The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-06
THE MINSTREL SHOW.
BLACK FACED ARTISTS MAKE A
DECIDED HIT.
SEVERAL WARM SHOTS FIRED
House Packed to the Doors by Admitting
Friends of the Performers.-Chief
Stemm Makes a Hit as
Soloist

Rhode opera house was packed to
the doors Saturday night on the occa-
sion of tho minstrel show, given by
the ladies of st. James church, and
everyone in the large audience was
we'll repaid for attending. From first
to last the performance was first class
in every particular, and the local hits
were fully appreciated by the audience.
When the curtain went up at $50
the old minstrel olio was in full swing.
End men and bones chatted away to
the interlocutor with as much dash as
if the performers had been followers of
Billy Barlow for many years.
Miss Susie Rowe as interlocutor was
the decided hit of the evening. Her
magnificent stage appearance and
witty sayings quite brought down the
house. SILK
Of course some of the jokes cracked
by the end men and end women had a
distinct flavor of age, but the crowd
didn't care for that at ALL Joe Rhode
opened the musical part of the enter
tainment by singing the Ragmala, q
negro Oddity in the chorus of which
jig was introduced by Misses Everett
and Ward and Messrs. Conley and
Rhode. 1t required two encores of
the Ragmala to satisfy the crowd.
Harry Kupter in his song Let Me
Kiss Your Tears Away" proved him
self a rip roaring favorite, and Mr..
Truax song, a base solo entitled
" Pearls" called forth an encore.
Fred Madison sang Gust Tell Them
That You Saw Me-" in way that
quite caught the spirits of the crowd,
and they shouted for more until the
end mans stock of this melody was
quite exhausted. Here the end men
and end women took the matter in
hand and proceeded to hit off all the
local celebrities from Mayor Culley and
City Attorney Bohmrich down TO the
representatives of the press. These
local punches were very appropriate,
and some of them hit good and hard.
Miss Sarah Ward, Kenosha's favorite
negro melody singer, sang Manmy's
Little Pumpkin Colored Coon" which
was followed by Frank Swift in " Wait
ing for Letter Day by Day" w. NJ.
P. Davis sang " Let EN- Alone" and
Misses Everett and Mcintyre closed
the speciality program with" "I Love
You in the Same Old Way" and " Hon
ey Youse Ma Lady Love-" both of
which called forth hearty encores. THE
first part ended by the entire company
of black faced comedians singing the
+" Star Spangled Banner" with a pretty
tableau of Liberty Enlightening the
World. e..,..... a.!f
The second part was the part that
caused the most merriment. 1t
opened with a topical song by Chief of
Police Stemm, entitled Up Went
OConnOr," which proved to be a great
fun producer The chief made quite u
reputation as a soloist and got the
hearty applause Of the audience.
The lobster scope produced no end
of laughter and Joe Newhouse followed
with one of his characteristic stump
speeches, which showed how little
Sergeant Joe knew Of the flowing bowl.
The march of thirty young ladies
dressed up in the popular yellow kid
costume introducing several beautiful
living pictures, completed the local
part of the performance.
The third part a rip-roaring farce
entitled "The Major" was properly
named. 1t was a farce, but the rip
roaring part was probably left in
Racine, from which place the perform
ers hailed
In all, both socially and financially
the minstrel show was a great success.