New Britain herald., 1916-06-07
FRIARS' FROLIC AT
 PARSONS THEATER
Funniest Show Ever Whipped To-
 gether to Spend Brief Visit


 performance at Parsons theater, Hartford, Friday, matinee. The big show, which has been heralded with a fanfare of trumpets for the past ten weeks, can only be described as a gigantic glaxy of glittering geniuses and a huge hippOdrome of histrionic harlequies.
 Friars' Abbot George M. Conan has spared neither time nor exnense in putting together this years Frolic. Irving Berlin, the rag-time lxine" has worked with MT. Conan. and the melodies he has written will again demonstrate that as a writer of svn copated tunes he is without peer. MT. Cohan, conceded to be Americas s foremost producer, has gathered for the Frolic every possible star of the theater. Every musical number has been written especially for the enter tainment. Stars have made fvine transcontinental trips so as to be able 10 rehearse with the big shows. Will liam Collier and Willie Junior secured a special dispensation despite a $1O0,O0O picture contract, iumned from Los Angeles and have been re- hearsing diligently for the past two weeks
 A wonderful Friarly spirit has pre- vailed during the long and ardnous rehearsals, and it is not an idle boast to say that should the Friars have had to pay regular salaries to the host of stars, the payroll for one week would easily reach the s11n of S1OO,OOO.
 The Friars' Minstrels will open the Frolic. A corterie of famous black face n1irth provokers has been en- listed for this portion of the enter tainment. Three sets of end men and interlocutors will be used. The opening number will bring John King and James Doyle as the bones: Eddie Garvie and Earland Dixon, as tamb0s. with Julius Tanner and Max Fig man as interlocutOrs. After ballad, by Waugh Comfort, and a song and dance by Doyle and Dixon, the second edition will be introduced.
 This section will find Andrew Mack and Frank Tinney as bones; Hap Ward and Neil O'Brien as tambos, with James J. Corbett and Nat c. Goodwin as the interlocutors
 The third edition will introduce George M. Conan and George Prim- rose as the bones; Lew Dockstader and William Collier as the tambos
 
 Collier as the interlocutors. Interspersed in this edition will be ballad by Frank Coombs and other singing and dancing numbers by George Primrose, Irving Berlin, l George M Conan and William Col 1 Her.
 1 Tn the first part Of the minstrels will be found such prominent thea 1 trical personages as Laddie Cliff, | Felix Adler, Robert Fulgora, Tommy Gray, Loney Haskell, and former ! Deputy Police Commissioner George l s. Dougherty.
 The olio will bring trio of Americas foremost cartoonists in a. 1 genuine novelty. R. L. Goldberg, 1 Pud Fisher and Bert Levy have con- 1 ceived something entirely new, and l this section of the long program promises a real surprise even to the F~riars who are famous for ingenious things theatrical.
 The first part of the F7rolic will close with George M. Cohans new cna-act minstrel sketch with music entitled ''The Bold, Brave Black and Tans." The cast will include Felix Ad1er Andrew Mack, William J. 1 phinnev, Edward Garvie, George
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 ney and Neil O'Brien.
 The Bandits who will make
 merry during this satire on the
 Mexican situation, are Tom Dingle,
 Laddie Cliff, James Doyle, Harland 1 Dixon, George M. Conan and the
 Black and Tan Seventh Regiment.
 The second half of the program will
 he opened by "The Melody Makers" "
 the music for which has been writ
 ten by Irving Berlin An aggregation
 Of renowned composers will complete
 this number, among them belng Bert
 Grant, George Botsford, George w.
 Meyers, James Monaco, Harry Car
 roll, Ernst Ball, Gus Edwards, Jean
 Schwartz and Irving Berlin. They ] will be introduced by Dave Ferguson,
 who will tell in song the musical
 numbers that have made them
 famous and brought to them for l tune in royalties
 This number will be followed by l Albert Spalding, the American violin ist with Andre Benoist, at the piano. MT. Spalding will play one of his own
 compositions, Alabama" syncQ- pated melody which stamps him as
 one of the foremost composers of the
 day. This will be the first time that sl concert artist of MT. Spalding' s prominence has consented to appear during an entertainment of this kind.
 George M. Conan and William Col Her will follow Mr. Spalding. These comedians in their own inimita ble way will attempt something new, and as they have been rehearsing behind closed doors, no one known just what their offering will consist of. The F'rolic will conclude with a 1 travesty on the now famous Friars | Dinners, a musical ensemble with