Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-03

ny Hackett then took his turn at sing ing and his song i've Been Dreaming of You Baby" was as pretty as any that had been sung or was sung dur ing the night. He made hit and re- sponded to an encore. Charley Miller came on again and this time he gave two corking good end songs. The first was My Automobile GirP' and the second My Money Never Gives Out" Frank H. Bradbury and A. J. Cooney closed the end songs. Frank sang s'Mah Butterfly" and as he started the first chorus in foated Andy Cooney dressed as colored belle, wings and all and the number was well done. A pretty cake walk by the two ended a very pleasing number.
 The ballad singers were all good. Frank x. Bergin sang Dreamed My Mother Was Queen" and it was sung in good voice. James Egan sang a very pretty ballad entitled "An Old Fashioned Valentine," and sang it well. Tom Owens of Bristol, the popu- lar bah player of that section sang q bass solo entitled .The Sentinel Asleep" John B. Moran in his sweet tenor voice sang ''When We Were Sweet Sixteen" which merited all the applause it received.
 In the first part James c. Butler of Hartford appeared in character imita- tions. 1t was n choice feature Of the evenings entertainment and was heartily encored. Mir Butler is de lightful entertainer and possesses a versatility that should entitle him to a place in the professional ranks.
 The grand wind up of the first part was the singing of Should Auld Ac- quaintances Be Forgot by all the members of the lodge and the visiting brothers
 In the olio came first Harry Durant and Theresa McNally. It is not too much f1attery to say that thisSwas one of the real hits of the evening. Harry Durant surprised even his most inti- mate friends by his work One of the greatest laugh producers of the night was scene that has been written up so often in the daily press within the past few weeks. Harry does little monologle act and then retires from the stage. Suddenly n drop ascends and as the audience discovered what lt " ttS thCy JuSS SIOulGd III Rlee. It was supposed to represent the Porter woods where the much abused copper was found and stolen Jim Lunny Ill very flesh and blood is discovered LID a tree with an umbrella to shield him from the rain. At the foot of the tree are two policemen, one standing and the other sitting on mound and both sound asleep. Lunny also has dozed off to sleep. In front of the tree are discovered several bars of copper Harry Durant enters drawing nine ty-nine cent wagon, takes in the scene and then acts. He first lights cigarette from the lighted cigar in the mouth of one of the policemen and proceeds to load the copper into the wagon. He discovers Lunny up the tree and steal ing revolver from the pocket of one of the policemen he fires shot at the tree but the officers never move. He walks off with his plunder while the policemen still slumber. It took like hot cakes with the audience.
 The sketch between Miss McNally and Durant was q corker. MT Du- rants limitations of John Gilmour, Jean Ingraham, NJ. J. Brzezinski, Charley Miller and Bob McGrath were excel lent.
 Russell and Buckley in musical act ended very capital performance. The electric letters B. F. O. D. were the work of Electrician Brady and the music was furnished by the Ameri- can band orchestra. The stage hands under the direction of MT Robinson as- sisted in the general success of tho ap tertainment