The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-03-01
ENTERTAINMENTS AND EN-.
TREATMENTS.


Audience Thursday Evening
An Entertainer Who Enter
ains-Elbert Poland and the
Italian Boys Give a Good Corr
cert-A Shame to Tell on
Another Show.
The Observation-Disclosures
day evening in the auditorium of
the graded school building by
Mr.. Karl Jansen, Swedish hui
morist and entertainer, was one
of the most delightful that Lum-
berton people have had the op-
portunity of enjoying under their
own vine and fig tree, so to
speak, in a blue moon. The au-
dience was a good one, but if
the people had known just what
manner Of entertainment it was
the school auditorium would have
been packed.
And, when you come to think
about it, one cannot say, in a
word, just what sort of enter
tainment it was. Only it was
good, all the way through; there
was not a dull or an uninterest-
ing moment from the time Mr..
Jansen came upon the stage I'M
til the close. He gave a rapid
sketch of life and customs
in "The Land of the Midnight
Sum-" illustrated Swedish physi-
cal culture methods, comparing
them with the slack, slip-shod
methods often practiced in this
country and showing forcibly
the effect in after life upon the
children taught the widely dis
similar methods. His interpre-
tation of James Whitcombe Ri
ley's Nothing To Say" was ex-
quisite, and the scene he gave
from Shakespeare's Richard III
was superb, transporting the au-
dience to the England of that
day, portraying wildly the mis-
shapen, devilish King who had
, gained and most hold his crown
= by bloodshed, and compelling
5 breathless interest.
l This is merely a glance at some
e of the prominent features of the
4 entertainment, which was bright
and snappy all the way through,
0 except, of course, in the pathetic
! selection from Riley and the
: scene from Shakespeare.
Last on the programme was a
E duel between Mr.. Jansen and
. Capt. A. Bicherey, proprietor OF
= the Waverly Hotel. Mention has
heretofore been made in these
columns of the fact that Capt.
$ Bicherey was formerly a captain
Il in the French army, an officer ir
s fencing, and for severalyears af
a ter coming to America he gave
: fencing lessons in New York
o City. So Capt. Bicherey was il
e his element; it was pie for him
S Both men flashed the foils with
practiced hands while the au
+ dience held it's breath, and finally
i Capt. Bicherey found his way
O inside Mr.. Jansen's guard ane
It killed him dead, and-that wa
f all.
T. Mr.. Jansen is an entertainel
|. who entertains. He is away of
e of the beaten path, and by 81
much is he interesting more thai
the usual seven and six. He il
9, q all right.
:. Ebert Poland and the Italian
Z. Boys was the attraction at tn
D Opera House Saturday evening
h The audience was slim which i
" a pity, for they gave a delightful
IS concert. The Italian Boys ar
(, all to the good, each and several
and Mr.. Foland's readings ,wer
r., good. Mr.. Poland is, however
= something stiff, something me
ia chanical, in his readings, and h
70 was unfortunate IL that one O
# his selections was given here re
Is Gently by the lady with the De
m Koven Quartette-and give
20 with more of the spirit and ur
is derstanding, too, if one must tie
m the truth. However, Mr.. Folan
was not bad, and the boys wer
pure delight. Every one of the
r. selections was enjoyed immense
n ly. "A Night in Venice" whic
on was the last word, was just some
OF thing to hitch some delightf1
tn music to, and it was all right.
ne The name of Karl Crook, S,
TX prano, appears spaced out G
81 the programme as though h
'e,- were the bright particular ste
en- of the aggregation. If they al
ne starring him because he's g
ne oddity in several ways it's 6
right. He looks like a girl, wall
as like a girl and sings like a ra
ar- egg-if you know how a raw es
ch sings-and reminds one curiou
ar ly of a cat tapping milk. An
no. way, his voice is very fresh, al
ce. he strikes some really go
of notes.
led And so the concert was
the right.
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