El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-23
"HOneyboy" Ministries

The audience had to applaud to keep
from freezing. but they would have
applauded anyhow, for Honey Boy
George Evans and his Ministries are
about the greatest fun makers FL Paso
has seen in a long time Evans and
his blackface boys were visitors to Fl
Paso Saturday and Sunday and they
gave two performances at the II Paso
theater. The audiences were not large,
but they were enthusiastic and they
shivered patiently and applauded loud
~. As on previous occasions, there
was nc heat in the theater-the fur
mace IS busted the usherS explained
when asked
Evans got over one Of his biggest
hits when ne appeared in his mono
log and. after he had received his
first round Of applause, said; That's
fine; keep it up and you'll keep warm
Ever notice how il makes the blood
circulate TO clap your hands2 I know
it's cold in here I have been asking
them about il and they tell me they
have tried everything, but haven't
been able to get the place warm
asked them If they had tried coal and
they said they hadn't thought of that"
Evans is one of the funniest mono
ICgists in the country. Before he or
ganlZed his minstrel company. he was
one of the highest salaried blackface
mOnolOgists on the vaudeville stage
Half an hour with him is enough to
drive off a weeks accumulation Of
the blues He doesn't deDend on set
riety to make his audience laugh His
strongest point is his ability to turn
almost anything inrO a joke and to
keep up a line Of patter about local
things that make bis auditors shake
with laughter. He appeared on the
stage Saturday night for his first en-
trance nmplng and explained: Its
such a long wall from JuareZ to FL
PasO- Ever try it-after the last racer
Then when the audience applauded, ne
sprung the one about the heat Them
I like FL PasO; I'M glad to be here,
but-lOoking out over the small audi
ence-'if / came often, I'd go broke.
Say, why don't YOU people move over
here into this box; then we can all
be close together. L like your town,
though, and I want to come here again
/ want TO come some time when I've
got about ten thousand dollars-
want TO get a meal at the PasO del
Norte- Honest, You can get a good
meal there for that price, not a meal
with coffee and cream and all that
but a pretty good meal For another
ten thousand they'll give you cream
and coffee.
Now girls, when I sing this little
song, / want all of you to join me in
the chorus I want all the single
girls who want to get married to sing
and 1 want all the married ones who
want to be single to sing. You single
girls had better sing first. for If you
wait for the others, they'll drown you
out.
Speaking of girls. I know one who !
found a burglar under her bed and she !
went out and notified a policeman and |
had him arrested; she didn't scream !
or faint; she was a brave girl. I told J
a man here about it and he said he
Z Tof Of IL
do the same thing 1 told him he (
was wrong; that they couldn't do it;
they couldn't find the policeman.
Il went over to JUarez tOday-Fve /
been where the JuareZ (War isl and I
/ found out what started it One fell F,
low took a tamale away from the 4
other fellow. Then somebody led with 4
an enchilada and the battle was on. 4
It's sad, but we are having war every I!
China. in Turkey. in Mexico I
no. that's only a moving picture 1
war-but we are having lots of wars,
anyhow"
In this manner. he rambles along
in a way that is all his own and he /
makes the audience wish it could lis
ten to him every night.
And with him, Evans has one Of the ]
best minstrel shows on the rOad-Over
80 people altogether. and they are all
artists. Their dancing is better than 4
any minstrel show if has been the good /
fortune Of El Pasoans to see. and their
solos and chOruses are all musical The
has had the benefit of some /
splendid rehearsinE and the drilling Of /
the men in the different steps is as
near perfect as humans can be. The
orchestra of IS pieces is itself a treat Z
and it PLAYS things besides ragtime.
too. and plays them right The or
chestra itself got a lot of applause
from the FL PasO audiences.
Chas. billiard, female impersonator.
Is a feature of the Golightlv Guards /
sSit which concludes the performance. |
His imDcrsonatiou is splendid. His !
rarncrisus. his voice and his makeup
are such that he could impersonatc a {