Charlevoix county herald., 1916-05-26
DE RUE BROS. MINSTRELS
THE BEST MINSTREL SHOW
EVER SEEN In UNION
CITY
A Clean, Up-To-Date Show
Run By Good Men.
From The Evening Times, Union
City, Ind, Thursday Apr. 9th.

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Following the policy that he estab-
lished many years ago, never to play
an attraction unless he had reasonable
assurance that 1t was first-class, Man
ager S. j. Fisher last night presented
the De Rue Bros. Minstrel Show, and
his judgment again proved correct, for
it was the best minstrel show that has
ever played the Union Grand Theatre.
Beginning with the band concert on
the street, under the personal direc-
tion OF Bobby De Rue, cornet soloist,
and artist musician, which stamped the
band as one able 10 travel on its own
merits as concert band, to the last act
of the show at the theatre at night,
there wasn't thing in the entire bill
that was cheap or second-class.
The Operative Orchestra" under
the direction of Paul Ryner, violin ar
fist and director and including w. II.
Daneaue, Gabe Elhart, Robert Dev-
ereaux, E. w. Murphy, Paul Rezousky,
Will Yago, George Espy, Wallace Nog-
gle, with the "Beau Ideals of Melody"
Cleon Coffin, Charles Leahy, Jerome
Leahy, Walter Webber, Leon Flaherty,
Van Gibson, opened the program with
a vocal and instrumental overture that
was peach and made everybody feel
good early in the game.
The bright and sparkling first part
was put on by Mack Monroe, Carl Rit-
ter, Bert Allen, William Sears, VIM.
Turner, Richard Turner, and conver.
sationalist Leo Diefendorf, in a way
that left absolutely nothing to be de-
sired and made even the oldest the
atre goers forget all about "the old
time minstrels." Everything intro
duced, including '1n the Gardens of
the Gods" "My Tango Man." Oh That
Beautiful Band" "Auntie Skinner's
Chicken Dinner" "'1 Want to be There
81 Want to Go to Tokio," "Face to
Face With the Girl of My Dreams"
alabama Jubilee" Railroad Jim,"
"The Little Grey Mother" "I'm Not
So Foolish, "Dixie," ''The Bell in the
Light House." cover the Billowy Sea-"
and closing with eccentric dancing by
Allen and Turner, met with the unani-
mious approval of the audience.
The second part introduced Billy and
Bobby, the Only De Rues, and what
they did to the disabilities of the audi
ence was plenty.
The particularly fine thing about the
whole business was that it was clean,
wholesome fun and not once did they
resort to cheap vulgarity, yet it was
spontaneous and hit the spot like the
crack of whip.
The second part opened with "Circus
Day in Dixie" which brought on Billy
and Bobby. Among the further hits
introduced were: Twentieth Century
Rag When Sunday Comes to Town,
Gloomy Gus and His Jitney Bus, Sleep
Baby Sleep, In My Old Kentucky Home
Arabia, closing with ''Fare Thee Well
My Own Mary Ann," by VIM. Sears G.
Company, in which such real 'scrap"
was staged that one well-known young
married woman became alarmed and
wanted her husband to stop it before
they came to blows.
The big bill included a third part
opened with hit by the orchestra and
introducing the Great Hennier, Happy
Bert Allen, Scare Crow Eccentric Dan
GER, Alabama ckaninnies-Introduc
ing all styles of dancing Billy De Rue
The Talkative Man, De Rue and Sears
Musical Comedians, Golden City
Quartette, and coming to a perfectly
hilarious close with the Turner Bros.
in comedy acrobatic act that rung out
last particle of laugh that was left in
the audience. The show was magnifi-
Gently staged and costumed, without an
evidence of the least shoddiness.
Altogether we will say, great are De
Rues and their show. We are all
sorry that during the seventeen years
they have been travelling they never
came our way before, and now we hope
they will keep on coming.