The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-03-13
TIE HOME MINsTRELs.
They Made Good Hit and Amused the
Audience


Audience.
Dalles playgoers will ever have
pleasant recollections of the entertain
ment given by tho Commercial and
Athletic Clubs minstrels at the Vogt
last night. There was fun from be-
ginning to end, and not single hitch
to check interest in the show. The
hall was filled to overfiowing, and
when the first nun ber came on there
was scarcely standing room.
The fun was begun by the appear
ance OF Hampshire and Hartnett, in
Irish characters, and so well did they
amuse the audience that they were
called back the third time. They took
off the Celtic so well, had not their
hearers known otherwise they would
have declared the two comedians were
just over from the Emerald Isles. Al
ter the customary vegetable boquets
had been presented to those accom-
plished commedians, Harry Morse, in
the character, MADAM Hotstuff,"
gave skirt dance that was heartily
encored. Then Arthur Clarke and
Will CrOssen appeared on the stage in
German characters, taking of t: boy
and girl just over from MY Fadder
Land" and had Emperor William
been privileged to have gazed upon
them he certainly would have claimed
them as his subjects. They were called
ba Tx and executed a waltz that WAS not
altogether graceful but most amusing,
and merited the boqnet of cabbage that
was sent up from the gallery.
At the close of their dance the cur
tain fell. but before it appeared a most
bashful girl in blcomers, who chose
the euphonious cognomen of "Cissy
Sideways" She was six feet long,
blushing damsel, bedecked in flashing
colors, and it was some time before
the crowd could realize that the smll-
ing damsel was none other than the
rising young attorney, Nick Sinnott.
Nick told all about how 1--WE lalies DO
at the club" and sang My Mama Told
Me So," most charmingly, and fully
merited the head of cabbage that was
presented, though he got even on the
donor by stating that the boys all lost
their hearts on girls like him but this
was the first one to lose his head-ex-
hibiting the cabbage head.
H., ooooa1 l.,-l
ing at "Miss Sideways" Prof. R.
Harry Lonsdale appeared, and after
wasting five minutes in getting the 20
yards of glove off his left hand, deliv-
cred lecture on the money question
that made the ablest fnanciers in the
city scratch their heads, and wonder if
he got all his information from "Coin's
Financial School," Before the logic
of Prof. Lonsdale's lecture had been
fairly weighed, the "four new coons in
town" Arthur and Charlie Clark, John
Hampshire and John Hartnett gave an
ocular demonstration of the little |
of relieving hen roost of |
its fruits. Then Prof. Love gave q
lovely little song, and responding to
an encore gave what he called 'ter-
pentine" dance, a most graceful move
ment. The first half of the entertain
ment closed with an encounter between |
"Corbett' and "Fitzsimmons," In
which the latter was knocked out COM
pletely.
While the scenes were being
changed, Prof. Birgfs Ids select orches
ira rendered Life on the Mississippi
and when the curtain again raised, the
26 ninstrels were discovered in ebony
black with N. J. Sinnott as interlocu.
Tor, Frank French and John Hamp-
shire as right end men, Arthur Clark
md John Hartnett on the left. The
GOAL gage perpetrated by the end men
we're well received, and the songs that
we're rendered by the special attrac-
ions were exceptionally we'll received,
Ind each called for hearty encore
which was promptly responded to by
Zach of the singera.
The musical program rendered by
he minstrels was as follows:
" h1stling Cho us. .........-.. Entire Company
Is Gwine by the Lectric Road" "............