The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-04-07
Drill Shed Crowded Saturday
Night.
SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE.
II -ceipts Large-A Few BreahS-Spe-
cialtie- Were Excellent = Over
sinner and vierra and jackson

The minstrel performance Civ
en- by members of Company ID. n.
G. H.. at the drill shed Saturday
night, was. in the main, good, but
unfortunately. there was suspi
cion of crudeness. crude even for
Iamateurs. in some parts of the en-
tertainment.
The stage and scenery were a
surprise to a majority of the aud
fence, because it was not expect
ed that the boys would go TO such
extremes iii preparing for the en-
tertainment.
The scenery. painted by Rich
ard Westoby, of Company ID,
would do credit to the opera house
and well 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 in the design of
the building.
| The eight comedians were garb-
ed in boomers of figured red ma
terial 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
or members of the company wore
black dress coats and black satin
knee brooches. 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-
my, to the ''Darktown, COl0red
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
Overshiner when he finished his
song, "Mah Angeline." with q very
good specimen of buck and wing
dancing. The young man is
member of Company + of the reg
ulars, and has been on the stage
before.
The ballad-singing by Messrs.
Hoogs, Cuelho and Jones was
very good, and these gentlemen
may be especially mentioned as
contributing largely toward the
pleasures of the evening.
OF the end men, apart from
Overshiner, whose status is SO
close to that of professional that
it would be hard to get knife
blade in between the lines, il
would be difficult to say who of
the remaining seven-W. H.
Charlock, j. Mcguire, j. w.
Thompson, U. J. Ordway, FL. vi
Terra, C. Fl. Ramsey or Chip Char
lock, was the best. Each one was
a good minstrel in an amateur
way.
i The three acts in the Olio, by
DIR. Moore, Vierra and Jackson,
and U. j. Ordway were very good
indeed. As Chinese imitators,
Vierra and Jackson were so well
liked that they were forced to re-
spOnd to an encore.
Had the entertainment closed
with Nr. Ordway's act the audi
ence would have been satisfied,
for the afterpiece was much like
aged and decrepid cheese at the
end of an excellent dinner-it left
a bad taste in the mouths of the
audience.
In the hands of professionals
something might have been made
of this badly conceived bit of
nothing called the "GOthenberg
System dignified by being cat
alOgued as farce. But with anna
teurs, who, having committed
their lines to memory, neglected
to introduce business into the bar
room scene, it fell on the audi
ence with the proverbial dull thud
on what seemed to be a phenome-
nally warm audience.
To A. E. Murphy is due credit
as stage manager. for the admira-
BILE costumes and stage arrange
ments, and to Dick Westoby, for
appropriate scenery and effects.
For the general working up. in a