Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-18
TALMA CLUB MINISTRIES
Local Blaekface Artists to Appear at Poi's in ...-- February.

Elaborate preparations are being made for the fourth annual minstrel show of the Talma club, which will be held at Polls theater on Monday and Tuesday evenings, February 19 and 20 All those who have helped make the show a success in the past will be on hand this year and the cast will also include several who have not pre- viously appeared in local theatricals.
 The biggest chorus that the club has ever had will be used, aggregating six ty voices, of which twenty will be female, score of the members of the Daughters of Isabella having volun- teered their services. The show will consist of two parts, the first to be a straight minstrel show, with every body in blackface. and the second part to consist of an olio, with the usual vaudeville sketches. Popular songs with local application and jokes about the politicians will make up the great CT part of the minstrel performance. Heretofore the club has had to roast the republican politicians, who were in power when the previous shows were given, but this year their demo cratic brethren will come in for the lions share of the knocks.
 The olio sketches will have repre- sented well known local men, whose faults and foibles will be ridiculed to the limit. A feature of this part of the entertainment will be travesty on the hero worship of the young wo- men who so admired the late summer stock company actors at the Jacques. There will be sextet song. resem- bling the "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden .'' from 'Floradora," in which well known young men and women will take part. This will be handsomely staged and the costumes will be the prettiest ever seen in a local produc- ton. Another feature will be a sketch in which the audience will have an opportunity to see what funny things happen behind the scenes and fin which they will witness the doings of char. acters with whom they have hitherto had acquaintance only over the foot lights and in front of the curtain. This sketch is being prepared by a wei known local literary man and is ex- pected to prove one of the hits of the show.
 The management has decided to set one night apart for the members of the city government. The club has not confined itself to its own member ship in selecting talent. but has en- gagged a number of other we'll known young men. The costumes are being prepared especially for the show by a leading Boston costumer. and plans for the scenery have already been drawn. The scenery will he construct ei at once. Tickets in the hands of the members have already found 2 lively sale and those secured in ad vance will have the usual advantage over those purchased at the last min ute. The chorus contains singers from almost every Catholic church choir In the city. Besides the last music the chorus will render selections from sev- eraI old operas. including 'sThe Chimes of NormansiIe.- The Bohemian Girr and William Tell"
 The show will he under the manage ment of Thomas N. Freney. who has engineered the previous succe<ses os the club. !. Albert Browne. who has acted as musical director at the othes performances. will oficiste in a similar capacity this year.
 There will he a rehearsal Of the chorus and principals tonight st SsS) o'clock in room 3n Iones-uorean buiId- ing. Another rehearsal wiII IAe he'd oa sunday afternoon st 3e3o oieBock.