Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-12
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PROFITS LARGELY
Las Vegas Enjoyed to the Limit
the Efforts of Her Shady En-
tertainers. A Complete
Success.

Once more the home talent Of Las
Vegas has demonstrated its ability
to give an entertainment which sur
passes in point of real character and
merit the great majority Of the profess
sional shows which come this way.
The Lady Minstrels held sway at
the opera house last night before a
crowded and enthusiastic house.
From $3.50 until IL the audience was
delightfully."- entertained with all the
clever devises known to the min
strers art and there was not slow
minute from beginning to end.
The costuming and general effect
was a most noteworthy feature.
When the curtain rose, the sight pre-
sented was startling and unique in
the extreme. Beautiful it was not,
for who would say that when the fair
faces of the maids and matrons of
Las Vegas were blackened beyond
recognition the result was beautiful?
But then it was not supposed to be
and it was effective which was more
to the point.
The stage was arranged in three
tiers of seats and on the upper tiers
sat the chorus of thirty-two swell col.
ored ladies dressed in perfect con,
formity They had adopted the con
ventional full dress of the sterner sex
above their short black skirts. Each
wore white gloves, a silk hat and a
large red rose. The interlocutor was
distinguished in costume by broad
lapels of snowy white.
The bones wore elaborate trim
mings of red ant tambos were re
splendent with yellow.
The first half of the program
which opened with a we'll rendered
company song, consisted of the con
ventional minstrel Entertainment o
jokes and songs. 1t moved with {
snap and spirit which relieved it o.
the tediousness sometimes character
istic of its sort. There was a gener
GUS sprinkling Of local jokes which
made life miserable for the oil
bachelors and the bald-headed men
Politics, floods and the street railwa,
all were given due attention; Oh,
jokes we're apt and took excellently
In the ensemble song effects th
work of the tambos and particular,
of the bones should have specia
mention. The selections of these 81
characters had been fortunatel
made for they did their stunts adm
rably. Their identity must be re
vealed. The bones were Miss Hume
Miss Abramowsky and Miss Cunning
ham; the tambos, Miss Jessie Ilfeld
Mrs. S. c. Brown and Miss johnson
Miss Blanche Rothgeb as interlocuto
presided over the whole with prope
dignity and made distinct hit in he
song, "The Good Old Autumn Time,
with original words, which was sun
by request. Other songs which mad
the greatest hits we're: Kiss You
self Goodbye. by "Dinah Dewdrop
Miss Jessie Ilfeld, and Don't Max
Them Scandlous Eyes at Me-"
"Tina Hamfat, Miss Magaret Film
Other songs were rendered by Mis-
johnson as Sukey Goldenrod Mis-
Abramowsky as GlOriana Sunbeam
Miss Dietrich as Ciementina Bigfot
from Chicago: Mrs. s. c. Brown
Miss Arabela Snowfall; Miss Ma
guerite Cunningham as Rosy Cowsli
and Miss May Ross as Lovely Tild
Nit. All we're we'll done and wei
received with marked appreciation b
the audience. An especially notewo
thy effort was the Original Oration G
The Evils of Bachelordom and Ho
we Done Gwine Remedy Them" }
"Topsy Turvy,"-Miss Hume.
The erring ones in local socie'
were handled without gloves an
their cases were made to appear d
plorable in the extreme by the irr
sistable eloquence OF Miss Hume.
Ralph Quinley made a most Gu
ming little page throughout the eve