The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-11
better Than EVER
WAS COBURN'S
MINISTRIES
PERFORMANCE TUESDAY NIGHT
WAS ABOVE AvERAeE-NEw
CLEAN AND ENTERTAINING

Coburn's Minstrels, successors to
the celebrated Barlow Minstrels Of
nearly generation ago, always main
tanning the high standard of their pre-
decessors and improving with each
succeeding season, presented one OF
the cleanest shows at the Auditorium
Tuesday evening that lovers of min
strelsy have ever been treated to in
Hattiesburg. Minstrels come and 60
some appearing one season only, 9TH
ers at long intervals, but Coburn's
Greater Minstrels is an annual event
In Hattiesburg, where they are always
accorded the warm welcome their
clean performance merits.
The show presented by Manager ].
A. Coburn this year. in the opinion Of
many who witnessed the performance
Tuesday night, is the very best he
has ever offered in his long, success
ful career. And that is to say, it is
the equal of any ever seen here. In
Nick Glynn and Charley Gano, those
premier funmakers, 1t would seem that
the best in black-face comedians had
been cornered They are a whole
show, individually or collectively, and
the freshness and naturalness of their
humor was like draught of fresh
spring water after much strong drink.
This is the second season Gano has
been with Coburn's Minstrels, but he
has won a permanent place in the
hearts of his audiences. Old Nick
Glynn, quaint, droll and wonderfully
versatile, is favorite, who has long
delighted lovers of the best in black
face comedy. The farcical sketches
and monologues presented by these
fun-makers were the hits of the even
ing and the numerous encores seemed
to encourage them to greater efforts
to please, and their dialect songs were
unusually captivating.
The singing, music and dancing was
well up to the Coburn standard: If any
thing, the company this season CON
tains more sweet voiced singers than
heretofore. Old favorites and new
songs rendered during the first part
of the show, all of which were in
variably received with lusty approval,
were Music With My Meals" Allen
Settle; "In the Sunshine of Your
Love-" Leslie D. Berry; Slippery Slide
Trombone" Ed Fisher; when Silver
Threads are Shining 'Mong the Gold"
Dick Teitge; "Ragtime Cowboy Joe"
Charley Gano;" Sexton and the Bell"
Lester Lucas; when the Old Oaken
Bucket Was New" Patrick Mallon.
Odds and Ends of Harmony, by the
University Four, Teitge, Mallon, Set
tie and Lucas, was a specially pleas
ing novelty. A funny vaudeville act
by Glynn and Dillworth, in which they
show their mastery Of musical instru-
ments, was something different and
furnished one long laugh.
The dancing giraffe, the closing act.
in which Glynn and Gano again had
an opportunity to shine, vas fitting
close to a performance that had not
been dull for one minute. The antics
of the improvised animal kept the au-
dience in an uproar and extracted Just
about the last laugh there was left in
the Congregation" as Gano called it.
With new scenery, new costumes,
new people and new music and new.
clean jokes, Coburn's Minstrels, it may
be said again, are greater this season
than ever, and the performance given
here will insure the company a warm
welcome next season
Just one word Of friendly advice.
Manager Hammack: Before the cur.
tain rose, the negroes and small boys
in the loft" we're rowdy. You ought
not to permit that. Genteel people do
not like to be where there is shrill
whistiing and loud boisterous conduct.
You ought to get good "bouncer" for
the "loft" and station him there as
soon as the doors open. Because there
never has been good behavior up
there is no reason why there never
should be.