Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-09
CENEV|EVE wins OUT
Awarded Chief Prize in ANA
teur Night Contest.
CAPTURES HER AUDITORS
Young America Quartet Mute With
Grief.
HAD HOPED TO TAKE TROPHY
Hilarious Scenes That Greeted the
Various Vocalists, Comedians
and Monologists.
HAD HOPED TO TAKE TROPHY

The Young America Quartets muse is
mute today No longer does that frolick-
ing four-average age, thirteen years
sing and dance and disgorge comic jokes:
for deep-bosomed Grief, heavy handed
and unrelenting, grasps each chortilng
member OF the Young America Quartet
by the throat. And when singer is
xrasped by the throat he cannot sing
The reason for all this is because Gene
We've Much, aged ten years. came out
and sang something about her widowed
mother marrying the young man whom
she (Genevieve) wanted to marry, and
now she will never introduce her best
Teller to her mother any more. Gene
We've got a gold watch at amateur
night contest" at a moving picture the
alter last night, after a wildly enthusi-
astic audience roared and whistled its
approval, while young man who re-
ferred to himself as 1.-The management
went about the stage holding his hands
over the heads Of the various amateur
contestants.
ANY amateur in the city who can stano
being kidded for fifteen minutes can take
a fall out Of amateur night every Frlday
from 10 pm to IL pm. The Young
America Quartet, which last night tooh
the consolation prize Of one gold stlcKpln,
to be worn in turn by each OF the Iour
members, has been taxing falls regularly
for n month past. and last night they
Thought they had that watch nailed last
To their mast. II II had not been Tor
Miss Much! The audience went WHO
over Miss Much. aged ten, ana sne wac
the only amateur who was not told TO 20
soak her head or to<be gathered into the
''hoOk.'
Hiawatha's Unfortunate Fate.
After the moving pictures, and after
two loose jointed young men had DUCK
danced their way all over the stage inc
Young man who .discards the personal
nronoun for the more elusive term Tie
mana cement came upon the boards ana
talking from the side of his mouth, m
troduced Hiawatha and WOOD, ac.oIH
All would have been we'll had not RIA
watha torn his pants In a vain endeaVoe
to turn a back flip. Ach! Such roar ci
derision arose from the auolehce: ~,
howls and jeers! Hiawatha. "eepins,
was pulled into cherries size entrance
Nv heartless stage manager Ihen'
witb a burst Of two-f1ngered piano music:
emerged Vokeman and Sill, comedians:
If Vokeman and Sill could nave so' ~
of the idea that there had peen d na 10.
used their hands to talk with tnere h i.E
have been more applause and less yet
the hook r co,aarson black
face magician. ''Oh. you SKATE: iohn,a
a friend in the front seat, and John
Voice was not heard from that moment
On to the end of his short act. iney
howled and shouted. threw peanuts anu
cigarettes. Men stood up ana oecKoneo
to folks in the back ,s aea absee tricks and
.,,hethar thew we're carried of right or
not no one seemed to care.
The Young Americans.
And then came the Young America
Three young men in citizens
knee pants and one very young man
dressed in a red cotton dress suit. This
last was something of comedian. and
he took the crowd right by the ears and
into them as hard as he could.
The close harmonies and the barber shop
chords that these young Americans got
off were something fierce, but everybody
just loved It and cheered worse than they
did yesterday afternoon when the last
run was flashed on The Stars electric
score board. They Were real clever hui
morists too, and told comic jokes about
not taking bath and being able to ma
pole cats at the pole.
And then came 1.-The Lady from Green
land" dressed in a bear skin suit. sing
ing something-probably about DR.. Cook
and Peary No one heard her. She was
dragged off the stage by 'the manage
ment" who wanted to save the lady from
harm.
Walter BUGGY. "Washingtons favorite
baritone" stood it for two songs. Eight
solid rows Of youngsters tried their best
to drive him off. but his voice roared
through the melee and he backed off
ora cefuliy as a diplomat leaving the pres
ence of royalty.
Miss Much Makes a Hit.
And then-Genevieve Much. She is not
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