Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-07-11
LOCAL TALENT
MINSTREL SHOW
Little Misses Made
Big Hit Last
Night.
NEW SONGS AND GOOD JOKES
Girls Well Trained in Black
Face Stunts---Audience
Too Small.


Twenty.one clever young maidens,
from the kindergarten age into the
teens, holding the boards at the Lo
retto Academy Hall last evening, en-
tertaining an audience of two hundred
people and holding their attention as
even Clevelands famous Minstrels In
their prime could not have done, such
was the performance Of Santa Fe's
Juvenile Minstrels, to be repeated this
evening to much larger audience, 1t
is to be hoped.
"Why is the New Mexican office
like heaven?"
Because there is no Knight there,
"Why is Tom Catron like. Santa
Fe train?"
Because he is a double header
"Who is Tom Catron?"
"He is Bob Gortner's office boy"
Does that pay him enough to sup.
port his family?"
mo, but he works for the Demo.
Gratis on the side; that helps some"
Does Tom Catron own the city
council?"
Eyes, he has it and the board of
education in barrel and sits on the
bung-hole."
"Who comes out first upon his com.
mand?"
Charles easily (Easley)"
Thus quips and conundrums we're
banded to and fro by the endmen,
or rather end girls, Ramona Baca, EN-.
ella McFie, Susan Weltmer, Hope Wi
ley, Anna Newhall, May Closson, An
ma Whitman and Genevieve Morrison,
with Dorothy Griffin as Topsy and Ed.
ward Ehle as interlocutor or Aunt
Martha.
Audience Was Appreciative.
In an audience where everyone
knows everyone else and much
of their affairs, the personal jokes, of
course, created unbounded fun and
laughter. But after all, the local
hits, which tonight are to be entirely
new, were but a side issue. Someone
with an immense amount of public
spirit and enthusiasm had trained the
young folks to perfection in songs, old
and new, in figure dancing and tab
eaus. The opening chorus Down on
the Farm" was sung by the pickan.
innies as they came marching upon
the stage before the curtain rose. AS
this was lifted, it revealed the twenty.
one burnt cork artists sitting in a
semi-circle with their backs turned to
the audience and the interlocutor in
the center, all humming the dreamy
melody. Tt took the audience by
storm.
The first solo part was by Claribel
Fischer, song, "You Mustn't Pick
Plums From Ny Plum Tree" the mo.
tions accompanying being very realis-
tic and the young vocalist acquitting
herself very creditably
Frances Hinojos, who is the posses.
sor of voice of wonderful power and
clearness for one SO young, sang I'm
Just Crazy About YOU" and had to
answer an encore. Moving Days"
was laughable chorus and motion
song by Carrie Palmer, #. Berry,
Claribel Fischer, E. Riddle, P. Car.
Isle and Anna Newhall. 1t told
graphically the difference between
paying rent and moving.
Anita Baca sang sweetly "Sympa-
thy" and was encored.
"Mr. DooIey BurIesque Song.
"The Cotton Pickers" in chorus
built upon the classic lines Of Mr..
Dooley, evidently surprised the inter.
locutor, for they sang a paean to his
clothing store that ought to prove al
most as good an advertisement as his
ad in the New Mexican.
Dorothy Griffin, with a topsy-turvy
rag doll in one hand, sang lullaby
to which the chorus was hummed by
the others. It was an inimitable rem.
dition that greatly pleased the audi
ence.
Hope Wiley and Anita Baca sang
In My Oldsmobile" and did very well
They were>followed by Frances Hino
jos with typical song of the knock
er, especially composed for the occa
sion. under the euphonious title oil
Gee, But This Is a Lonesome Town
It was probably the best solo and cho
rus Of the evening.
"Oh, say, Wouldn't It Be a Dream
by Ramona Baca was the finale of the
first part Of the program. It was al
most entirely local in its applications
speaking Of the day when Santa Fe
will have cement sidewalks on every
street, when the street sprinkler will
make the rounds at least once week
when the Elks' opera house will be
completed and Of other dreams Of
civic greatness, which Santa Fe has
been dreaming Of late. Miss Baca Is
an actress, no doubt about It, and the
glamor Of the footlights Is evidently