Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-22
ALL IS READY FOR
GAMUT CLUB SHOW

Seemingly a minstrel show has more
ends than a piece Of string. Perhaps
that's a puzzle. and perhaps its joke.
I don't know, and, anyway, you can
figure 1t out for yourself. "Wingless"
Wing of the Gamut club is the origin
ator of the idea. Having been news
paper man before he obtained his pres
ent position, Wing is used to String
ing" professional habit which
doubtless will come in handy next
Wednesday night when he appears as
one Of the numerous lend men" Of the
Gamut club MINISTRIES at the Audito-
rum.
Then, there's. Jud Rush. Can you
imagine the scholarly and rotund legal
luminary, his wonted brilliancy shin
ing through a reasonably thick coating
Of burnt cork? Rush will be there.
He proposes TO make speech. No
one told me that, but know Rush. 1t
will be a good speech, too; the kind OF
speech that is calculated to make a
jury acquit the vilest joke ever per-
petrated without leaving the jury box.
That accounts for two of the ends.
There are four more. E. Salyer, l.. ].
Selby, T. H. Ostrom and c. A. Hunt,
have been assigned to the positions.
Hunt was once an actor. He Is try
ing to live that down now, and has
partially reformed The others haven't.
Hunt is funny. Sometimes he's sad.
That's when he sings.
Recently he has Anticipated around
and dug up lot of old jokes to spring
upon the public Wednesday night. The
only thing that will stop him is a cor
don of police. Out back of the barn
the other night he was rehearsing some
Of his gags, with a pet parrot as au-
dience and friend reading the part
Of the gentlemanly interlocutor. What
the parrot heard-he was in a cage
and couldn't go out for drink
sounded something like this:
Good evening, Mr.. Hunt"
"Ah, there, Mr.. Frazier"
1.-THE name is Hunt, 1 believe. Now,
Mr.. Hunt, where is hunting best?"
Hunting is best at Huntington
beach, Mr.. Frazier; and. by the way,
II you're thinking Of buying lot down
there I'll have Joe Galbraith call upon
you"
"That won't do" said the friend;
"that free ad. you're giving Galbraith
will kill your laugh. Give 'em time to
laugh at the Joke before you intro
QuCo yOOT puoiiiCSos ANOWB AOs . 49, -
again."
They did.
"Think it's funny?" asked Hunt.
"Great," said the friend. But the
parrot swore like a 1ongshoreman and
they had to take him into the house
and throw a towel over the cage be-
fore they could still his indignation.
Elaborate preparations are making
for this minstrel show. The manage
ment announces the offer of valua-
BILE souvenir to every one In the audi
ence who can discover anywhere In the
performance q joke of more recent
vintage than the time of the Ptolemies.
AS for the local gags. none not af-
fected by the statute of limitations
will be allowed on the premises.
Musically the show will be "reve-
lation." The clubs press agent says
SO, and he isn't going to sing, which
ought to help some. By special and
particular request of q mining man
who has been lost on the desert for
the past year and who has never
heard 1t, an augmented orchestra will
play that street-piano classic, "The
Merry Widow Waltz"
There will be other features, too, in
GLIDING boxing and fencing bouts,
which will be refereed by James J.
Jeffries, the best known and most pop
ular big mitt man In the world.
The program, unexpurgated and sub
feet to revision by the committee, has
been submitted for publication as fol-
lows:
Club Minstrel Show
Endmen-E. salyer. L. J. selby, T.
H. Ostrom, Jud Rush, w. II. Wing
and c. A. Hunt.
Interlocutor-M. p. Frasier.
PROGRAM.
Doxk nnan9po rhnry1a UIsYf1 Going
Away" song, Business Is Business"
Mr.. Ostrom; song, "Ephraham john
son Don't Live Here No Mo-" Mr..
Salyer; "Down the River Nile." by
Mr.. Jepson and Philharmonic quartet;
Summertime" Mr.. Bowes; "Ghost OF
the Banjo Coon" Willard Clawson;
ION Board a Man-o'-War," Mr.. Fra
sier; bass solo, Mr.. Charles HARDWOOD.
Part II-"Merry Widow" orchestra;
whistling solo and approximations. HI.
Ray Condit; organ solo. Tacatta from
Fifth Symphony (Widos) Ernest
Douglas; monologue, Ellsworth Salyer;
original sketch played by company of
professionals; reveries by the Euter-
pean quartet. J. p. Dupuy. l.. Emma
mon, r. e. May and F. Wallace; 1.-THE
Negro Preacher" Lamar A. Harris;
fencing exhibition by Prof. Nytten-
hove and warde L. Heller of Los An
geles Athletic club; two sword duels
by w. l.. Heller and H. Meller, Nyt-
tenhove and Dietrich, l.. A. A. c.;
Van Kahn and George Damron, two
rounds boxing exhibition of two min
utes each, contestants at las pounds;
Walla Wheeler and Sam Coulter, two
rounds, referee James ]. Jeffries; songs
by Philharmonic quartet, Leroy Jep-
son, T. Harold Ostrom, A. Sheldon
Balinger and DR.. ]. Lester Adams.
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Nary Hall, until last week leading
woman Of the Sherman Brown stock
company In Milwaukee, is on her way
west to join Henry Miller In San
Francisco. Miss Hall will succeed
Edythe Olive as leading woman Of
Mr.. Miller's company, and is expected
| to come to Los Angeles with him when
he returns here later. She Is bru-
nette of striking appearance, whose
stage experience has been largely in
stock organizations of the middle
west. notably in Kansas City and Mil
waukee. In private life she Is Mrs.
Smith Hall. Her husband, a newspa-
per man, was formerly employed in
| this city on an evening paper.
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