The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-20
THE METROpOLITANS
Excellent Entertainment by
Local Minstrels.

i The first performance OF the Metro
politan Minstrels was seen at the Ma
sonic opera houselT Tuesday evening,
and the young gentlemen who par
ticipated in the program are to be
congratulated uponIthe general ex-
1 cellence of their efforts. ALI in all
the Minstrel was one OF the best home
talent entertainments that has been
presen5ed by any organization in the
city. The criticism mightlbe made
that some of the features might be
cut down to advantage. The program
was little too lengthy The curtain
went up on the largest circle that has
ever sang from the stage in Minstrel
chorus and the overture was good
one. The end entertainers lbesides
the interlocutor as follows:l
BONES.
Harry Hagan, ,sAn Rob Walton,
Elmer Mendenhall.
TAMBos.
Guy Duncan, Ed Walton,9
Harry Chapman.l
The jokes were sup-to.dat and
spicy and pleased. The musical num-
bers were new and well rendered. In
Harry Hagan's solo a novelty was in
troduced in the appearance of the
Zulu babe he was singing about per-
sonified by Tom Stanton. The pro-
gram of the musical part introduced
tine folio wing:
"My Little Zulu Babel. Harry Hagan
The Stein Song. ......... Harry Coffin
"If Time was Money I'D Be a Mil
lionaire". .......... Harry Chapman
81 Love You, Dear, andlOnly Youn
.................Wa Walter Davis
"Close Dat Eye" Ed Walton
L" 9TiI DEATH. -. Claude Lafferty
I"Since All My Money HasiGive Out''
.............. Elmer Mendenhall
"For Love Alone". ;. Evan Morgan
Evan Morgan, though laboring un-
der the disadvantage OF a severe cold,
appeared to advantage inlhis solo.
The Olio of the Minstrel Twas par
ticularly pleasing land contained a
number of surprises for the audience.
Elmer Mendenhall surpassed himself
and Guy Duncan provedi himself an
artist along several lines. The silence
and fun act by Messrs. Arthur: Hugg
and Ernest Bennett 10 Sworthy of
special mention. The young gentle
men performed some very difficult
acrob attic feats in and out barrels and
over and under chairs, tables, etc.
Their work called forth 1theiheartiest
applause from the audience. A special
musical nu nber was furnished by q
trio of colored fello VS. wholwere Sc
| cured for the occasion. The Penn
Quartette won new laurelsI for their
excellent work.
The finale was bit of ridiculous
skit done in good way. Alt was CALI
ed "The Doings of Tramp" and in
troduced the following as the cast OF
characters:
sTEELYN BORROW-The Tramp. /.
| ELMER MENDENHALL
Cinders-Bell Boy. Emil Schmitt
Tim Casey-Tourist. Tom Fitzgerald
Hans Schlitz -Casey's Friend. ......
| .................... Harry Chapman
Punk Wing-Baggage Smasher .....
| .................. Harry Hagan
Stormington Barnes-Actor ..........
-. ............ Guy Duncan
Otto Killet-A Swell. >. Ed Walton
Jay Bird-From Vermont. ..........
....-.............. Robert Walton
John Coffin-Consumptive.. .......
| ...............Ad Addison BeDillon
The Ice Man.. :. Ross Myers
Eddie Tor-Reporter. Evan Morgan
Wun Luug-Cook.... Tom Stanton
Willie Green. .Vernie Watts
Three Old Sports
.................. Moody Roberts
| Charles ("Tommy') Mendenhall
............... .Omer Hanna
Mr.. Brown Prop. Claude Lafferty
The entertainment will be repeated
this evening and the greater part of
the program will be an entirely new
bill. The overture at the opening
will be changed and some of the solos.
All of the jokes will be new and much
of the olio work will be altered max
ing almost an entire change of bill.
The SO at sale for this evening is al
most equal to that of last evening and
the proceeds of the entertainment
will net the management consider
able sum of ofmoney for the relief fund
of the widows and orphans of the
Lost Greek mining disaster that oc-
CURED last January.
The Minstrel was organized for the
purpose of aiding this fund and the
liberal patronage that the: entertain
ment has received will enable the
young men to turn quite neat little
sum into the relief fund.
| END OF REBELLION.
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who succeeded Lucban as command