The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-28
SOCIETY BEAUX
TO BLACK FACES
In ELK MINSTREL
Will Don ClaW-Hammers,
"Biled" Dickeys, Stove
pipe Hats For Shows.
FEB. 3 AND a ARE SETS
AS TENTATIVE DATES
John Meyers As Interlocutor and
Dempsey, Coincidence,
Are Features.

Do you want to see Angelo Demp-
sey and A. r. Zoelsman in black-face
comedy? Do you want to hear john
ny Meyers make his voice drawl as he
puts the questions of an interlocutor
Do you want to see Percy Osterloh,
Doc Rhodes, Fred Groves and w. Pal
mer Oliver, all clad in realgenuine old
fashioned claw-hammer coats, stove
pipe hats and white billed dickeys
their faces smeared with ebony grease
paint, their eyes rolling in white, lips
smeared with carmine and their hands
done up ham-fashion in white cotton
gloves, do Il song and dance special
ty?
10 see. all these things and more
too, one must go to the Elks Club
minstrel show Thursday or Friday
night, February or 4. The minstrel
show Will be given in the Park Thea
ter.
February 3 and areN the tentative
dates set for the minstrel by the mem
bers Of the lodge in charge of the en-
tertainment. 1t may be given on
Monday and Tuesday evenings of the
following week. The announcement
of definite date will be made follow
ing meeting Of the men about town
who will take part in the show, that
will be held at the club rooms next
Wednesday.
With the exceptions of few details
the arrangements for the minstrel are
being perfected to put on one of the
most attractive shows ever witnessed
and heard in the Cape.
Wednesday night the personnel of
the minstrel troupe will be fixed. Last
right it had not been definitely de-
cided whether Johnny Meyers or DR..
John D. Porterfield, Jr., will be the in
terlOcutor.
w. Palmer Oliver will wear red but
tons on his coat and sing in a bass
voice as an end man. That seems to
be pretty definitely decided upon and
he will have as companions at the
ends of the lines, Russell Dearmont
and Robert G. Mum. The fourth
man has not been selected and many
friends are urging Mr.. Dempsey or
Mr. HOclsman to join in the revelry.
The membership role in the min
strel troupe is not being limited to
members of the Elks Club. The club
is sponsor for the show-thc club has
decided to undertake that responsible
ity at any rate-but all the best talent
in town will be rounded up to take
part in the massive chorus that will
be staged.
There are to be thirty-fivc darkies,
transformed each one from a promi-
nent man-about-town
Professor Kenyon and Professor
Hans Hartman of the Normal Schoo!
will be taken into the ranks. 1t was
said that perhaps Ben Vineyard would
be allowed to sit in the audience and
giggle.
Others who will become an ace of
spades for the evening are Leon Ha-
man, Leon Balm, Leslie Patton, Paul
Finney, Sam Sherman, DR.. J. C.
Vorbeck and c. W. Boutin, better
known as Cupid Boutin."
The complete list of prospective
minstrel singers was not made public
last night. This will be divulged by
degrees it is said.
The show is being arranged by the
Entertainment Committee of the Elks
lodge, composed of Russell Dearmont,
c. w. Boutin, Leon Balm, DR.. F. D.
Rhodes, Percy Osterloh and William
Shivelbine.
Shivelbine's orchestra will attempt
to keep time with the singing that
the improvised "culled folks" will do.
A professional air will be injected
| into the show to make it get across in
good shape by Mr.. William r. Pattie
of Frankfort, Ky, who has been re-
tanned by the lodge to direct the
troupe and furnish all the costumes
and stage settings. He will arrive in
the Cape Tuesday and commence
working up local color.
J. Henry Caruthers, prosecuting at
torney, yesterday was in Jackson on a