Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-01
AID CLUB AT MERRY FEAST
Fourth Annual Beefsteak Dinner and
Vaudeville Given.
COMMISSIONER CANDIDATES TALK
with Politics Haired Candidates
Enter Into Spirit of Levfty Mt
Clubs Happy Gathering in
BrandeIs Pompeian Room.

Oh, the little white hen
With little black foot
Laid a little egg on a mulberry root
The best little hen that We had on the
farm
And another little song
Won't do us any harm
Repeat, ad lnfinituml.
II was lust that brand or levity, hilar-
ity, not to say nonsense, that marked
the fourth annual heefsteak dinner and
vaudeville Of the Omaha Ad club held
last night in the Pompeian room OF the
Brandeis store.
Not a frowning face. disgruntled dis
position nor a serious thought was there
and even the candidates for commissioner
entered into the spirit Of the evening
with a minutes talk each, In which none
was allowed to mention politics. Like
the ad men, both OF Omaha and Lincoln.
they were happy, and Just as happy as
IL each had Just collected his first years
A,0O0 salary.
And there was none there that could
have been otherwise. The six-course beef
steak dinner could not have been better
and the vaudeville was just as enjoyable.
1t was one OF those affairs where mo
body Knows How Dry 1 Am" was sung
appeaIingly without result. while at the
same time each man was satisfied and
enjoyed his psychic jag"
Magician and BurIcsquers.
In the vaudeville Don Carl Hermann.
son Of Hermann the Great. was the
headliner with battling array OF
sleight-of-hand and optical illusions. Ha
also gave some clever approximations
The applause he received. however, was
not greater than that Of Lily Clay's Col
lossaI Gayety company. an aggregation
Of Ad club men.
This burlesque troupe Offered the most
Iaughable entertainment Of the evening
and only one got the hook. Sidney Ranger
in black face. gave Joke that seemed
a trifIe old, something about why did the
chicken cross the road, and he was forth
with hooked from the stage and carted
away in a wheelbarrow. 1t later was
whispered about that this part had been
practIced for several weeks.
The burlesque troupe was composed Of
Penn Fodrea, DR.. z. d. Clark, John Ho-
gan, Harold Thompson, Sidney Ranger.
Robert Manley, Ed Thompson and E. II.
Docherty. Each one had a specially and
scored hit with II.
Ed Thompson began the vaudeville
show with a Shakespearean monolOgue
and prepared the audience for what was
to come. He got them interested IN some
thing heavy" and when the lighter
trend Of thought came on In the acts
that followed. the laugh gauge exploded.
One Of the surprises Of the vaudeville
was the strong man act put on By Little
Memo" He did some really marvellous
and freakish things. such as actually
piercing his arm through with hat
pin and driving a large spike. fun length,
into his nostriis. He allowed four men
to bend a ten-foot gas pipe over his
Jaw, holding the pipe In his teeth. His
act was cordially received.
Minstrel Song.
DR.. z T Clark. who once was with
Haverly's Ministries. gave a delightful
song. accompanying himself on the banjo.
It was the same stunt he did years ago
when on the professional stage and the
finssse Of his act was Wildly accepted
Carl GlOs was another Of the good en-