The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-17
ADJUSTMENTS.
Last Niuht's PLAY.


Those persons who wonder why
hundreds brave the elements to see
minstrel performance should have
been present at the opera house last
night when Al Fields troops of fun
makers played to a house packed to
the doors. Al Field has been making
regular tours of the south for the last
twenty-five years, and his bill this
year is not only the best bill that he
has ever presented but it is practically
the perfection of the art Of minstlelsy.
The scenic effects are elaborate in
the extreme, the choruses full and
sweet, the ballad singers deserve the
makers are numerous and unsurpassed
In their lines.
The bill Is divided into three parts
with several scenes each and there
is not dull moment from the time
the curtain rises on gorgeous setting
Might and Morning, or Down Where
the Cotton Blossoms Grow" until the
| curtain falls upon the second scene Of
the "Old Ocean Depths" unQuestion-
ably one Of the finest scenic effects
ever seen on the Pensacola stage,
which, unfortunately, was lost to one
half Of the audience by the other half
standing up before the scene was over
in their haste to leave the building,
or else to be seen by the audience
OF the many tuneful songs that the
company sings none of the new ones
are better received than were "Old
Black Joe" by John Healy and the
chorus. and when You and I Were
Young" by Jack Richards; Nellie
Gray" by Earl Woods. Other songs
which were especially enjoyed by the
audience were:
I'D Rather Have Folks Say How
| That Man Can Run than There He
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When You Were In Your Teens
Love Wins Always"-Walter Sher-
wood.
Baby Rose"-Earl Woods.
Wake Baby Eyes of Blue"-"Pick-
anninny Mine, Good Night"-Herbert
Wilson.
For Killarney and You"-wm H.
Starr.
Good Fellow"-Burt Swor.
THE Crown of Life"-Paul La
Londe.
THE Rosary'-Alton Robertson.
my Heart Has Learned To Love
You"-Reginald Merville.
Where the River Shannon Flows
Eriol Weiss.
THE Parson"-John Healy.
eff All My Dreams Were Made of
Gold, I'd Buy the World for You
Jack King Tllman.
"Andalusia" Paul LaLonde and
Ensemble.
The baseball game between the
Darktown Blues and the Tar Babys
is exceedingly amusing and gives Doc
Quigley and Burt Swor opportunity
to entertain the audience with some of
their inimitable expressions, and the
dancing and singing as the teams
gather to battle for the championship
keeps the audience in a constant up
roar.
The second part Of the bill is even
better than the first and the audience
has an opportunity OF seeing the new
acquisition to the the Field aggrega-
tion-Burt Swor. Theatregoers have
wondered what kind of man he was to
be who would outshine Doc Quigley,
John Heeley, and the others who have
made his show popular. This fellow
certainly occupies a place all to him
self. Sis singing. talking and dancing
is just a little different from those
who would impersonate the southern
negro characters and Swor has per-
fected the impersonation as well as
bringing to the minstrel stage a style
of original wit unknown to it before.
Doc Quigley fails to play his from
bone but he makes up for this omis-
sion with other good features and his
dancing, with that of his twelve dane
ing kids, is one of the features of the
bill.
AL Field has given the public his
best work this season and he was
given an audience last night that he
deserved and one that appreciated
him.