The herald., 1896-02-23
AT SIMPSON TABERNACLE
Fifth Entertainment of the Y. NJ. c.
Course Uiyca Last Evening

Fifth Entertainment of the Y. NJ. c.
Course Given Last Evening
The two artists, Brooks and Macy, who
have for many years received most graft
flying ovations from the press and people
throughout the United States as mutual
de!ineators of humorous poetry and poetic
humor. appeared before splendid gather
ing of the people of Los Angeles last even
ing in Simpson tabernacle, with program
of eight numbers, which, from beginning
to end, held the immense audience in a
pleased state of good humor, sympathy
and appreciation and delight.
The entertainment last evening was the
fifth in number III the course of six Civ en-
from month to month throughout the winter
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian association of Los Angeles.
The program, which contained a reper-
toire of fun, humor and pathos, in series
of recitations and songs, was as follows:
Humorous recital, Specimen Reading Class,
Macy-Mr. j. Williams Macy.
- Original poem, Old Ace-Mr. Fred Emerson
Brooks
Song, A Friar of olden Time, Russell-Mr.
Macy
Original poem, Palestine-Mr. Brooks.
Recital, Uncle Eph's Heaven written for Mr..
Macy by Brooks)-Mr. Macy
original poem Tho orthodox Team-Mr.
Brooks.
Song, Buzz Little Bee Jose phine Gro (writ
ten fot Mr. Macyl-Mr Macy;
Original poem, Pickett's Charge-Mr. Brooks
Mr.. Macy was the first to appear, and
his selections throughout, literary and mu-
sical, were of that jolly order that kept the
large audience, who were most amiable
and ready to be amused from the Begin
ming, in continued state of merriment CT
laughter. This artist. whose portraiture
was all fun, controlled his audience with
n nj Of oiprxy fhat
quite irresistible, more than in his elocu-
tionary effects at imitation in the subjects
he presented His first recital, A Speci-
men Reading Glass, showed very clearly
wherein his power lay. 1t was an imita-
ton of the manner. Gray's Elegy in a
Country Churchyard was read by q class of
students in country school. The differ
ent attitudes and faces MIR. Macy assumed
in acting the various roles of clumsy boys
and shy girls, his grimaces and funny airs
picturing them as they came forward for
their Evolutionary exhibitions were in.
imitable, and won storms of applause,
while the readings themselves were not SO
natural as they might have been.
His singing illustrated the same power,
the songs themselves rendered in beauti-
full bass voice, were not particularly
funny, but the smallest twists and changes
OF attitude had an indescribable knack of
making them decidedl, comic.
encores, the audience insisting on several
recalls at each number. One of these was
the experiences of a young married couple
at sea told to music. Another was My
Little Woman. compos I'd by George L. Os-
good of Boston.
Mr.. Brooks is very unlike his picture.
He is rather short, but extremely dignitied
and quiet looking. Underlying these
characteristics issues an element of de-
mure drollery, whose influence is very
pervading, but is altogether unlike the
broad humor of Mr.. Macy. He is like his
poems. in that he suddenly, in the gravest
or most pathetic situations, introduces
dash of quiet fun, that has half its charm
in being unexpected. In imitation or
mimicry he is not SO good. In one of his
encore selections, The Foreigners at the
Fair, which is wholly in dialect, Irish,
French, Chinese, ETC., the caricatures were
not faithful to the subjects, and it seemed
that Mr.. Brooks was more at home and
best appreciated in the presentation of his
own poems, which are the outcome of his
talents, and in the unfolding of which, his
power to sway the audience lay in that
quick manner of making but one step from
the sublime to the droll.