The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-28
A M u S E M ENTS

AL. G. Fields Minstrels, which ap
pear at the Auditorium tonight. have
made tremendous hit in all the large
cities of the South where the trour
has appeared this season. The Nash
vile Tennessean and American has a
long and most complimentary criti
cism of the show, of which the follow.
ing is a part:
Shows may come and shows may
go, but AL. G. Fields minstrels 20 on
year in and year out, making the
world laugh and thrill and applaud.
Autumn time without the Fields min.
strels would be as strange and I'M.
natural as autumn time without mul.
ticolored leaves and golden pumpkins
and fodder-shocks. The amusement.
loving people Of Nashville, like the
amusement-loving people of a hundred
other cities in the good old U. s. A.,
would feel as If something were wrong
with the calendar IL there did not ap-
pear upon it two days of Al G. Field
and his merry minstrel men, with their
songs and bunny business-and Bert
Swor.
The show this year is the very latest
word in minstreldom. AL G. Field has
put forth his greatest effort this year
and the result is a combination of
splendor and magnificence and comedy
and music which has never been ex-
celled in the world of such attractions
and probably never will be, even by
Mr.. Field himself. In every depart
ment of the show, such marked i'm
provement over his splendid offering
OF last year has been made as to make
1t really minstrel show de luxe.
The first part was a series of pleasant
surprises, with scenes and numbers fol-
lowing rapidly one after another, each
one bigger and finer than the other.
The opening scene was colonial ban
quet with guests and servants present
the wine glasses of the guests being
turned into silver bells after a drinking
song, ringing our tuneful accompani-
ment to the vocal numbers. The intro
duction of the strangers at the ban
quet was the appearance of Bert Swor,
Joe Coffman and AL G. Field himself
the trio receiving prolonged applause
Fields sweet singers seemed to be
better than ever this year and their
repertoire included several melodies
of note. Richard Wilson, the noted
yodler, again made his appearance and
charmed the big audience with several
numbers. Birch Logans Mother of
Mine and other selections were among
the most popular songs of the evening
Among the ragtime melodies which
made the house sway were You Have
to Rag It by Jack Kennedy, 'Mooch-
ing Along by Joe Coffman, All Aboard
for Dixie by West Avery, and every
thing that Bret Swor sang. Jack Rich
ards sang song by request, and re-
ceived fine bouquet. He told Al G.
Field he didn't know who sent it, but
the pathos and sentiment he put in the
song, the song itself and the appear
ance of the flowers did not support his
statement.
THE Land of the Midnight Sun was
as beautiful as it was funny, combin-
ing some rich comedy and beautiful
scenic effects, and closing with real
bunny hug dance by a man and a pc.
lar bear. The score for this act in
cluded some fine bass singing. A cor
rect reproduction of the beauties of
the aurora borealis in wonderful light,
ing effects is given
'As usual, musical number proved
one of the big features of the olio.
Murphy and Terrill in a comedy must
cal act played on several instruments.
THE closing act was a scene at the
Panama-Pacific exposition, with. the
entire company participating. 1t was
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