Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-20
HAMPTON entertainers
RENDER RARE CONCERT
Picked Singers and Dancers Revive
Plantation Melodies and
Indian PaStimcs.
AUDIENCE is APPRECIATIyE
Benefit Performance To Aid Mission
airy Work Among Negroes of Vir.
ginia Draws Many TO City Audi.
toriuIn-Dr. FrisseIl Speaks.

| Picked entertainers from Hampton
Institute revived before "A large crowd
at the City Auditorium last night tho
melodies Of old plantation days and
the dances and paStimcs Of the Indian
tribes that roamcd Virginia centuries
before General Samuel Chapman Arm
strong. III 1868. established. near tho
mouth of the chesapeake. an cduca-
tional asylum for the training Of two
disa dNantaced races.
The entertainment. accurately de-
scrbed as folklore concert, was
given under the auspices of the mis-
sionS committee az st. pauls Church.
for the benefit Of missionary work
among the colcred people Of Nirg iuia
The lower floor was nearly half filled
with a representative audience Of
white'. Will" the gallery held n large
crowd Of colored people.
Again and again the famous Hamp-
ton Quartet was called back 10 sins
its ballad-likc songs of the old days
The Hampton Quartet does not sing
ragtime. For this tho audience was
grateful The repertoire was rich in
the wh'msica1 songs with which tho
blacks Of the old South took their
work and their play. their everyday
joys and their religion.
DIR. FRISSt:LL TELLS
OF INSTITUTES PROGRESS
The program opened with Il series
of tribal dances and portrayal of
characteristic Indian customs, by 4 de-
tail OF students from Hampton lnstt-
tute. all descendants OF the Cherokee.
Sioux and Apache tribes. The Indians
wore the full reEalia Of their station.
and life-siZc tepce WAS rugged up to
give the performance n proper setting.
The war whoop that scnt a chill To
the heart Of the early settlers echoed
again within a Few hundred yards from
the spot wh-rc Captain John Smith
landed his craft. near tho foot OF Third
street. aui timid young women III the
audience slivcred realistically.
pr Hollis 3. friSsoll. principal "t
Hampton Institute, told briefly Of The
founding of the great school by General
Armstrong and Of its progress under
the direction Of Major Robert K Mntor.
who will. in - few days. II" iuauEu-
rated At TuSkcScc as III" successor Z"
the late pr Booker 7 Washington.
APPEALS To WHITE RACE
To AID NEGRO NEIGHBOURS
Tho sneaker paid warm tribute To
the founder "t' Tuskcecc. who. he said
owed his inspiration and high prin-
"inles in large part to the training hs
received ~ the Virginia home where
N" was horu aud reared through carly
lifc and {" tho great institution at
Hampton where he first realized tho
value Of tho industrial education Of
neut.
rr FrisselI made ~, earnest appeal
/" the white people IF Virginia aud If
the south. who, he said, as tho heirs If
al the ages, must extend hclriuc
hand to their negro nciEhhors and hclp
them in their great struggle for ccouo-
ntir Independence.
Rev. w Russell Rowic. ~ ~ who
presided. presented Major Allen Wash
'nCton. successor Ia Major Motion as
commandment Of cadets ut Hampton lie
told Of tho progress of the race under
the leadership Of educators like Booker
Washington and Major Notion who nv
teaching negroes to have confidence in
themselves and to look with pride on
'hoir race and future. opened to them
the door to success and self-rcspoc,