Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
HAVE
MINSTRELSHOW
IN CLASSIC HALL
Chiffon, Bradley, Smith, Town.
send, With Marshall as Inter-
lOcutor, Have Performance.

NAS1lNGlON, June Zl.-Dlgnlty,
| as traditional with the United States
! Senate as the name Of that august
| body itself, received severe shock
when it became known that the Clas-
| sic chambers, whose walls have heard
the forensic eloquence of the nations
| leaders since the country was born.
| is harboring a minstrel show.
And the opponents of the art Of
| Lew Docksta6er and Honey Boy"
| Evans are men who answer to roll
| call when the Vice President raps the
| body to order. The troupe gave an
| impromptu performance In the Capitol
| building a few days ago, and since
! that time the amateur talent has been
! in demand.
William Edwin Chiffon. senior Sen
| ator from West Virginia. Is the i'm.
| presario of the troupe He also plays
| ,he fiddle. His aCcompanist is Sena-
| tor Bradley, OF the dark and bloody
| ground of Kentucky. who strums the
! soft guitar, while Senator E. Durant
| Smith, Of South Carolina, MARBLES
! lays in which "old" rhymes with
! gold" and kiss" with bliss" and
Senator Townsend. of Michigan, does
a lively buck and wing to the strains
of Turkey in the Straw" rendered by
the fiddle and the guitar
Marshall Is lnterlocutor.
1t is even said that Vice President
Marshall has at times doubled as in
terlocutor and end man during the
| performance and done other things in
utter and ultimate violation of sena-
torial precedent.
Speaking Of one Of the perform
ances, Senator Chiffon said:
why, one day the bell rang for
the Senators in all their offices to at
fBn hg 70 a 1.
| Tor the underground trolley and there
upon the plat torn was gathered
noble company of the best Of us and
Senator Townsend seemed to be feel
ing so glad about something or other
that he shuTled his feet In rhythmic
cadence. and when ! patted he did the
'Juba' in such fashion as to compel
the applause Of a select but an ad-
miring contingent waiting at the sta
ton for the car
What do l play? Why. play the
fiddle, not the violin, mind you, but
the fiddle. What is my repertoire
SO-called classical muslc'7 Not a bit
Of 1t. | play no tunes that are known
to anybody nearer than so miles TO a
railroad. | play Arkansas Traveller
Turkey in the Straw, He'll Below
Memphis and other works of COM
posers who have been lost sight Of
the so-called great creations"
Make Life Worth Living.
When he was asked what sort OF a
singing voice-everybody who has
heard him knows that he can speak
some"-Senator Smith had, and
whether or not his reach was not
lreally confined to hymn lines, Sena-
tor Chiffon declined to answer re-
fusing to inCriminate himself, but he
insisted that when he and the Sena-
tor from the dark and bloody
ground" and the Senator from South
Carolina-in which State. according
to Secretary Houston. there are vet
living some men who think that
South Carolina would have whipped
in the fight so years ago II the other
Southern States had not mixed up
in the diffiCulty-and the Senator
from Michigan, where they grow cell
cry and beans. keeping perfect time
with heel and toe, got together there
was not the least doubt that life even
in Washington is worth living.
Senator Chiffon talked in an inter
esting way about his visit to the old
Stone Presbyterian Church with Vice
| President Marshall He says that the
Vice President will wear we'll" that
he is a most effective speaker a
splendid travelling companion, a CAPT
tai story teller, as natural In all his
| thinking and speaking as an honest
man can be, and, withal has very
clear apprehension of both the law
and the Gospel. When he and the
Vice President were at the celebration
in Lewisburg all the people turned
out to do the Indianan honor.
Marshall Gets Feast.
The people put the big pot in the
little one" as the homely phrase has
it, and such feasting and rejoicing
were never known before in the Kan
awha Valley, and when they got
through there were about Las bas-
ketfuls left over The V'ce President
said that he had found the cost OF
living in Washington rather moro
than his retainer seemed to justify.
He went down to his meals and or
dered little of this and a little Of
that. very little of either and not
much Of both, and when the count
was taken he found that his appe-
lite had disfgured a SO bill. or some
thing like that, and that during the
day at the Stone Church celebration
he had eaten about $171.25 worth of
raa1 food at Wa shin rvtpa0