Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-12-02
WOODSTOCK NEWS
The Lady Minstrels.

club. sang and joked to large audi
ence at Music hall last week Friday
evening on their first appearance in
our beautiful city. Ii was also their
first appearance on any stage and the
many fulks present seemed to take
very kindly to athe melodious aud
dramatic features of the entertain
ment
The curtain rose on circle oi
seventeen young ladies. The chorus
was rnodestly gowned in white waists
and black skirts, while the end
ladies' were easily distinguished by
the .riotoue octlorings of their cos
tunes.
Behind the circle. on AN elevated
platform. was the Elite orchestra.
the personnel being: Ralph Spauld
ing. violin; @. o Dumas. cornet /:
Charles Cobb, clarinet; Daniel
Gearing. drums Mrs Luna Ilowes
Brown, accornpanist The Elite in
strumentalists harmonized finely and
weres excellent both in their sele,
tions and accompaniments
Here islthe program:
Interlocutor, Mrs. H. H. Spear.
Ends Bones Miss Elizabeth Punk
. att Mfaa GracQ GEARING
Ends-Tambos Miss Caroline Wood,
Miss Mildred Chandler.
Assisted by Miss Eva Hamilton, Miss
Mildred McWain, Miss Bessie Marsh,
Miss Helen Marsh, Miss Mabel Wood
bury, Miss Luna Woodbury., Miss Mary
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Sophia Doxter, Miss
Evelyn Narcotic, Miss Dorothy Mason,
Miss Maude Slayton, Miss Flora Saw
yer.
FIRST PART
Grand Opening Chorus, Company
Ballad-ln the Garden of My
Heart, Mrs. Spear
Popular Song-By the Light of
the Jungle Moon, Miss Plunkett
Popular Song - My Hula. Hula
Love, Miss Woodbury.
Why I'm Lonely, Miss Chandler
Miss Mason
Sentimental Song-When Sunday
Rolls Around, Miss Gearing
Indian Song Navajo Rag,
Popular Song Do It Now,
Miss Wood
SECOND PART
Selections, Mandolin and violin, Marta
and Lima Jzorgsky; monologue, bur-
lesque oration on rhatrimony in The
character of Aunt Chloey, Miss Punk
EFT. A
Sensational burlesque, depicting life
in the sunny South, entitled, my Ole
, Kentucky Home
Cast.
Old Black Joe, an ex-slave so
years of age, C, o. Duma.
Arthur Maynard, owner Of a
: Kentucky plantation, H. H, Spear
Viola Maynard, his daughter,
Z Mrs. H.H. Spear
Charlie Doolittle, her sweetheart,
80 Ralph Spauldine
Edgar Tremble. with a heart Of
Mrs. Alice wilson's fraii widow,
Mrs. C. o. Dumas
Harvey Slick, an adventurer,
Wallace Liberty
George Gallaghe,
chlorinda sourgrass, lady of
color. = Mias Elizabeth Plunketl
Goldie, . guest. Miss Grace Gearing
Pickaninny Chorus,
Young Ladies of the Company
;FcliominGt the opening chorus by
the company Mrs Spear sang j.
the Garden OF My Heart" which wa
the VOCAL feature of Intervening. Th'
songs were all light, catchy. am
minstrelly; and well suited to IN.
several singers, who were all recalled
by the frenzied audience for an, thei
verse or two. Mrs. Plunkeit war
twice obliged to sing and dance
again to satisfy her admirers. The
ladies' went through the first par
smoothly, the chorus especial,
showing careful and patient drill i,
Mrs. Spear. There was slieb
superiority of intensely persona
jokes, but the audience applaudee
as freely as if no one was hurt a bit
The second part of the perform
ance included mandolin and violi'
solos by Miss Caroline Wood ap'
Miss Corinne Ordway, and a mono
logue on the subject of matrimony
BY Miss plunkett. My Old Ken
tucky Home turned out to be some
what sensational, as the program
advised. Mr.. Spear, who said thin
was his first appearance as reQula
actor, had leading part. and MI
Gallagher. who doubled very capabl,