Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-14
HONEY BOYS ARE
GOOD;--BUT, OH,
YOU YESTERDAY!
George Evans and His Minstrel
Show at the Newark
Awaken Memories.
PROGRAM AT PROCTOR'S
REPLETE WITH PLEASANTLY
Theatres All Guido Each Other
in Excellence of Bills
Presented.

SIIS said, and long. hard usage
has borne the saying to within
the realms of respect and relia-
bility, that comparisons are odious;
yet, after watching funny George
Evans, of the versatile legs. and his
honey boys at the Newark this week,
a sigh for the old days just can't help
escaping. though II may be locked and
barred in and chained down. And the
comparison creeps around and slips IN
between the methods of yesterday and
those of today; etwee the people Of
yesterday and those of today.
It is quite true that the methods
have changed, and n may say light
ly: "Oh. people have changed, too;
they want variety, something new,
something with snap and 60" &
But have they? Dc they? If so,
why that sigh?
We all of us patronize vaudeville
nowadays; we have it set to music and
gowned with a chiffon plot overdress
in the guise of musical comedy; we go
to the moving picture show, and vaude-
vile is slipped in while we are not
watching, and now it Is turned n
pressed, dyed black and set before us
bearing another name. True, we X
change, and one to take US pack 20
the ole -fashioned minstrel show would
be welcome-back to a good Eddie
Leonard "wah-wah-wah" song, that
one could go home and make attempts
at warbling; some good old clog dane
ing that you find yourself keeping
time to with your hands, some darkies
loading cotton on a river steamboat
and finally the old log cabin in the
moonlight. with someone STUNNING
on the banjo and singing Way Down
Upon not forgetting the stories and
Jokes.
Log CabiB and Moonlight Were There.
True, the cabin and the moonlight
on the water were there last night,
Just to remind one, and the jokes, too
many were old friends and reliable
but the old steamboat was changed
into big gray battleships, model of 1911,
flashing &c. @. D." signals, instead Of
loading cotton and watermelons. The
dancing became a clever drill to the
notes of the r~eveille, and the stories
~coagulated into a viscous dissertation
on the why of the great disaster at
Reno last Independence Day-viscous
10 one-half the audience. for whom, as
hdS GApldlItd, IL Nob nv ACoA
The entertainment was in two parts.
and sub-divided. Following the songs
by members of the circle, Honey Boy"
Evans smoked a cigar and, Incl
dentally, amused all by himself, to the
chorus of an u%proarious audience. that
laughed, despite the act that some OF
the sallies descended to- the plane OF
the A lullaby and dances by
the light of an aforementioned loon
were next in order, and then Gentle
mar Jim Corbett, having exchanged
the boxing gloves for white kids and
lending grace and shoulders on which
sonnets Nigh. be written to his eve
ming dress, explained to h other half
how Jeffrfes was a regular lobster TOT
agreeing to hit on the breakaways'
And he told how the latter ]. j. lost
his confidence. anyway, because Billy
Somebody went over to the former j.
Us corner-though we never knew be-
fore that rings had corners.
Real Conan Firemen's Picnic.
And then there was a real George
NJ. Cohan "f1remen's picnic" which
turned into a revolver n razor prac-
tise match, and more dances.
The little minstrel is still possessed
of the grand uproar voice and legs that
are like the door In the buffers pantry
they can be pushed out or in with
eoual facility. They are finished at
one extremity with Panhandle Pete