Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-20

| cirontcler had .hc pleasure OF meeting
the author OF the opening paragraphs.
To use his words. or tho substance of
them. he pronounced the minstrels the
supcr-ultimate OF minstrclSy. That
may not be his exact expression. but
, II comes as near To IL as anything that
wo can think of. Frankly. the writer
Smbscribcs to all that his duSky friend
had to say. If there was an Nth de-
gree to supcr-ultimatc the writer
would add that by way of making it
stronger.
You simply can't anord to miss it.
You can't AFFORD. In the years that arc
to come. 10, have your children and
your grandchildren and your grand
children's children give forth the In
, formation that you had the opportu-
nifty to attend and didn't avail your
1914 Elks' minstrels. 1t doesn't matter
that the show is being given SO that
the Elks can give Christmas baskets
TO many deserving poor: while impor-
tant. it's a mere incident. II is tho
play that counts. They are giving q
very regular minstrel performance
ing aboard the good ship Virginia. And
there are all Of those sailors tried and
true who have thought of home aud
iircSide when they were brcezing In the
face of Il nor'easter with all sails
iluttering, and not too sure OH the rud
der. What. no, lSill, It's spanking
good show.
To narratc chronologically: II all
were Herbert Powell, Robert Anthony,
Louis Phelps. Al Schrader. Jack Burns.
dith owen. yeomcn; l.. X. Dyson. Lin
i. Cherry. James NJ. Purcell. James NJ
Defenbaugh. ilrst-class seamen; George
+: Rcdford. Richard y: Cook, Julian
Lichtenstcin. Ilnller e. Bucher, Sam S.
Burch Happy Hustle Hester. John l..
Ratcliffe and Mickey Dan, roustabouts;
Charlie Vaughan. BILLY Burke, William
l.indner and Fitzhugh Shields. deck
hands. 1t was good ensemble and
tho folks OIL hand simply could not
get enough OF 1T.
Charlie Vaughan. and Billy. Burke
were the stars on the end. while FitZ-
hugh Shields was a close second. Both
Vaughan and Burke, as we'll AS Shields,
got of something new in the way of
stories, and their filings at some of our
local celebrities must have made the
chandeliers crack their sides. they
were SO funny and brought forth so
In the olo Walter kirsh, acting as
tho barker. displayed II variety. of
freaks such as have never been cXhib-
from darling, dimpled Dolly Cornell.
the latest baby on earth, to skinny,
suffering Tom Garnett. the thinnest In
Eut tho Touchdown and drag out.
tho Lis thing of the show, was the work.
OF l'itz Shields and Al Schrader both
local boys, who performed in u man
ncr TO stamp them as better than the
average act one sees In the high-class
vaudeville houses. They did an act, u
song and dance act, that literally tore
down the house. There was Il rlmblng
act that followed shields and Schradcr.
whose dancing, by the way. was of q
very high order despite the fact that
the orchestra failed to help much. but
tho names OF the young men doing
the tumblinE were left out of the pro-
gram. They were better than the av-
Cragc.
1t all closed with an afterpiece which
brought out n bride and groom and all
of the first part sailors, this time
CARRIED and billed as wenchcs and
coons. Incidentally another feature OF
the evening was missing from the pro
gram, since the names of the quartet
which sang many selections we'll could
not be asccrtaincd.
Listen to the words OF the oldest min i
strei Kocr-Sit in Tonight and sec =
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