Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-18
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FIELD EXCEEDS SPEED LIME.

FIELD EXCEEDS SPEED LIMIT.
 For originality, elaborateness. real com6ay and genuine melody the AlsG. Field Greater Minstrels who are Touring the country on their twefty-fifth jubilee anniversary In their silver lined touring car is eX- ceeding the speed limit this year With the usual packed house to greet them the company appeared al the Elks Theater last night.
 sAa Field isn't exactly an actor, sshess ad institution. Perhaps they IiaffSuc ccessful seasons in Pine Bluff !. bef6fk, Al was born, and perhaps the 3, thaAter prospered, but it wouldn't seem just the proper caper to have a season here and try to do business unless the Al G. Field Minstrels came to town. In the majority of his early season towns he sets the merry-merry pace and things start right. If you care for minstrelsy,
 
 don't there's something about his show that's likely to hit your funny bone.
 This year it's "Chant-I-Cheer," the craps game and plantation scene. Starting with the beautiful spectacle in three scenes and tableau en- titled "Minstrelsy in All Ages of the World the Field company intro- duced many novelties never before seen here. It was truly a night of twentieth century minstrelsy. Every thing is new and up to date. And yet MT. Field has retained all the old-time features of the old-time burnt cork show that are we'll worth perpetuating. He offers an array of novelties in the musical and dancing line that surpass any of his former efforts. Vocally, indeed, this mins- trel combination is one of the best ever heard here. Thee's Doc Quigley, John Healy, Gov. Bowen, Sam Harris and Johnny Dove. They get many a laugh, while Doves dancing made a decided hit. The Bell Hops.' which get away with some great feet work and keep things moving while they are on. John Healy's negro parson impersonation and his "Old Black Joe' won favor, and equal applause greeted Bowen's Walk Right in, Sit Right Down and Make Yourself at Home" Jesperson's bass solo was one of the features in the burlesque "Cant-I-Cheer'
 The show is alive with good voca- lists and good musicians. The orchestra, to begin with, is a splen- did organization. The voices of the balladists are unusually good, rang ing from hundred-fathoms- under the sea bass to the male soprano. who is present in something over a thousand ways. Herbert Willison, Walter Sherwood, Charles Reinhardt, Jack Richards, Tommy Weir and others of equal worth were top heavy favorites with the audience. Their ! vocal numbers. especially Willison's
 ballad, Whisper and I Shall Hear,'' was one of the musical gems of the evening and his strong voice was heard to fine advantage Reinhardt's . Sleepy Eyes" (yodle) song was accorded fine hand and merited it. That Loving Trumerei'' delight s fully rendered by Sam Harris. The
 sextette from Martha by the vocal choir was musically rendered. There are, thank heaven, fewer wishy- Washy ballads about the wash rag grandma used when ninety-eight and the favorite cornfield where father hid when full. You know the kind. Knapp and Listette, acrobats. do some clever work.
 The scenic equipment of the show Is rich. There was scarcely a per- son in the house but felt a genuine kregret,-aen the curtain went down.