The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-04
Mike Etse and the Boys, Ed Woolley
and Henry Payton, Sing for
tho Camping
Party.
FRED DRESsELL DIRECTS
A Chorus Of Twenty-Five Voices Make
Sweet Music on the Night Air
Some Late Dances
Enacted.

"And every days holiday, with
skies of baby blue Thus trala-la-ed
the chorus of twentysix voices under
the skilled and able direction OF
Fred Dressed as he waved his wand
like club and the night air became
stilled while the applause echoed and
re-echoed across the hills and far
away, down at Crystal Glen. 1t was
"show night Sunday at the Zoo camp
and the boys were making merry. One
performance was not enough for the
amusement hungry audience OF fifty
or more and at least half that number
had swallowed wish bones or the part
| that goes last over the fence during
! the big chicken spread at $3.50, fully
an hour before the first curtain rose.
Such celebrities as Henry Payton
and Ed Woolley sat at the end of what
was intended to be minstrel circle
and merrily the choruses sang; the
speakers spoke and the performers
performed with bones and voice and
the furious and fast canoes reel
ed themselves off in one continu-
Gus round of joy, the minstrels being
urged to the efforts of their lives as
the installments unwound.
Never Marry Girl Named Mary"
chimed the choristers, and scarcely
had the echo died away in yon hills
and spread its sweet tones over to
Keokuk where SO many Marys marry
and make merry, before Professor
Benny Enlow started something like
do What Your Papa Tells You, etc
ETC." on the piano and out into the
open space shot Abbott Conn, the re
nowned finger. Abbott was right
last night and Highland Mary
in her day would have had te
I hop some to do the Tango the wa!
y the Zoo artist put it on.
Between the regular stunts, the ent
: men pulled some ripe and funny ones
u Eddie Woolley delighting the buncl
with some clever shaking of the bone
' while Henry Payton was perfection IT
!. self in "Old Black Joe" with accom-
panying movements of fast fadins
darkey. Both performers were round
ly applauded for their great work.
AS the stars beamed down upon tn,
shining locks of Mike Elite, the grea
and wonderful vocalist who gave Can
lso his start, Mike rose from hi
: camp chair and rising to his grea
= height, sang with tear-drawing effect
= that sweet old ballad, Tell Me NJ
Love is it Morning." Henry Loewer
stein set all feet going with lat
song hit, Gin the Good Old Summe
Time" To accompany his deep intons
tions, 'Henny' used the horn fror
7 his lately acquired buzz cart and tn
. frogs in the slough near by took u
\ the chorus.
The Minnie Tonki wriggle was e
i. Lotions number with which he favol
! ed the smiling ones. A half ripe me
! on from sandy patch near the Ell
trance to Crystal Glen, furnished tn
luscious meat around which Ed woun
himself as did the dying Cleopatra.
~ Abbott Conn had regained hi
!. breath after his startling exhibition {
4 the Tango and once more responde
with a monologue, Why the sheat
gown suits me not, or the shade
skirt has come to stay
With series of tableaux whic
were beautiful and enhancing, til
show ended and the scenery will NJ
be seen again until next Thursday e
: ening when the show will be repeate
: and some new faces will shine in IL
!. circle.