The Saint Paul globe., 1903-02-22
.ELKS' SHOW is TO BE
BETTER THIS YEAR
THAN EVER
Big Programme Of Music and
Humor Arranged for Pop
ular Local Production to
Which st. Paul's Best Tai
ent Will COntribute-Ma
Local Features.

The completed programme of the
Elks show at the Metropolitan, March
8, 6 and Z, makes plain that it will be
an entertainment Of minstrel, Vaude-
Vile and burleSque character. 1t VIII
be decidedly more comprehensive in
scope than anything heretofore at
tempted and will show a greater var
iety of acts.
The performers have been busy re-
hearslng for some weeks past, and
will have general rehearsals for nearly
every night the coming week to round
the whole entertainment into shape.
The heavy work Of minstrelsy falls
on the end men, of course, and they
will be Frank Tenney, James Silk,
Louis Nash, Robert Seng and John
Davern, bones; Al C. Flournoy. Ar
thur White, Harry Hardick, George
Clipper and John Rodger, tambos.
Leavitt Corning will be interlocutor
The company will include 100 other
people
The first part, being musical, will
include the lyric efforts, such as the
Lily of the Nile" and when Lady
Leads the Band" sung by the whole
company. c. E. Jette will do some
clever baton manipulating in the Sec
Ond number.
Other warblers will be Percy
Churchill, who will reel off Mandy"
Charles Laird, Under the Shade of
the Palms," Miss Mabel Polhamus,
''Lenore;" Master Lyle LIE Pine, when
Kate and I Are Coming Through the
Rye" There viii also be a sl1it, enti-
tiled the 1.-TWO Senator's" in which
Arthur White and James Silk will do
half the work, and Frank Tenney and
Al @. FlOurnoy the remainder. Miss
Leila A. Stanton Will render a violin
solo. and Walker Ellis whistling spe-
ciality. Al G. FlOurnoy will cough up
"a Few Gargles," and Frank Tenney
will sing Of "The Gambling Man."
'Daffy Down Dilly," by Miss Hazel
Runge and the entire company, will
finish the first part.
Will Caricature ST. Paul.
After a brief intermission, to allow
the audience a chance to recover its
bated breath, the show will go on with
unabated vigor. The second half con-
sists mainly of big acts" such as
Some Cute Kids in Nursery Rhyme"
which will be first, as given by eight
little children.
"A Bunch of African Sun burst" is
played in two acts, the first by Al G.
FlOurnOy. The second will be done by
Miss Hazel Runge and company Of
sixteen young women.
The song and dance, Nancy Brown"
will be enacted by four ''rubes" and
Quartette of ''firts."
The Elks will not spare the officials
of state and city in their medley, "The
City Of st. Paul." but will introduce
Gov. Van SAINT, Mayor Smith, William
P. CARING, DR.. Ohage, II. P. Hall and
the biggest policeman on the force
Sergeant Andy Call"
Something startling is promised in
the "Grecian Dance" in which Miss
Lillian Malcolm will lead, assisted by
homemade ballet, composed of the
following peaches" John Rodger,
n11 r. II
Tussey II. Arnstadt, Ed Danz, A. A.
Perkins, Joe Horeish, James Burlock
and F. L. Hoffman
Even Summit avenue will be freely,
and perhaps recklessly, treated in
some caricatures that will follow, the
principal districts Of the town and the
avenue being represented by Louis
Nash and Martha Grobe. Other sec
tons subject to take-offs will be Rice
street, DaytOn's bluff. Merriam Park,
the West side, Swede hollow anA
Wildwood.
The last big act will be a double
header. Some eighteen young women,
with Miss Hazel Runge as captain,
will appear as THE Elks' Guards" and
be followed by Company D, Of this
city. under command of Capt. Charles
f. French.
There will be a long string of spe-.
cialttes in the second part. Mrs Louis
Nash will repeat her original dancing
and singing act that has proved so
popular in the past
Charlotte Parry Smith has been en-
gagged to give a refined speciality.
Some polite vaudeville is booked for
Ida Levison and Charles Marks.
Charles Laird, with the company.
Will sing Down Where the Budweizer
Flows"
And there will be still "a little more"
which the Elks have not seen fit to
disclose in adVapce