The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-17
AUDIENCE ENJOYS
MOUNT ANTHONY
MINSTRELS
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Black Face Entertainment Fills
Opera House
EXCELLENT MUSICAL FEAT URES
Bones and Tambos Made Big Hit of
Evenine-Many Encores for
OIio Numbers.
EXCELLENT MUSICAL FEAT URES

From the moment that Prof Frank
Hurley raised his baton for the over
ture. until three hours later Dean
Martin in the guise of a Bennington
postmaster had read the last local hit
from a mail-sack of postcards, an
audience which packed the opera
house to the S, r. o. signs, enjoyed
the minstrel entertainment provided
by Mt Anthony Lodge of Masons,
last evening. The motto OF the show
was; when You See q Head, Hit
IT." and the verbal batting average
in craniums black-listed Ty Cobb and
Honus Wagner to the class of bean
baggers and pill-rollers Incidentally
some exceptionally good music was
interspersed, and the snappy manner
in which the whole program was rem
dered raised it from the class of the
average amateur performance into
production OF notable merit.
The house was filled at S15 and
the entertainment was prompt in
starting. The curtain arose on 80
men in two semi-circles, chosen pos
sibIy for their exceptional good looks,
with the imposing DR.. F. S. Braley in
the seat of honor as interlocutor,
and the fun started when Phil
Endress led on the bones and tam
boes with pantomine supposed to be
a dance, but more accurately describ-
cd as creditable attempt on the part
OF eight men in blachface to climb a
fight of invisible stairs with music
as an excuse.
Mr.. Endress. who missed his cali
ing in the cigar business, broke the
ice and let the water run into the
rear Of the postoffice, followed by
good story which explained why the
authorities were reconstructing the
walk in that locality for exactly that
reason. The head of the Board of
Health was the second skull which
got the shillalah, which necessitated
a sentimental ballad by Joseph L.
Pellerin, so we'll rendered that Mr..
Pellerin was encored twice.
j. j. Whitney, Jr. next executed a
negro song and clog which likewise
brought an encore. followed by Roy
Clum in his unimitable yoddle song,
"Silvery Moon" II, Harry Sharpe
had to break into Mr.. Clum's fourth
round of applause with some secrets
of the conviviality enjoyed on the
recent Board of Trade trip TO Bratte-
boro but someone in the audience,
fearing he might 20 too far threw
four-pound cabbage at his rash inten-
tions which so frustrated Mr. Sharpe
that he went behind the scenes i'm.
mediately and placed it in his over
coat pocket in order to forestall any
possibility that Il. b. Patterson might
hurl it back into the audience and
thus break up the show
Ralph w. Sherwin at once stepped
in the breach and thwarted amy fur
ther fusillade of vegetables by a
Charles Chaplin dance with aggrava.
tions by the orchestra, which neces.
STATED Interlocutor Braley calling on
Claiming Fletcher for baritone solo
to restore the equilibrium of the en-
tertainment
f. b. Patterson made the hit of the
evening with a conciliatory rem-
niscence of a marital episode in
which he was recently interested and
his famous coon song Going to Jer-
usalem," delivered in a most alarm
ing and sonorous voice. During the
refrain, taken up by the chorus, Mr..
Patterson got exceptionally hilarious
and performed an original dance,
somewhat of a cross between a Sioux
Indian Sun-Rite and a dignified gen.
tleman walking on hot bricks in his
stocking-feet
Herbert Small's bass solo, King of
the Vikings" won him two rounds of
applause followed by aspersions on
William H. Wills ten cylinder auto
mobile by w j. Lonergan. a. R.
Rickert and NJ. R. Nichols also con
tributed inspeakable insinuations on
local celebrities which prompted Mr..
Endress to break forth in song. TAX
ing as his the subject of his medita-
tions his brothers Ford automobile,
and demonstrating that Ford car
can run on anything from Cuticura
soap to it's own reputation.
During the finale someone behind
the scenes allowed j. B. Harmon to
break loose in costume tied to an
eight.nch dog, resembling a weiner-
wurst sausage.-the dog, not Mr.
Harmon. nterlocutor Braley tried to