The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

recent performance in Augusta 1.-THE
Whitman Sisters, with their company Of
original pickaninny cake walkers appeared
last night. The programme was well got
ten up and all of the numbers took. The
cake walking was the best ever seen here
and excepting the singing of the Whitman
Sisters, was the most enjoyable feature of
the performance. \ perceptjble murmur
was heard throughout the house as the two
eldest sisters made their appearance, for
instead of two women of Drowned skins
appeared two girls with compilations as
clear as the average white person. The
singing of these women was wonderful
The singing of Essie in contralto solos was
possibly the best. She has a voice o.
wonderful range and depth and instead of
impassioned defamation so often heard
by singers of this day, she treated the aud
fence 10 singing. She has a contralto
voice both liquid and clear fresh aud
brilliant. Those VINO were fortunate
enough TO attend witnessed performance
in which every feature of suggestiYeness
or rudeness was eliminated and saw one
that was very cleverly gotten up for such
an organization. The other members of
the troupe acted their parts well. the COM
edian, Dennis Mitchell, being particularly
good. The palm. however, must be given
to Dewey's Philippine Babies, as they are
called"
The emblem of the Pan-American Expo
sition, which will be held at Buffalo dur
ing the summer months of 1901, was the
work of Raphael Beck, a Loekport artist,
whose design was by all conceded to be
the most beautiful and comprehensive of
the four hundred and odd drawings which
were submitted. The design tells the
hopes and aspirations of the management
of the coming fair. for the underlying put
pose OF the Pan-American Exposition Is
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has been made by the people of the West
ern world during, the f1eeting century, ana
also to bring about closer trade and So
cial relations between all the peoples OF
the Americas
Nothing could more beautifully express
the idea of binding together of the peo-
ple of the North, Central and southern di-
vision OF the Western hemisphere
than Mr.. Beck's picture, which shows the
sweet-faced nymph of North America
smiling welcome as she looks down and
extends snowy arm across the LSthmus
of Yucatan in greeting TO her sweeth- faced
sister of the South, who, by the way seems
fully as eager to clasp the extended hand
| and to do ner share in the effort to bind
together the North and South in the holy
bonds on an all American sisterhood.
ITO hear the literary gentlemen of the
South bewai.ing the decline of negro min
StfelSy makes me very Urea, remarked
Lew Dockstader recently. Il have the
highest admiration for the writings OF
.5oei Chandler Harris and Thomas Nelson
| Page, but when they write about min
strelsy as they sometimes do they are I'M
fair to the burnt-eork men OF to-day.
IF minstrelsy has declined, what has
il declined from? From Dad Rice, who
| jumped Jim Crow and csricatured the
! Southern negro so badly that nobody could
! recognize him. Or has minstrelsy declined
from Dan Bryant, who used TO play Han
dy Andy in b.ack-face with an Irish dia-
! lect2
Some years ago ] read In Harper's
Monthly an essay by Laurence Hutton on
The History of Negro Minsfrelsy. He
! has made a study of the stage, and ought
to know about this line of theatrical bust.
ness, and yet the article was a mass OF
misstatements. Really, must protest
! against the injustice of these attacks or
modern negro minstresy.'
| old.
r. f. McClannin. a rugged ODD actor
who was seen twice IN Savannah as Col
| Sept in THE Prisoner Of Zenda, /" died the
other day at Hartford. he was GO years
/