The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-03
ADJUSTMENTS
AL Field MinstreIs

night for the season of 1861 with the
perennially popular Al G. Fields min
strels. The house was filled to it's ca
pacity and several hundred people were
turned away at the box office.
During the many years of success as a
minstrel performer d manager Mr.
Field has built up a -.ge following which
never fails to greet him on each of his
visits. His annual appearances in Biz
Imingham are pleasantly anticipated and
lways enjoyed. BY keeping faith with
bis ,lic and giving his patrons a good
show, ll has amassed a fortune, but
he }7F.s the business and while he could
nav etired years ago, he still makes his
uH al tours at the head of his company
ais year the inimitable Bert Swor is
again the principal comedian. Mr.. Swor
is one of the best delineators of negro
character left on the stage, a close Sec
ond to the lamented George Evans and
quite as witty. In a sketch with Mr..
Field in the first part of the perform
ance, in a monologue and in a ludicrous
burlesque of baseball game at the close
of the performance, Mr.. Swor kept the
audience laughing heartily. His mono
logue was as usual highly diverting.
There is an elaborate opening to the
show, which does away with the stiffness
of the conventional first part" consist
ing of four scenes, and concluding with
1.-THE Land of Flowers which was fol-
minstrely by J. Walter Wilson while the
stage was being set for the elaborate and
richly colorful minstrel Cabaret" The
members of the company executed some
graceful maneuvers and after the AR
rival of the Minstrels'' the end men,
dancers and vocalists offered variety
of entertainment Jack Richards among
the singers met with great favor. while
Johnny Doves dancing and the comedy
of Joe Coffman and Eugene DeBell won
much applause The sketch by Mr.. Field
and Bert Swor, some clever dancing by
Conroy and McCarty and Opera While
You Watt ended this part Of the per-
Torrance.
christmas Eve at Home gave OPP
portunities for John Healey, one of the
Field veterans, to portray an old darby,
a characterization he has been doing for
many years and in which he is excellent.
Various and sundry adventures befell the
old man who is seeing things" following
too close application to jug, among
them the contortions of Henry Neiser,
the frog man.
Bert Swor's hilarious monologue was
followed by Theodore Murphy's saxo-
phonists, who acquitted themselves well,
particularly the leader. The concluding
burlesque was entitled Capturing Villa
The scenes are laid in Ell Paso and there
is a ball game in which the versatile
Mr. Swor does the pitching. along with
great many other surprising things
which do not, strictly speaking, apper-
tain to the pitchers art.
The Field show this season, as in the
past. is we'll mounted, has the best of
the old-fashioned negro minstrelsy with
many of the up-to-date features which
occasionally make the stage look as Il
set for real opera musical comedy
| There are some pretty effects. both in
! lighting and in costumes and scenery.
| There will be a matinee this after
noon and performance tonight.
At the Lyric
| A bill entirely pleasing is the Offer
| ing for the first half of the week at the
! we'll received by the audience. There
are several headliners on the bill.
| The opening number, Nolan and Nolan
comedy juggluers, is the best of it's kind
| seen in sometime on the local stage.
Dainty Violet Mcmillan gave away the