St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-29
ELKs' ANNUAL BENEFIT.
Delightful Programme Set Before
n Fine Audience.


The performance at the Grand opera house
yesterday afternoon for the benefit of st. Paul
Lodge No. SO of the Brotherhood of Protective
Order of Elks proved a delightful entertain
ment. The audience was large and appreciat-
i've, the programme pleasing in its variety,
and the ladies and gentlemen who participated
in it clever. An admirable feature of the en-
tire performance was the excellent stage man
asement, which permitted of no tedious waits
between specialties. There were no bitches
no confusion, and no blunders. The various
acts and specialties were given in rapid sue
cession, scarcely moment elapsing between
the conclusion of one and the beginning of its
successor. Such smoothness in performance
OF the miscellaneous character of most benefit
entertainments is unusual and +. II. Tenney
and Harry Hardick, stage manager and as
slstant stage manager respectively, deserve
commentator therefor.
The Twin City Mandolin club initiated the
entertainment with a pretty selection and
were deservedly encored VIII ]. Dean Of
the Shore Acres company then gave an
eAceAent dialect recitation or monologue of
MS own composition. Mr.. Dean acquitted
himself well, so well in fact that he was
called back and detained until he favored his
hearers with comical sketch contrasting the
domestic disturbances between a young cou-
pie three months and three years after mar
riage. Mr.. Dean was followed bv George n
Adams, the clever clown with the 'Fantasma''
company, and his daughter, Tonina Adams
VINO VINO contributed an amusing German sketch.
entitled Knocking at the Outside Gate - Miss
Sadie Stevens and Master Orie Gerard of the
fantasma' company gave their popular
muslcai speciality, the little fellow singing
from from the gallery. They were followed by the
McDonough Brothers, of the same oreanizo
ton, who performed their startling acrobatic
leats and contorted their bodies into impos-
sible shapes. ''
James Burrows, of the "shore Acres" COM
pany' recited with fine spirit and fervor a
poem graphically describing the battle of
VI LOOKOUT Mountain" Then Newhouse and
p,ani, OF Palmer Cox's Brownies" now
pIaylhg In minneapolis delighted the audience
with musical feature consisting of a duct
WIN a guitar and mandolin Miss Olive
berkiey, of the ''Shore Acres" company. con-
tr1buted an excellent recitation. Miss Berlr-
ley is gifted with sweet and sympatbetic
voice and attractive presence. our own
ienney and Wolf were the next to fill the
scene. Iheir black face musical sketch was
wen received, and they were accorded an en-
Then from the wings out onto the big stage
loaded the cutest and sweetest little golden
Hardy, one of the children of whom IJncIe
Nat in Shore Acres" is so fond. This tot
sang popular ballad with marvellous distinct
ness, and recited one of Eugene Field'e met
ty rhyming stories with an Intelligent en-
phasis and expression little short of phenom-
waited.
The next on the programme was Franklin
w: Lee, who contributed a humorous and
original monologue in rhyme on the Venezue-
ian question Following Mr.. Lee. the Elk
H. r.. Hardick, w. ]. Tomkins and Robert
Parrish, gave neat and genteel black face
act; in which they displayed surprising grace
and highiy colored female attire. T. C. Con-
nor then contributed a tenor solo more or
less familiar to the audience as was demon
strated by the spectators joining in the cho-
rus 1t was only One Girl in This World
for Me-" lady in the audience, the pos
SCISSOR of big contralto voice. could be
heard above all the singers in the chorus.
The performance concluded with the fourth
act OF The Land of the Living" in which
W s. Harkins. Myron Calico and Helen Cor
lette appeared.