Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
.ROTARIAN ACTORS
MAKE BIG HIT
All the Regular Actors at the
Majestic Were Jealous,
Honest They Were

hhe IT. les, SIT, lnoSe were MS exact
words.
The Rotarians with their ladies. and
with George w. Harris, of Washing
ton, district governor, as their special
guest. held their regular meeting in
the Public Library building. the hosts
of the evening being Phil Edelen,
Bill Bennett" Ed" Black, Clark
Diehl. Charley" Forney, Floyd Hop
kins. Charley Koch, Paul Kunkel,
Bert" Saul, Lin" Scott" George Til
lotson, Brook Trout and Charley
Wood. That's the way the program
gave their names, and as President
Art" Bacon made it up it ought to be
right
Well. in the preliminaries. as the
sporting editor would say. there ap-
peared Captain George f. Lumb in a
tirst-class bout with a speech entitled
Stars and Stripes on Foreign Soil"
in which the captain had all the better
of the argument, after which Governor
Harris mixed it up in brief address
on The Ladies'" in which the ladies
| had all the better of the argument.
! The following new members were in
troduced: Frank Is. Musser, John II.
Olmsted. Penroe c. Romberger, DIR.
j. b. Lawrence. Frank \. Mosher, |. b.
Dickinson. Owen G. Strother and John
G. Shumberger.
Then the party went TO the Majestic
! Theater, where Manager Hopkins had
seats reserved for them and where
| they witnessed the last performance.
A Rotary flag fioated from the curtain
! at the top of the stage and as soon as
the theater audience had filed out the
moving picture operator began firing
notices at the big screen in front such
as these:
/ DO not feed the actors; they may
| become vicious"
Pop Essick will appear as Villa.
I &c fH'
ANY Rotarian present having the
measles will please go into the lobby
and be locked up"
! Anybody found guilty of killing Il
Rotarian actor will be fined. This is
not the open season for this kind of
game"
Rotarian Hopkins then stepped
gracefully from the wings and in we'll
modulated tones and with few care
| fully chosen words announced that the
| biggest show in all the history of the
Majestic Theater-resplenden as is
the record of that palatial playhouse
/ with the appearance of theatrical stars
/ of the first magnitude-was about to
be pulled Off or words to that general
/ effect. The critic hopes Mr.. Hopkins
Will like this. 1t was composed es-
| pecially TO please him. Hop" is one
OF the Telegraph's big advertisers, you
| know, and Mr.. Ogelsby said: For
]
! left out
| Well. at any rate. the actors weren't
quite ready. Mr.. Hopkins said. and as
the audience wasn't particular any
way he'd Just call on Art" Bacon for
a few words, which he did. And Art -
/ he came right out. large as life, and
said 'em. And after he'd said 'em he
did little song ana dance and tried
| to run away from the spotlight (Which
| isn't at all like "Art'D, but it didn't
make any difference, because the spot
light man chased him around just as
easy as could be. Afterward Art"
said he didn't really try to get away.
And then he called for Governor Har-
ris. and Ed" Black led the pho
tographer of Presidents-yep, he's
made pictures of Teddy" and thinks
maybe he may have another chance at
! him-led the photographer of Presi-
dent, as we were saying, right up on
the stage and left him. Ed" didn't
want to leave him: said he wanted to
examine the scenery ("Ed" is an ar
tist); but Hop" said he could do a
| lightning sketch act later, so that was
ali right.
| However, about this time Mr.. Hop
kins called through the curtain: Say,
aren't you fellows about ready in
there?" and they called back they
were, so the orchestra got busy and
| the curtain was hauled up and there
was Mrs. Charles j. Wood, Jr., the
Telegraph poetess, you know. Only
you'd never have known her She said
| a piece about "Mirandys Philosophy"
and she was all logged out like col
ored washerwoman, black face and all,
and 1t was very nice and the audience
laughed and applauded and called her
back, and there wasn't anything the
matter with the sketch, only where she
made motions like rubbing clothes on
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she had had very much experience.
Then Mr.. Hopkins announced that
the next number would he by the Ro-
tary Quartet, only since it was organ
/ lied so many had Joined that the quar-
tet now numbered about ten. And sure
enough, he was right. 1t was the
biggest quartet that ever sang at the
Majestic; everybody said So The
members all wore nice evening suits of
conventional black, with white shirts
and bow ties, and they did a song
stunt about one grasshopper jumping
over another grasshopper's back, and
never sprained a collar button when
they all went off the stage playing
leapfrog, hopping right over each
other. BILLY" Roshon, Fred Rowe,
George Bratton, Charley" Mumma
art Holman Sam" Eby and Hen"
Griffin composed the quartet.
Mr.. Hopkins was awfully embar-
TdSScu because SOile OI ItOu II IN 5
minstrels had been peekin' around the
dressing rooms so long they hadn't got
BACKED up on time and you could see
he felt real bad about it the way he
talked sassy through the curtain at
"I1od," but "Hod" said it wasn't up to
him if Rotarians didn't know any bet
ter than to go trapsing around after
,actre 5ses. Pretty soon the curtain
went up with "Hod' in the middle of
the stage on a big gold throne dressed
all in white, except his face, and right
down at his feet was "Bojo." "Bojo"
was supposed to be big monkey, and
he looked like one, and ct peanuts
right out of Holds" hand; but he was
really George Martin, of Paxtang, rung
in on the "Rotes'' by "Hod." Bob"
Lyons and Shorty" Nixon were end
men and in the circle were Pop"
Musser with his Arkansas fiddle;
ANDY" Buchanan, Linn Scott and his
rooty-toot flute; Charley" Wood, the
colored parson, who delivered Dis
cord on Rotary" "Rufe" McCord.
art" Hall and "Dick" Jobe. Say, that
Jobe man must have had some of his
own yeast in his feet, he kicked up
so when he danced. Well, Pop" Mus
ser played the "Humoresque" so
beautifully some of the ladies wept
and the men cheered; "Scotty" played
a lovely solo on the flute. McCord rem
dered most touchingly "Sallie in Our
Alley" ANDY" Buchanan sang the
Rotary version of "Old Black joe"
art Hall did a classy buck and wing
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