The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-09
IN A SAWDUST RING.
WITH CONCERT AND VAUDEVILLE
THE Y. VI. II. A. GAVE CLEN-
ERR SHOW.


and Things. Political. social and
Otherwfse-CIever Singing, Dane
ing and Acting n Part of show
The Work of Miss Hexter and Mr.
Black Exceptionally GOOd-LOcni
Hits and Songs Written by Miss
Ruth Kayton-PerfOrmanc Given
Under Direction of Mrs. Epstein
and Miss Julia Epstein.
with a circus, concert and vaude-
willie the Y. NJ. H. A. entertained its
friends for several hours in the The
a.cr last night, and entertained very
large number of them, too, for the
house was nearly filled and at least
half of the balcony as we'll. The pro-
sramme was one of infinite variety and
-.englh, but it was a good one and
with the exception Of its length vas
above criticism.
l. began with the circus, given in a
real saw-dust ring. with Mr.. Armand
L. Chapeau as ring master and general
master of ceremonies. a position that,
with the aid of a silk hat, top boots
and the traditional whip, he filled with
dignity and credit He was ably as
sisted in keeping the fun going by the
following corps of clowns: Dietl
Clark, Harry Garfunkel, Edgar Leh-
man, Harry Dreese, Isl Prayer. Arthur
Robinson, Lawrence Semon and Harry
CpPenhe.mer.
1t was in this part of the show that
most of the raps at local people and
things took place. Raps is the only
word that will describe these jokes
for they were characterized more by
their bluntness and force than by
their finesse. Nobody was spared. Mr.
Chapeau started out with the usual
forid spiel" of the ringmaster, telling
of the extent and magnitude of the
show and declaring that to get it to-
gether the six quarters of the globe
had been searched. and that in so do
ing money had flowed as freely as
promises before an election.
He announced as the first attraction,
John NJ. Egan, the world famous
bridge jumper" This attraction failed
to appear. however. and his absence
was explained by a clown, who said
that his feelings had been hurt be-
cause he wasn't given the Central
place in the show. The ringmaster re-
GREETED his ,non-appearance, but an
nounced thaS he had another celebrity
in the person of James Anthony, who,
with his feet had performed the won
derfeat feat of climbing even higher
than his father had climbed in his
widest flights of fancy Anthony, too,
failed to materialiZe, and his absence
was accounted for on the ground that
he was suffering with indigestion
brought on by taking dinner at Adler's
Charity Bazaar. These gentlemen were
only a few of many who were handled
in the same manner.
While this part of the performance
was going on the clowns were having
some fun all to themselves caricatur-
ing the work of a we'll known mani
curist who was represented as work.
ing with chisel and file neither of
which was under a foot and a half
long. The animals of the show were
four monkeys borrowed for the oc
casion from Central Fire Station. One
of these was labeled THE Blind Tiger,
Herman Myers" and the others THE
Bull Street Lyons Later Herman
Myers" was transformed into Sam
Jones, who eats em alive"
A special feature of the circus, and
one that met with the heartiest ap-
and pyramid work of j. II. Elton, Jr.,
Louis Hoynes and James Silva. An
other special stunt was that of Mr..
Davis G. White as Signor Garboro.
the man with the iron jaw, who lifted
a (fake) 500-pound weight. Mr.. Davis
was introduced as the strongest man
in the country, man more powerful
than D. B. Testers pull with City
Council.
Who's the Croker of Savannah"
came a question al this stage of the
proceedings, and equally quick came
the answer. ABE Garfunkel" II
want to make speech" announced
one of the clowns. well, if it's any
good, make it before the Savannah
Lecture Course" suggested the ring
master. Nav" came back the dis
gusted answer, II want this speech to
be heard" well, then, make it be-
fore the Union Club" was the next
suggestion, but this was objected to
was too close mouthed. Close mouth
ed" was the incredulous retort, why,
there couldn't be a more Frank
crowd"
Before the circus closed, as a special
feature scrap between Louie Gar
funkel" and IS. L. Lazaron," took place
between two clowns. Another feature
was the debut OF Mr.. DletZ Clark in
very much flounced be-frilled and alb
breviated skirts, as an equestrienne
He rode barebacked, a little red
donkey.
The second part of the programme,
the concert feature. was of a uniform
excellence, and many of the partici-
pants had to respond to encores. In
the vaudeville was given some of the
most artistic work of the entire en-
tertainment, especially good being the
sketch Two Persons given by Miss
Beulah Hexter and Mr.. j. NJ. Black
The acting in this was probably as
fine as has been seen in any amateur
show given on the Savannah stage,
and the audience was not slow to APP
preciate it. and to show it's apprecia-
ton by hearty applause.
The double sextette Tell Me Gentle
Maiden" from "Florodoro." was twice
recalled and given many rounds of ap-
plause.
Very clever too, was the musical
mokes act of Messrs. Guiffrida and
HeXter the dancing of Miss Marguer-
ita Suits, and the work of Miss Julia
Epstein and Mr.. Willie Adams in the
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