The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-29
St. Johns Temperance and Liter
airy Guild viii Give a First Class
Minstrel Show on Monday
Evening
TO RAISE FUNDS
FOR A LIBRARY
Some Interesting Facts About the
History of the Guild and Its
Work. What Some of the Mem
berS Have Done in This Line in
the Past

the Past
st. Johns Temperance and Literary
Guild is to make it's bow before the
people of Worcester in a new line of
entertainment at Mechanics Hall to-
morrow night when the popular society
will give a minstrel show to raise
funds for a library. Ever since 1t was
organized the Guild has been prom
inently before the public as an enter
tanning organization and some Of the
most successful coffee parties. debates,
socials, etc, held in the city have been
under the auspices of the Guild. A
minstrel show is something new for
the Guild but it has in its membership
young men who have won local fame
as burnt cork artists and they have
turned to with a will and are now pre-
pared, after several months of rehear-
sal, to give their friends a capital
show.
The committee Of arrangements con-
sisting of Henry J. Cummings, John
T. Flanagan, Maurice F. Reidy, J. j.
Halloran, John A. Larkin, w. H.
L
E Flanagan, Timothy ]. Cronin, and
| Edward J. Croak, has fixed up the de-
tails for the evenings fun, and a
! startling array of talent is promised
| by them.
In selecting the directors for the
show. the committee has been fOrtu-
nate in securing the services of j.
| Fred Donnelly and William J. Heffern,
! the former as musical director and the
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/ is also fortunate in that nearly all the
members who are to take a prominent
| part in the show have experience in
| their respective lines and most of hem
are singers in the st. Johns Church
| choir.
John T. Flanagan, who is to be in
| terlOcutor. has had considerable ex-
! perience before the footlights. being a
ImerESer for five years of the St Johns
Dramatic Club, organized by Rev. NJ.
| T. OBrien. He has a good speaking
| voice, being one Of the Guilds fore
most debaters, and the society in Sc
! lecting him to swing the first part
realizes that it is in capable hands.
! The end men were chosen especially
! for their fitness for their parts and all
are exceptionally good vocalists for
such work. OF the bones, Jimmie
Larkin the quarterback of the Holy
Cross football team. has had experience
, on the end with the High School min
strels and also with the Holy Cross
minstrels, and his friends remember
with much pleasure his successful eff
| forts as an entertainer in his comedy
work
Johnnie" Moore has also been a
| leading light among the comedians of
| the High School MINISTRIES, and his
work al rehearsals with the Guild
] proves that he will sustain the reputa-
ton made with the High School.
: Mat Mccain of the tambo end
! has established a reputation as an en-
/ tertainer having assisted the st.
| Paurs Lyceum and Holy Cross min
! strels in all their performances.
| Joseph f. Flanagan, while not hav-
] ing appeared before a Worcester audi
ence as entertainer. has taken "a prom
inent part in all the entertainments
I held by the University Of Penn. where
| he is leading member Of the Mask
and Wig" Club connected with the
| university and also a member Of the
! L. P. Glee Club. Both Mr. Kinds and
John A. Larkin have taken part in all
! the Guild entertainments and have
| proved themselves capable artists in
/ their respective lines. All the songs Of
! these men are up to date and the
Jokes are guaranteed to drive the blues
out of a bag Of indigo.
OF the ballad singers nothing need be
said in praise as they have all been
heard throughout the city at different
I occasions and have always had their
! services sought by many of the organ
/ izations seeking refined talent. Each
man has chosen a ballad appropriate
I to his voice. and has carefully trained,
I under the personal supervision Of J.
( Frederick Donnelly. They will be as
1 sisted in the chorus parts by the So
| ciety's double quartet Mr.. DOnnellv
promises a first class program Of
musical numbers.
The society has procured the services
| Of the wonderful boy soprano. Master
! George d. Butler. who will surely make
q hit
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