
bunting. 1t stood directly in front of
We're used as dressing rooms. The COM
mitteefnen responsible for the marked
success of the whole affair were Can-
tains Graft of l. and Bowker of G., Lieu
tenants Maxon of A and Christie of b
and Adjutant Bowly.
After the close of the programme the
large audience filed out and was lost to
view in ten minutes. They entered and
left by the large door on Bergen avenue.
which is opened only for regimental af-