Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-05
Playhouses Ring with
Laughter Running Riot
Evans and "Honey Boy Min-
strels Get Grief's GOAT
at the Newark.

TisTAH BONES. Mistah Tamoe
Evans have arrived bag and
baggage and registered at the NeWarh
Theatre for a weeks visit IN our tnriN
ing burg. They come with a retinue
of black-face servants skilled IN the
art of terpsichore and with Voices
blending ia delicious harmony. lhey
sing with equal effectiveness the sweet
darkey slumber song and the viVacloas
and Irresistible peculiar rag. It's q
minstrel show. One can tell that py
h noon-day parade, with Its minstre,
hand the high hats, the canes anu
the long silken coats But the sno"
On the street and the show IN the
theatre are two different Things. -
was some show.
Although George Evans didn't appear
,,ntil the curtain was run down on the
srst act no one got peeyish or rest
Tess Rnt when he did arrive the auol
ance. for the time being. was pernii.-
rod r. forget all that had gone before
and cling closely to him. One mas "
cling closely to Evans, because Il
doesn't there will be a laugh mlsslns
right away. In fact, the u To-
low so closely that instead OF Laughing
again one is laughing yet.
We often wonder what would p
il Mr.. Evans were given a text 1or ms
monologue and made to SUCK 10 IL,
IF his text had the measles his tank
would never catch it.. But taking IN
one breath about owe and poverty
and in the next about politics doesn
matter. Mr.. Evans 'monologues 10
make folks laugh, and he is highly sue
eessful: so where do the critics get
Off
When it comes to the grand finale,
1.-THE Dixie Derby the three best pets
are George Evans" Honey 0 ana
THE Near-Jockey.'
He gets away at the post in asludl-
.,rous pair of tight-ftting trousers, with
ill-shaped legs, he passes the quarter
impersonating a French jockey, at the
half falling In love with q woman and
her fortune, especially her fortune' at
the three-quarters gets a chance to
ride in the Dixie derby and comes
home in the stretch a winner,
But Evans is a winner from the start.
His production is one of scenic beauty
and grandeur. The first part, set in tue
wistaria bower, presents a rapid sec
cession of songs, dances and jokes h a
not fail for one moment to please.
The in%terlocutor, Vaughn Comfort, is
Il comforting relief from the tereo-
style. He is easy and graceful.
above all has a pleasing tenor
veice, and his rendition Of IF Had
YOU brought forth much applause.
The ~soloists in the first part were
iii gifted with extraordinary voices,
and their numbers were heartily and
repeatedly encored. Those who sang
Pierce Keegsn, AL Fontaine, John
James Meehan, Master George
Koty, Lew Gilmorn and James Cantle.
eMoonlight on the Bayou presented
y beautiful picture OF nixteland for
Esart two, in which the company pre-
Down on the Tombigbee."
Whether ii was down on the Tombig-
bee or where it was there was plenty
Of action introduced here. Den culiud
folk suh'tnly did turn things loose"
Charles Crossman and his banjo
0hiends entertained while the stage
hands got busy setting the scene for
grand finale, and from curtain to
curtain there was no cessation It was
an evening delightfully."- spent