The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-06
Drill Shed Crowded Saturday
Night.
A SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE.
Receipts Large-A Few Breaks-Spe-
cIalties Were Excellent - Over
sinner and VIerra and jackson.
Fine Costumes and stage Fittings.

The minstrel performance CIV
en by members of Company ID, y.
u. H.. at the drill shed Saturday
night. was, in the main, good, but
unfortunately, there was a suspi-
zion of crudeness, crude even for
amateurs, in some parts of the en-
tertainment.
The stage and scenery were Il
surprise to Il majority OF the aud
fence, because it was not expect
I'd that the boys wOuld 90 TO such
extremes in preparing for the en-
tertainment.
The SCENERY painted by Rich
ard WestOby, of Company d,
would do credit to the opera house
and we'll it might, for the artist
has painted FLATS and drops" for
a number of theatres on the
Coast. The acoustics of the drill
shed, if there are any, were not
in evidence on Saturday, and
many of the first-part sayings
were lost in the flies. The mem
bers, of the company are not, how
ever, responsible for errors made
by the architect III the design of
the building.
The first part represented sec
ton of the veranda around the Elk
ecutive building and showed the
columns which support the sec
Ond floor. Between the arches
pOtted palms were set, giving the
scene life-like appearance.
The eight comedians were garb-
ed in boomers of figured red ma
teriaI and basques of red and
white; the sleeves were eXagger
ated puffs. VIM. III. HOOgs, the
interlocutOr. was dressed in white
evening suit with knee breeches
and blue-silk stockings. The 9th
er members of the company wore
black dress coats and black satin
knee breecheS. and black stock
ingS.
The view was pleasing TO the
audience, and the songs were uni
fOrmly well rendered, from the
Thinkers Chorus" by the cOmpa-
nv, to the "Darktown COlOred
Band" by Mr.. Ordway, whose
name, by the way, was inadver-
family omitted from the program,
by whoever wrote it out for the
printers.
The hit of the first part unques-
tionably belonged TO Charlie
when he finished his
song, "Mah Angeline," with Il very
good specimen of buck and wing
The young man is a
member of Company F of the reg
ulars, and has been on the stage
before.
The allad-singing by Messrs.
HOOgS. CuelhO and Jones was
very good and these gentlemen
may be especially mentioned as
largely toward the
pleasures of the evening.
Of the end men, apart from |
Overshiner, whose status is so
dose to that of a professional that |
it would be hard to get Il knife |
blade in between the lines. it !
would be difficult to say who of
the remaining seven-W. II.
Charlock. J. Mcguire, j. w.
q. J. Ordway, H. vi
arra, c. H. Ramsey or Chip Char
lock, was the best. Each one was !
Il good minstrel in an amateur |
way.
In the matter of gags, some |
were decidedly underdone; 9th
rs were absolutely raw. But be-
-auSe. perhaps. the audience no
Iiced an appropriateness in
some of them. there was no rea |
son why one of the comedians
should be forced by other mem
DerS of the company to step to the
.ootIights and apologize for hav-
ng said that which might posi-
bly, have offended some particu
ar person. 1t was an evidence of
excessively bad Judgment on the
part of the promoters of the apol-
ICY.
The three acts i'll the oliO, by
DR.. Moore, Nierra and jackson.
md L. J. Ordway were very good
indeed. AS Chinese imitatOrs,
Vierra and Jackson We're SO we'll