Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-23
VARSITY GLEE CLUB CONCERT
Nebraska students Give Most Pleas
ing Entertainment at the
HOyd.

II was a representative college audience
that gathered Thursday at Boyd's the
alter TO hear the concert given by the Uni
versity OF Nebraska Glee and Mandolin
clubs-that is, It was an audience made
up largely OF alumni of colleges and uni
verslties. But II needed no college au-
dience to appreciate the performance pre-
sented by the forty odd young men from
the state university. 1t requires no be-
nevolent allowance for amateurism to say
1t was an extraordinarily good show. 1t
Is show Of variety, for to the usual
features OF concert and mlnstrelsy has
been added an original comic operetta that
Is extremely funny and we'll staged and
managed.
The house was fairly well filled. but
what the audience may have lacked in
size was more than made up in enthu-
siasm. From the first number by the glee
club Of thirty exceptionally we'll trained
voices to the final curtain fall, one, two
and sometimes more encores to every num-
Der we're demanded by the audience There
were nine numbers In the first or concert
part of the program, and 1t is hard to
| distinguish which may have been the ia
vorite for all were we'll received and
were Of high order They showed that
the glee club as musical organization is
better than ever before. The voices were
| In beautiful harmony and showed the ef-
feet Of careful training
The second part Of the program. the
/ comic operetta, kept the audience in one
/ continual guffaw. IL was home product
most OF the librettO being by +. c. John
| son and NJ. L. Kimmel, who took leading
| parts as Cudoma and Cecil colored comics,
| respectively. The scene is laid in New
Haven, Conn, and the time is next fall,
the day Of the great foot ball match be-
| tween Nebraska and Yale. Whatever Of
] plot there Is centers around Cecil and
/ Cudoma, who even alone would have made
the sketch amusing. But when three sex
! tettes Of girls tripped % upon the stage
in buresque of the chorus Of an opera, the
! ensemble was irresistible. First came the
Vassar girls in caps and gowns and curls.
! They were chewing gum. Then came the
| Tuskegee beauties in yellow dresses reach
ing their knees black belts and black ties
of vast dimensions. They were followed
! by the Nebraska girls in cream mortar
boards with crimson tassels cream
dresses and crimson stockings and CATERS.
To relieve the dazzling effect of this ar
ray Of femininity there was a sextette Of
New York dudes. Clarence Johnston as
| Cecilia, the Lemon" was a great sue
cess, and the other parts were all well
| taken.
! An affair Of this nature always Is handl-
! capped for two reasons-it is not suf-
! hciently advertised and its nature is not
! we'll enough known TO the general theater-
! going public to draw patronage from that
source. 1t is safe to say that II a per-
! Torrance like the one given last night
were placed before an average theater au-
| dienoe in Omaha It would please as well
as the average professional show.
| The entertainment was under the att
| spices Of the Omaha Panhellenic club and
! nearly 200 society men and women Of the
! city were patrons and patronesses. The
! local committee in charge was as follows:
! Harry 8. Byrne, John w. Battn, Philip
s. Reed, Harry Turkey, T. w. Switzler and
oliver s. Erwin.
! After the entertainment an informal
| complimentary dance was given by the
/ Panhelenic club at Chambers academy,
with the members Of the glee and man
dolin clubs as special guests. The dance
was also largely attended and a great So
! cal success.
The glee and mandolin clubs are about
to start on a western tour, to include
towns in Nebraska, Colorado and wyo-
miag. They will leave Lincoln next
! "Wednesday