The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-30
: This Weeks Attractions.

SEATTLE THEATER - Tonight and
Monday night, ClinOrd's Gaiety Co.
I'm Gay Paris."
university Minstrels. Week.
PIKE STREET THEATER - stock
Company I'm "A Kentucky Belle."
PEOPLES THEATER-yaudevi
Good theatrical business all up and down
the town is the record OF tho past week,
and Seattle people and the strangers
within our gates have found plenty OF di-
version, II that Is what they have been
looking for. Tho attraction at the Seat
tIe theater for Monday and Tuesday
nights was Black PATHS Trouba-
dours. company composed en-
tisely OF colored people Of all
shades, from the black. whose line
age starts somewhere back in the Congo
country and ia brought in az straight a
lire as a ship can be steered direct TO tie
cotton fields OF the South, to the very
liyhtest and most aesthetic tints that show
tho birth to be that OF Chicago or New
York. with an intermediate mixture OF
post-bellum influences that brings the
product up to a condition in which the
white predominates 10 such an extent that
speculation Is kept busy locating the small
portion OF pure Afrieanism that remains.
Black PATHS Troubadours is the most
pretentious affair OF it's kind that has ev-
en- been sent across the country. and 1t Is
entirely meritorious and equal In many
respects to the big farce comedies that
have been headed by the best known
white farceurs on the stage Black Patti.
herself. Is an unusual woman with an I'M
usual voice. and the quality that IL gem
orally associated with the voices OF coll
ored people Is only dlst'ngushahIe in her
extremely high notes. In all other re-
srects Madame Jones' voice shows the re-
suit of the liberal education that has been
given II. The entertainment Is one that
il best in It's musical features and the
chorus singing, particularly in relation TO
the work that does not essay opera il
good. although the higher class lyric ef-
forts were IN a considerable degree sat
isfying. Ernest Hogan IL the best colored
comedian on the stage today and beside
his really funny doings those Of BILLY Ker-
sands sink into insirnincance. Kersands'
chief claim 10 serious consideration lay I'm
the vas,ness OF his mouth a caVernous
opening into which he used 90 crowd two
or three copies OF the Chicago Times n
blanket newspaper Of 3 dozen or more
years ago. Hogan in the eyes Of many of
Frederick Douglas. and he is worth more
money than Douglass ever was. That goes
To show that the returns for frlvoitv are
usually larger than those for serious ef-
fort. Hogan gets salary of $50 a week
and is allowed the expenses of a ~ecYe-
tary or valet-probably n combination OF
both. He told me the other night that he
made SIS 40 In three months out Of the
sales Of his song. "An COons Look Alike
10 Me" and that he IS having a tremen-
dous sale for all Of his fater songs. lie
could get big money II be would sing 9TH
sr peoples songs, TO introduce them, but
no Is sensihly combining himself 10 his own
compositions ard thereby enriching him
self AMI his publishers DO not maintain
that there Is any merit In Hogan's songs
unless ~ sings them. although there is a
tunef1ll Jingle IN "An Coons'' that goes
almost anywhere. This YEAR no is boom
inR his latest work. ''Honey. You Make a
Htf with Me" and Il promises TO have
quite much ~ a run rs his first sue
cess. He gave me- COPY of this Years
song. ard the words ~ it are as follows:
got WALLER sal. sai her name is sal
And know her heart IS mine.
Case the other GBv l heard her say
"Hencv. you look - fneF'
fut v" haa fleht. last Tuesday night.
And thFn I went away
She thcaigh' vas Swtne with another sal.
So 5aese words shG di4 say.
Chorus
Honey. you made Ait wlth me-
Yea re the only niE / care 10 see,
tou'fe the reai taiuE vita me-
in3 Nou ~ duskv hshv~-
fa he as happy SIS could -
IL ycu ana CoNii as Is agree
Case. honcy. yea make A hit with NEE
I mustered ,sp plnek 10 tey NY lack.
To the race tTsek I GId ga.
het all NY isU that rnA bore would win
As | Anew be was not slow
lie was ter TO one sAoi when be vert n
the past
Ard on hlaa 6:i play
lie Ven with ease and rny babe was
pAsase3
Fer these words sire ala say.
Chorus
'Hsaey. you Es2sde a 1T VIII ne" etc.