The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-25

W. took to initiate President
Roosevelt in his sketch nomi-
mated "A Dull Day at the Whlte
House. at the Newark Theatre last
night there were loud examinations
from out in front which continued IN
full force and volume until the curtain.
Lew comes in with an order from
the President turning over the affairs
of the nation to the minstrel man for
one day, and Secretary Globe" i'm
mediately proceeds to stand from under.
Word is received from Fairbanks,
and the atmosphere congeals visibly.
An enormous cocktail, with a huge
cherry in a glass that, for size, would
do credit to an East Side beer store,
is indicted and placed under the care
full surveillance of the President. Ihat
parsonage now proceeds to dictate a
message. inquire into certain treatles
with China and Abyssinia, shoot d
wild bearskin roaming at large over
Secretary Globes head, pull the WIS
kcrs of the counterfeit presentments
Of three members of the Ananias Clup
hanging on the wall and grab the Dig
stick for a SAL Juan movement against
the office entrance whenN the name OIL
Hartman is announced.
During this comparative idlenes
President Dockstader finds time to at
tend to the case of the japanese am
bassador, Ajoki, who comes in NUT
tering volubly in Nipponese and gem
orally making a noise like a man with
a grievance. Lew chases him around
the room with the big stick, mixes nm
p~romiscuously up with the furniture,
and otherwise jiu-jitsus him into a
better appreciation of the necessity for
peace and harmony. After ascertain
ing that the Fairbanks cocktail is still
intact and putting 1t ava in the safe,
out of the reach of Secretary Globe,
the president hastens to investigate
Governor Fort, Sheriff Sommer, Mayor
Haussling and other New Jersey Off
Gals, also paying his respects to Jake
the barber. Meanwhile Herr Blowem-
upsky has entered with a bomb, patent
fireworks attached. a large eXpanse of
anarchistic whisker and a loo like a
malefactor of great wealth relieving his
mind on the administration. The
President hands the bomb over to the
Japanese ambassador. and the dull day
ends as the bomb explodes amid a dis
play outside the window like an old
clothes store in active eruption.
The burlesque is all good-natured
and fairly funny. even though there
WAS never any danger last night of
anyone bursting a blood-vessel from
too much laughing. When Dockstader
first seated himself at the executive
desk and donned his eyeglasses, his
rough-rider hat and his p%rotuberant
n1n1are fIaro xx,ag In CT ~ Y,prarfotfn,
for the likeness vas striking. 1t was
as good a caricature of the President
in ~black-face as could be imagined.
This was but one of many features
in the Dockstader show. The audience
seemed to find them all acceptable.
They %applauded the singing, and the
singing deserved 1t. and they ever
laughed at the jokes! The sort OF
thing that a minstrel man can spring
on an audience and get away with
Is a caution. The Dockstader end men
did have a few new ones. but some
of the others resembled the operations
of grave-robbers.
Neil O'Brien had a special collection
of elderly ones. but h has such q
funny way with him that he gets the
laugh, whether or no. He made a first.
rate second to Dockstader as a mirth.
maker. In the first part he represent.
ed himself as a Sturgeon and the
story of his illustrations to a mar
with a cinder in his eye was, to Dor.
row his own phrase, o. X, all right
Neil and the in%terlocutor spent at leasf
five minutes calculating the meaning o
Q. *. to each other, and the brand o
nonsense they gave out was charac
teristic of all the rest of the typica
minstrel fun-making. Neil's a~fterpieee
called Quick Lunch" was compare
lively easy to stay awake through.
Joining the Elks.' 1.-THE Land o
Nicotine and "Reveille at Wes
Point were the titles of three othe'
specialties. There was some especial,
lively clogging in the last two. and TIL,
drilling in the West Point sketch wa
we'll done. The singing in the conven
tional first part was first-rate, tn
voices in the choruses blending in eX
cellent harmony.
Anyone who likes minstrel shows wi
enjoy himself at the Newark Theatr
this week, for Dockstader's is the bes
minstrel show running. r. M. L.
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