Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-04
BANKERS IN
BURNT CORK
MONEY COUNTERS MAKE MT IN
VAUDEVILLE
DO CLEVER DANCES AND slNe
MERRY SONGS
Amateur Actors Prove They Can pe
Other Thlnss>as Well ss
Figure SerdlS
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II your bank teller has black peeeileA
lines beneath his eyelashes this mesatRs
that make him look like a seahsesse, aea't
grow unduly suspicious II he yawes
bit and looks far away don't grow im-
patient. He will cone out al right,
Those symptoms will sin,pty Indicate
that he spent three glorious hours hegoSe
the footlightS last night at the Bank
Clerks minStrclS.
Ii was glorious for the performers and
for the audienee-and spectators,
Here is where ono gets into deep water
OR skates on thin ice.
How 70 describe that show and Dc iwS-
tice to each turne There were times
during the performance. however, when
certain groups of the audience went into
ecstacies when some one of their par
ticular set got his. There were qutps and
jokes that had strictly local appliea-
tion and some OF them had little hidden
points that had more meaning fer eer-
tain groups than for the whole audience.
But they were an crisp and fresh and
delightful.
Watts Gets Its
Watts. What performance of this sort
would be complete without u gentle dig at
that delightful suhurbg IL was easy,
Bones lost his Job in the information
bureau at the p, f. building. Howf
Well, a feller came in and asked how was
the best way to SO to Watts. Bones
buohled over with the advice that the
best way to so TO Watts was 10 so there
deadi That brought them, and once last
nights audience started to laugh II kept
the blackface men encouraged TO the end
of the stunt.
Who were the funmakers? Take your
bank directory. They were all there.
And the audience-spectators? Take your
blue book and the city directory. The
house was packed and not deadhead
there.
]. B. Rogers started something when he
sang, IT Am Willing to Wait" and he
sang it so well and the chorus had proved
so satisfactory his hearers demanded
more and more of It, Great!
George e. Bittinger sang ''Fancies" in
a way that proved that If the banking
business becomes irksome to him the
vaudeville stage awaits with a fortune
for him.
w. D. Woolwine in LET It Alone
proved that he was born and raised
in the south, probably in Ole
Kaintuck His dialect was the nearest
the real Afro-American of anything done
during the evening. 1
w. s. Bartlett tore off ma Dusky
Rose" in way that proved a love ballad
in any color was acceptable by such q I
singer.
William Mead Makes Hit
william Mead drew several encores
with Anybody but YOU The chorus
got in strong on this bit and Mr.. Mead |
was forced to respond to several calls.
J. F. Sartori sang '"Wont You Waltz
Home, Sweet Home. with Me for Old |
Time Sake?" and made a big hit with |
all his hearers.
When General Robert Wankowski |
started "Brainstorms" things warmed up
some, and he was forced to wind it up |
with the most fearful and wonderful
dance steps that will probably ever be |
seen on the Auditorium stage.
Stoddard Jess was easily the pet of
the evening. His Bill Simmons, who |
couldn't keep still when the band began |
to play, proved one of the delightful |
things of the program.
Marco Hellman's Ida was unques-
the best song of the night. If
Lew Dockstader ever gets his eye and |
ear on that bit the chances are strong |
Los Angeles banking circles will lose a
valued member They kept him att 1t |
until he lost his breath. Hellman is a
second edition of AL Field of old-time |
burnt cork fame. With no more training |
than experience enough to keep him from |
being gun-shy he would make a hit in |
any minstrel company in the world.
Ine MISSISSIPPI Bubbles part Oh Lne |
show was some fair levee songs and some |
excellent buck-and-wing dancing by Bart |
and Sheridan Wheeler.
Mr.. Wallace and his trained elephant |
were excellent His juggling was good, |
but his dance and acrobatic stunts were
the most finished turn of the show.
o. H. King started monologue, ran
it through song and wound it UP with
whistling solo that was most pleasing.
Whitney's Sketch Screamer
Race Whitney's sketch entitled "The
First Natural Bank of Ethiopia was a
scream from start to finish. 1t bristled
with sharp hits. The scene was a bank
and the action was a run on the institu-
tion The run was started by a dis
gruntled bank clerk and the action came
in when the depositors stampeded.
Kammermeyer's orchestra helped the
boys over many rough spots and the
members of that organization will proba-
bly, not soon forget their efforts last
night. They deserve great praise.
]. M. Elliott acted as interlocutor and