East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-18
SECOND PERFORMANCE
OF ELES SHOW AS BIG
A SUCCESS AS FIRST
CROWDED THEATER GREETS
"IIELIIO BILLS" IN MIN
STItEIks LAST EVENING.
LaughabIe Feature Is Staged by Bob
Fletcher and Lee Drake and -Four
OF the Fletcher Kldlcts Who Are
Forced 20 Respond 10 Many En-
corcs-SOngs Good.

There was more fun at the Ore.
gon theater last evening and there
was another full house TO enjoy II
The second performance OF the Elks
minstrels was just as big a success az
the first one and perhaps little more
so. Together the two performances
combine to add new lustre TO the
Elks as entertainers and also to swell
their charity fund some $500 or more.
Given confidence by their success
ful efforts Of Wednesday evening, the
Brother Bills" went at their task Of
manufacturing laughs with more as
surance last evening and the applause
below the footlights was ample proof
that they put their stuff over" The
hlackface comedians jokes. songs and
dances, the selection OF the soloists.
the chorus work and the olio sketch
es were received with every evidence
Of genuine delight.
Solos were sung by Geo. c. Baer, j.
r. Slmonds. George Edmond. Brooke
Dickson, willard Bond and Glen
Scott and every one was mighty pleas
ing. All were required TO respond
with an encore chorus. The end
mems numberss without exception
were splendid Jack Gibson. BIZ
Livingston and Lou steelhammer
started the laughs with their songs
and dances and the laughs develop
ed into uproarious hilarity when Lee
Drake and Bob Fletcher and the four
Fletcher kidlets put on their ABA
Daba" monkeyshlnes. The children.
garbed in monkey costumes. came on
in the chorus and their "baboon baby
glide" caught the fancy Of the audi
ence so strongly that they were fore
ed to respond TO repeated encores.
Jim Estes Chicken Rag" done
with voice and feet nicely attuned
and helped out by little Miss Marie
Fletcher in chanticleer costume.
was another scream and Estes scored
another triumph in the final sketch
with his buck and wing dancing.
The sketches OF the olio were re
markably clever. The Pendleton elec.
tion in 1000 A. d. repeated its hit OF
the evening before. Walter Rose.
George Baer, Nat Kimball. Ray Crys-
tai and Clarence Bean covering them
selves with glory as they depicted the
revised order OF the universe under
militant feminism.
"The Death OF the Gladiator" one
time favorite OF vaudeville circles. dis
covered some talent not yet signed by
professional managers. Give Chesh
ire, Don Saunders and Lou Steelham-
mer could commercialize their stunt
OF last eening.
The plantation scene made a fitting
close to program OF fun. Chou
pek's Teasing Moon" with chorus
was one OF the best numbers OF the
evening and the musical Junk" dish
ed up by the Baer- Dickson -Chloupek
Scott quartet proved about as popu-
lar as anything, so popular in fact
that the harmony dispensers exhaust
cd their repertoire. The darktown
wedding, in which Lou Johnson fea-
tured as the bride. Buck Buchanan as
the groom and Lee Drake as the par
son, was one Of tlre best ticklers OF
all.
Between halves Lou Steelhammer /
the audience with some
songs and some good jokes pulled at
the expense of the Bills down in the
audience, and the orchestra also fill
ID up gaps with selections that we're
appreciated. on the whole Messrs.
Chloupek and Steelhammer proved
hat they can produce quite as good
as professional direc-
ors and the Elks may consider them
elves fortunate. financially and 9TH
'rwise. in having these two men
among their members.