The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
CRESCENT ATHLETES
REAL ACTORS ALSO
Club Gives Minstrel Show and
Suffragette Skit in
Brooklyn.
EXHIBIT CHIC FIGGERS
Sextet and Chorus kickers Ele-
gantly Hipless Before
the FOOtlights.
CHIC FIGGERS

II IL only jus, to Miss Lillian Lorraine
to say that when Bert Herbert NJ
Barrett stepped out to the Brooklyn
Academy of Music footlights yesterday
afternoon Mt the Crescent Athletic Clubs
minstrel show to MARBLE This Is the
Life" one. in comparing Miss Lorraine's
beauty with Berts. is forced to admit
that Miss Lillian wins even when Bert Is
all covered UP with burnt cork.
But there's more to Rert's voice-oh,
much And again comparing stage
beauties. it's safe to say that when
Barclay Durham made his entrance all
in one complete clump as LilIidn Rustic
in the suffragette afterpiece called THE
Mayor OF hay Ridge" Barclay Durham
Immediately gave the impression that he
Is far and away ahead OF Mrs. Moore OF
Pittsburg when II comes to bulk OF
physique.
Barclay wore 40 straight front. He
was all dolled up. however. in a black pic
ture hat, both chins and love of
billowy gown in that new shade Of
Gowanus blue.
But when II came to chic hggers Freddy
Dalsell Or OF oourse) as Irene Tasscl,
direct from Tassel House Jimmy Caya-
Biselow I'd as the ravishing Miss Joan
Seenycr, direct from the Persian Garden.
and all the other high kicking huzzies in
the dancing sextet--all us girls in this
scene had Woolworth figures that were
elegantly hipless.
All the Family There.
When the curtain went up for the
matinee performance--the Crescents did
It all over again In the evening--the
orchestra Moor was paved with the sisters
and the cousins and the aunts OF the
company all trying TO peer through the
burnt cork In order to pick out the faces
30 familiar around home at meal times
And at the afternoon show two bal
comics were loaded down with ecstatic
hysteria as almost 1000 little boys and
girls from the Baptist. Brooklyn Hebrew
and other orphanages and the Home for
Friendless Girls. guests OF the club all.
squirmed IN happy expectancy.
You may take II on the word of "A
visiting fireman that the little folk aloft
and the big and little folk in orchestra
chairs saw rattling good minstrel show
the instant the Crescents got their stride.
which was Immediately Interlocutor BIZ
McCahill civilian j.. he signs his checks
around the clubhouse) held down the
centre Of the universe all dressed up like
q broken arm-white broadcloth john
phillpsousa coatinGs and vestings and
paintings and things and stun to match,
And Bill wore IA a boutonniere what
might have been a slice of pimento or
may have been Just "a red crescent.
There were more than half hundred
blackfaced nightingales cuddled up around
Bill or rising In riers behind him. and
they all were seated In a Jungle that
| showed the hand of n stage landscape
gardener. The real radiance came not
from the many lights strung about so
much as from the clothes OF Tambos Bert
Barrett and George Gartlan and Bones
Oakley Wood and Charley Lediard.
Some Costumes Too.
Bones and tambos wore those walking
suits for afternoon wear so popular along
JOralemon street--scarlet sati, coats,
waistcoats and trousers. red striped coll
lars and shirts, white silk lapels and those
white spats patterned after the first white
spats introduced into this country by
Richard Harding Davis.
Then there was q row Of barber shop
chord boys hsrnssesd up IN white dannels