Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-17
WARRINGTON.

MANNINGTON, w Va, March IA
Never in the history of our town was
there such an outpouTing of people,
Electrically inclined, as IN Saturday
night, March 8, to greet the minstrel
performance put on under the auspices
of the Elk Lodge No. 3SS, by the Car
| roll Club Minstrels, of Wheeling, un-
der the management OF Ignatius Bren-
nan, assisted by Jno. ]. p. O'Brien and
D. Walter Cochran. They lined up as
follows: Interlocutor, Jno. J. Coniff,
who surely looked at home in the
chair, as he did later on in the toast
masters chair during the sumptuous
banquet following. Tambos, Ignatius
Brennan, Gus. G. Weitzell and D. W.
Cochran. Bones, Vincent OwenNW. C.
Handlan, Jr., and ]. J P. O'Brien, with
Robert Farley, w. B. Gundling, Geo.
Hervey, Albert Flading, Jno. Brady,
Geo. Matthews, DR.. Jno. ]. O'Kane, VIM.
Hess and Fred Danvers as middlemen.
Seats went on sale at Huey's drug
store at s a. m. Thursday preceding,
and by ten o'clock a. m. Friday the
board was cleared 1t was conceded to
be the most fashionable audience ever
assembled in our Opera House. Dia-
monds and silk dresses were as con-
s~picuous in the galleries as in the COW
eted dress circles. The standing room
only sign was displayed at the open
ing. Camp chairs filed every availa-
BILE space, and hundreds failed to gain
admission at all. The entertainment
commenced promptly as did the enthu-
siasm in the assemblage, and from the
going up of the curtain on the opening
chorus, until it was rung down on the
a~fterpiece, it was one continual round
of applause.
The Jokes were all new and remarka-
bly, local: every prominent member OF
the Order being held up in the ridicu-
lous, and told by six Of the most clever
end men that ever graced the Man
nington stage. not barring any The
songs: O'Brien's Every Niger Has a
Lady But Me- Brennan's Ma Money
Never Gives Out" lin burlesque), and
Gundling's Every Race Has a Flag
But the Coon were cheered to the
echo and vigorously encored- F7ad-
ing's rendition Of Jean" Brady's
ASLEEP in the Deep" Farley's When
the Harvest Days are Over, Jessie Dear"
and Danvers' Naples were simply
fine, each number being encored. Part
two led off with "Monologue in Dark
Town by Ed. De Howard, with his
buck and wing dancing and his Goo
Goo Eyes" and to say he pleased would
be putting it mildly. Geo. Heryey fol-
| lowed in his old darkey make up. and
| assisted by a chorus from the wings,
rendered THE Old Home Amt What
1t Used To Be" His effort could not
have been improved upon. The work
| or Prof. Charles Schambra was surely
| that of a professional. VIM. Hess IN
| his "Personi1cations of Germany" fair
ly convulsed the house and from his
| expressions, movements and make up.
he surely loked the part of Fritz" Just
over.
The afterpiece was a scientific box
ing contest, consisting Of four five min
ute rounds, between julius and Louis
Duga, five year old twins of Bellaire,
Ohio. and had been the only number Of
the performance, the audience would
have felt that they got their moneys
worth" Their uncle. Abe Stahl. acted
as referee, and little Willie Smith
and Johnnie Hopkins, three hundred
Founders. performed In the role of sec
onds. Each time the principals were
given a drink the seconds took two.
An elegant luncheon followed at the
Bartlett Hotel" under the supervision
of Bro. F ". Bartlett, whose record as
. caterer is second to mono. serving an
elaborate banquet to the minstrel boys.
the Orchestra and the Warrington Elks
and their friends.
The social session followed this in the
Efk's club and lodge rooms, consisting
of the home Elks and Ministries. Song
singing. speech making. clog dancing,
etc, were indulged in. The Opera
Hoese erchestra. Of Wheeling, furnish
81 The munc for the evening. Thfs sss-
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