Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-18
MINISTRIES DRAW
PACKED HOUSE
High School Students Put on a Good
Show to Send Track Team to
Compete In the
North

The Los Angeles high school min
strels attracted larger house at Simp-
son auditorium Saturday night than
any one event in the Philharmonic
course this season which was given in
the same place. The largest and most
enthusiastic high school crowd seen in
years turned out to help send the
| schools track team north by paying
1.-TWO bits" to see the minstrel show.
The affair originated in the brain of
Ray Petty one of the senior A boys,
and met with hearty welcome from
the other youths of the school AS
Petty saw the house filling up last
night till there were between three and
! five hundred people standing against
the walls, his omnipresent smile length
ened almost to a grin. Together with
Verne Rogers, Petty managed the en-
tire affair, and worked INCREASINGLY to
make it a success. He succeeded.
Don you stop to argify.
"Jes' let trouble pass you by" sang
the minstels, and the great crowd
obeyed them to the letter, and that
Notwithstanding the fact that the per-
formers slammed" faculty and stu
dents Unfortunately.
Knocks for Polytechnic
And Polytechnic got hers-although
a bunch of Poly rooters raised their
battle cry and created a little furor be-
fore the minstrels came on. Reubens,
sleepers, dead ones, were some OF the
nicer things said about the rival school;
and several of the coons had on their
Immaculate shirt fronts the scores of
games in which Los Angeles High had
put it all over Poly.
Chaucer SNOWFALL, the irrepressible
Petty. made a hit with his stories and
songs. particularly with parody on the
gem, LET 1t Alone" Milton jackson,
sometimes known as Golden Rule
Charles H. Mills, did very clever
skit with the harmonica. He initiated
Sousa, and also told a story of an ac-
quaintance, illustrating the tale with
selections on his musical instrument
Chamberlain as interlocutor performed
the difficult feat of keeping the col
ored brethren from mixing it. Rogers
and Mitchell, captain of the football
team, held down the other end, oppo-
site Petty and Mills.
But there was another part to the
program which met with no little ap-
plause. Before the minstrels began to
shine, musical program was rem
dered by high school talent. Some of
the best numbers of the program were
Miss Ethel Coleman's songs. She has
beautiful voice. of clear lyric quality,
and attains the high notes with the
utmost ease. During her second num-
Der a disturbance was created in the
! gallery, but was hushed by the ex-
pressions of disapproval from the
school. The first part of the program
was as follows:
Musical Program
Overture Gays orchestra
Address ............;"..:..H Howard Krueger
President students body
(a) Land of the Free &C. I. Rice).....
(b) Comic Glee.. Boys Glee club
(Mrs. G. B. Parsons, director
Buresque. ue............L. A. H. S. Gym club
CMr. o. w. Lousley, director,)
(a) May Morning (Denza). Ethel Coleman
(b) Rosalie DeKoven). ...... Ethel Coleman
Bugle Calls. Howard Brown
(First Call, Reveille, Assembly,
Retreat, Taps.)
(a) Mammys Lullaby (Jameson). ........
Cb) Mary Mary Girls Glee club
(Mrs. G. B. Parsons, director
The minstrels had charge of the Sec
ond part of the show.