The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-03
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Il didn't know we had so many
fine-looking young men in town. My
but wasn't the singing great"
This is only a sample of the many
complimentary remarks passed by
the crowd of almost seven hundred
people which filled the Lyric Theatre
Thursday night, when the Base Ball
Minstrels held the boards with a
three-hour long, two part perform
ance.
There wasn't any question about
the minstrels being entertaining. For
providing a large amount of pleas
urable eXcitation, it has seldom been
equaled, and never been beaten in
Honesdale. From beginning to end
it was one long laugh fest.
The value of team work was new
er so apparent as in the first part of
the program entitled THE japanese
Lawn Festival" Every one of the
singers was recalled, and if they are
as successful in hitting the ball safe
ly next summer as they were in
making hits with the audience that
night, it will keep the Honesdale
tailors busy handing out suits of
clothes as rewards for home runs.
The opening overture introduced
the entire company seated on the
stage in the usual minstrel way.
Vigor and vim and perfect trim were
apparent in their broad shoulders,
whose lines of strength the absence
of coats and vests, helped to dis
play.
Umpire Michael J. Hanlan, the
man with the fan, and the man for
the fans, and great fan himself, an
nounced the batting order. The
first at the bat was Stanley Wilson,
who landed a safe drive just inside
the first base line that was good for
two bingles-we mean an encore.
His doleful song commenced when
the Hearts Behind A Kiss
The rest, commencing with Chas.
Truscott, were all good for two bag
gers. One of the performers even
landed a three bagger.
This is the way they came to the
bat in the first inning:
PART |.
The japanese Lawn Festival"
Opening Overture Entire Company
When the Hearts Behind a Kiss"
............. Stanley Wilson
Marguerite" ..... Charles Truscott
Chicken Reel .Thos. Charlesworth
Il Wonder How the Old Folks Are
at Home '......... Paul Sonner
Mandy LOU ....... Louis Loomis
Where the River Shannon Flows"
............... Harry Madden
"you Can't Jolly Molly Anymore"
...... John Carroll
Dream On, Dear Heart, Dream On"
.............. Joseph Folk
Molly Lee. John Carroll and Co
Michael j. Hanlan, Interlocutor
Some clever local take-offs were
registered between the songs. The
streets, the trolley, the times, pretty
nearly everything was made the sub
ject for good-natured badinage.
The first act was brought to a
close with an ensemble by the per-
formers, who lined up in the front
of the stage, and spelled out the
words 'Honesdale Ball Team on
fans.
The end men were John Carroll
Jos. Jacobs, Clarence Green, Robert
Dorm, Thomas Charlesworth, Will
liam Kupfer.
The chorus was composed of Stan.
ley Wilson, Henry Theobald, Pau
Sonner, Louis A. Loomis, Charles
Truscott, Horace Wizard, Fred But
Ter, Harry Madden, Jos. Folk, George
Rippel, Walter JeitZ, Charles Jeitz
Claude Chase, Vincent Carroll, Jacot
Breithaupt.
The second act was opened by
George Loercher, the contortionist
who bent, doubled up and tied him.
self into all sorts of shapes imagin.
able. Mr.. Loercher generously gave
his spare time for three weeks in
preparing for his part in the show
and to say that he took the audience
by storm is putting it mildly.
Master Russell Dunn, the sweet
voiced boy soprano of Scranton, sang
My Hero" in a rich clear voice
He was encored, of course.
John Sutton, the winner of the
defamation prize in the recent tri
angular contest at ,Carbondale, tool
the leading part in a playlet entitled
THE Indian Chieftain," in a way
that would have done credit to any
member of a degree team in the Rec
Men. He was supported by a com
pany of listening Continentals.
An instrumental quintette the
members of which were Walter
Jeitz, Fred Butler, Rex Nicholson
mandolins; Claude Chase, banjo
Charles Jeitz, guitar, was a pleasing
feature of the second act.
John Carroll and Robert DoriI
brought down the house with theil
little skit entitled Just Before Tht
Wedding"
Michael j. Hanlan was applaudeC
to the echo when he delivered hi
inimitable baseball talk. He saiC
that more genuine pleasure and re
creation could be cotton out of bas'
ball than all other games combined
He described the heart-rending anC
purse-racking efforts put forth b.
Carbondale in former seasons, wheI
they vainly tried to wrest the hon
ors from Honesdale. In his opinion
Honesdale has not deteriorated. HI
believed that the enthusiasm TO
baseball in Honesdale, the most fam
Gus base ball town in Pennsylvania
is on the increase.
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