The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-30
A WARM CROWD.
The Ladies' Minstrel Show Last
Thursday Evening.

lHC LdulcS mlnSlTcl 0NOW Last
Thursday Evening.
It was warm crowd. If the charm
ing members of the feminine gender,
around whom, the finest feathers of
the leading modistes of the country
are given their best appearance, are to
discard the gowns of show, are to as
sumo roles heretofore entrusted al
most entirely to the stronger sex, are
to don the burnt cork, the loose
gowns, the red hose, and occasionally
give one of those wicked little kicks
that every person on the bald headed
or banana row, is SO anxiously and ex-
pectantly waiting for, just to get
possible glimpse at slight bit of the
whitest lingerie, it must be admitted
by all who witnessed the minstrel
show given by the ladies of the Eu-
terpean club at the opera house last
Thursday evening that Redwood Falls
not only has the material for min
strelsy but that the material was pres
ent on that evening in it's gaudiest and
most grandiloquent and Hawaiian
sense. We gazed in wonder at the
rapid advancement of the feminine
gender into the roles of the masculine,
we applauded the daintiest kick, the
most pleasing charmer, and we voted
the cake away to the person who
made the most grotesque appearance
in the celebrated cake walk. For a
moment we stopped to think what
other people might think, but new
dash would change the thoughts into
the hilarious vein of the occasion.
The show opened with the proverb-
ial first part, without which no min
strel show could be success. It was
big crowd of burnt cork artistes that
was presented to the audience. With
Mrs. H. N. Bell, the only woman in
white as interlocutor, high up in the
center back, before her about 80 mem
bers of the club in gowns of pure
white and faces and hands of burnt
cork and black gloves, and with Mes
danes E. @. Patterson and 0. w. Nc
MILAN with the bones as west end
men, and Mrs. G.. R. Pease and Miss
Carrie Isham as east end men with the
tambourines, this novel and striking
crowd of impersonators made it's bow.
The opening chorus was "Swinging on
de Golden Gate," and was full of
darkey life and vigor. During this
striking first part the end men bios
somed out with some clever and hu-
morous jokes and puns, nearly all To-
cal, and each joke was we'll received.
Each end man did a song and dance
turn that pleased everybody, particu-
larly the banana row as evidenced
from the fact that the latter kept up a
continual fusilade of bananas at the
artistes. During this part, also, some
of the other members of the club ap-
peared in song and dance, and Miss
Grace Clark easily walked off with
the honors. She had more darkey
dash in her song and dance than
could have been found anywhere ex-
cept in the mythical Miss Angelina
herself. Petite Dolly Kellam sang
"Ambalena Snow" Miss Ethel King
"Sweet Hearts of Mine," Miss Jessie
Waldron "Coon from de Moon," and
Miss Fannie Rowe "Dis Coon Lubs
o."
:, The Darktown Glee club and the
Ten Little Niggers composed the Sec
ond part of the entertainment. The
former was composed. of the end men
of the first part and they we're obliged
to respond to an encore, during which
huge bunch of bananas we're thrown
on the stage from the banana row.
The glee club, not bit embarrassed,
shouldered the bunch, and hoped off