The sun., 1896-10-25
MORE ABOUTTHE CHERRIES
FIVE IOWI FIRM GIRLS VINO ARE
NOW ON 1HE STAGE.

They Act Behind n Wire screen for Far.
poser OF Scir-Ptotection-Emotio OF =
Western Critic After Seeing Their Per-
formnuce - Things That Are Gniauc.
Several months ago THE Sun printed an 40
count OF the Cherry sisters OF Iowa. Tho Chor.
ries, as they nre known out on their native
heath, are five in number. They wero raised on
q farm near Cedar Rapids, Ia, and tho world in
E,nerai, or even in very small part, did not
know that II possessed them until three or four
years ago.
The girls had by that time lost their father
and mother and brother. The father and
mother died. The brother evidently got tired
waiting for death and ran away. Tho nyo
Cherries then had nothing upon winch TO w.aav
themselves except the farm and eacn otner
and they soon tired of this limited field OF
operations. They concluded to go upon tho
stage all by themselves and carve out namo and
fortune.
No sooner said than donel That is. with the
exception of tho fortune. They did 90 on the
stage; whilo ns for name, there isn't q nook or
Granny Of Iowa or the ncighborinR States where
the name of the Cherry sisters is not house.
hold word.
The efrete East cannot imagine anything like
tho entertainment these girls gave, nor conjure
UP picture Of them as they appeared at first.
Two littlo items-no not little lean give q
slight idea OF their primitive originality. They
wore knitted yarn stock kings and carpet slippersl
Since thon they have advanced to satin slippers,
but they are the Cherry sisters still. The fun
niest part Of It all is that they are In dead ear
nest over their "ent'tainments." as they
call them, and they have never been
able to why they are treated 40
huge joke. They rarely give even half OF their
printed programme, as they are generally
howled down by uproarious audiences. They
have been treated to vegetable bouquets until
they were reported rs having put up a wiro
screen In front of the STAGE They have had
wash boilers thrown from the top gallery to tho
stage; fire extinguisher was turned on them;
they have even cope to hand-to-hand encoun-
ters with their audiences, for one OF the girls,
Addie, is hot tempered and fighter. In short,
they are unique. for in spite OF all this extraor-
dinary tale, the girls are good, honest, well
meaning. and full Of pluck.
at the time that TUE SUN article was printed,
q good many people thought it was highly
imaginative newspaper story. Nevertheless the
following outburst, in which a writer on the
Quincy ull) Herald gives vent TO his emotions
after hearing the Cherries. will show how they
affect the rather excltabe Western Journalistic
" Nine years ago was called an old maid.
or all the Old ID D., cacm,lors n ,r was afraid.
But oil OF u sudden. one nee day In June,
when ,S"ns ns a.. sGs9pE z man na to my mind
But love Is only blind.
Tho other seventy-sx verses have not vet
been written by Addle Cherry. but doubtless
will be before the season is over. She Is gush-
ing gyoung thing about ninety-seven years old
and wears hair left over from a last years mat
heart A. big AS ham and as true as the Besso-
mcr steel WORKS.
she Ia not "a cherry. but n peach
n rai ipN ppk 70 .Jaa-
sic Cherry. She is whole Quart OF raoasses by
her lones ONE and when she did Iribv in u
blond wig as high as n hen house the audience
arose and cried. Outside Of Henry Irving's por-
,raya Of Simon LeUes 1t WAS The grandest thing
Forrest sang Fra Dnruio.
,Iessie Cherry is fruit and no mistake.
Ehe Cherry is hanG-painted darling. Sho
is enmesone, gladsomc. voluptuous pet. with
a wealth of feet. She was to have appeared an
last hight. but the stepladder broke and this
m oay sS m I wSr Es @ There
aud that is Lizzie Cherry.
Lizzie Cherry lsa whole lunch.
ling hefer. and the liquid depths OF her eyes
would drown any man not over seven feet high.
the stage the world seems brighter, better. sun
nier and Eiysinm not so far away.
,, "Tne he en5er,aln'nent was decidedly informal,
songs: II Jessie didn't strike a note to suit the
crowd they struck it for her.
The throng was on "A strike. They would
strike anything They would even hit n woman.
he entertainment was supposed to embrace
seven acts. but the audience npromised on
four curtains Of ten minute, each. The Cherry
girls say that they seldom finish show. The
audience gets so wrought up and their pulses
beat so high that IL puts out the gas.
There are iour herries and they are all
ripe: One "f them does not participate in the
performance. She is busy writing operas
and songs that she has not time TO act. She
says II makes her lanls sore. The girls learned
To be great artists while tending bar on their
farm in Iowa They have To keep tho bars up
tu prevent the cows from eating them.
file that her head has been turned
By the glitter and glamOr of the stage Efie
would be improved il her head were turned.
She looks first rate from behind, and her back
well. her back is a poem In three Cantos.
Jessie wears blond wig fresh from the
feather foundry. 1t is a gorgeous affair. and
her violent ruby face resembles sunset in a
straw stack. lie sic is said 10 be n real good
girl. with a conscience more earnest and pene-
trating than n mules hind leg.
But she must keep her trosseau out of our
trunk.
THE Cherry sisters gave great show. IL
hath been truly said that there is nothing like
1t on earth.
"Strong men are driven to drink"