Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It would seem that there is something
wanting in the management of the University
Of Michigan Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs
or else a lack of team work. on the part
of Ann Arbor alumni in Omaha, for a good
program of college music was never pre-
sented to a smaller audience than that which
occupied a few of the seats AT Boyd's last
night There were no banners, no stream
ers nor twined ribbons of yellow and blue,
no stage boxes radiant with girish lowell
ness and garnished with matronly propriety,
no visiting between numbers by jaded but
still eager youths; none Of the usual concomi-
tants Of a glee club concert except the un-
bounded enthusiasm displayed by the meager
audience, which clapped its few poor dozens
of hands at every opportunity to the blis-
terng point
Ann Arbor has sent out many organi-
cations of this kind on tours for fame and
lucre, and never a bad one among them.
The clubs which are just now finishing their
season Of 1886 are among the best which
have come, not only from the University of
Michigan, but from any c5Iege whatsoever
to Omaha. With any sort of management,
or any amount of judicious advertising, they
could have filled Boyd's almost with Michi-
gan men. 1t is hoped that they may be
heard here again next season under auspices
better calculated to stimulate them to large
achievements.
That Is not to say, however, that these
young men did not do well last night, or
seemed to be seriously daunted by the SER
rled ranks Of empty plush chairs in the front.
Their program was popular one, full OF
college nonsense songs, marcnes two-steps
and negro melodies, which were rendered by
all the clubs with more technical accuracy
than is looked for at such times and with
an amount of ginger which offset any
shortcomings which were apparent to the
critical ear. Every number was encored at
least once, and the clubs would doubtless be
performing yet If they had gratlfed all de-
mands. Mr.. Pease, with an agreeable bari
tone voice, was well liked In several solos,
and Mr.. Miner, who has a good natural
equipment as a comedian, made hit OF
great magnitude in comic songs.
The combination appears in Cedar Rapids
tonight, wiere the tour will close.
An entertainment is to be given in the
auditorium OF the Young Mems Christian
association by three ladies from Tabor col
lege Tuesday, April 49, Miss Sylvia NJ.
Drake, graduate Of the New England Con-
servatory of Music, a soprano; Miss Palmer,
a pianist, we'll known in Iowa musical cir
cles, and Mrs, Jessie Brown Dorward, who
has read before Omaha audiences several
times within the last year.
Vaudeville will be the drawing card at the
Creighton all next week, commencing with a
low priced matinee tomorrow at 2:3O, when
Spence's Transoceanic troupe opens an en-
gagement at that theater. The company in
cludes Lewis and Boswell, Ahern and Pat
rick, Signor Ajax, La Reno and Norma, Kit
d. Wilson, Newman and Waldron and Hamil-
ton and Wiley. The program will be en-
tirey changed with each performance The
uFual Wednesday and Saturday matinees will
be given.
Xaver Scharwenka, court pianist to the
emperor OF Austria, and one OF the most
famous of living pianists will give concert