The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-30
Worthy Performance for
Worthy Cause Worth More
Than Admission.
SECOND PERFORMANCE
TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Crowded House Should
Greet Local Performers
Giving Time to Cause.

Firemen's minstrels Elks' minstrels,
college minstrels--all these were out
done last night by the opening per-
Torrance OF the ALL Missoula Swim
ming Pool" minstrels. Tonight the
show will be repeated.
To further community enterprise
MisEoula's best talent, brightest wits
aud prettiest girls combined efforts in
a show that received and deserved
more applause than the Missoula the
alter has heard in a long. long while.
1t was a bright, clever, tuneful, anus
ing performance, and the only thing
wrong with it was that Missoula's
whole population didn't see and hear
1t. The house was not as well filled
as 1t should have been for home
talent minstrel show in a home cause.
Tonight It's On Again.
Tonight. with the addition of Signor
I'll. Goodell Bauscher, an Italian tenor
whose voice won the enthusiastic
praise of Professor DeLoss Smith of
the State University yesterday, the
minstrel show will be repeated. The
house ought to be crowded.
Certainly it will be after the people
who attended the opening performance
have spread word of the shows ex-
cellence. Who will be able to resist
a combination including Hugh Camp
bell. the grayhaired youngster of Mis-
soula minstrels; Washington j. Nc
Cornick, Fred Angevine, DeLoss
Smith, +. Orlo Bangs. A. l.. Stone as
colored preacher, Ed Levasseur and
Miss Mollie Kearney's pretty Hoola
dancers.
How Describe Il?
Telling of q show like the Swim
ming Pool' Minstrels Is like telling of
a circus-the tale Is always short of
the truth. But for the sake of the
swimming pool, here's dive at it.
lnterlOcutOr Frederick Rufus Ange-
wine, backed by q well-trained male
chorus and four clever black face end
men, opens the show. A snappy, tune
full medley of popular songs precedes
the center mans Gentlemen, be seat
cd"
Come then songs and quips. Gil
Heyfron, Bill Ferguson, Firman Gage,
Ed Levasseur, Jasper Mccormick and
George LeVasseur carry the bones and
tambos. Members of the chorus fur
nish solo numbers.
Soloists Score Hits.
Frank Curtis ''Rolling Stones"
Hugh Calnpbell's when Found My
Way Into Your Heart" and Emerson
stones There's Egypt in Your
Dreamy Eyes" won especial applause.
: though all the numbers were well re-
ceived. And Jasper McCormick's clev-
or local parodies. introduced through
the medium Of He May Be Old, But
He's Got Young Ideas" brought the
house down in q roar of laughter.
Lets All Be Americans Now" by
the company and a military drill by a
squad from the Second Montana con-
cluded the first part of the program.
A. 1. stones Sermon.
"Breddren and Sistern, you-all hears
in dc secon' part a discourse by Dean
A. l.. stone of the university. In black
face. black wig and black frock coat
the dean preached last night upon a
text from Reservoir 1:1-2, which says
:'Water." The sermon is entitled "A
Revival of Missoula Minstrelsy OF
Twenty-Five Years Ago" 1t brings
back the old Firemens minstrels anG
covers the sins of a generation of Mis-
soulians.
Smith Wins Ovation.
An ovation was given Professor DE-
Loss Smith Of the school of music a.
the State University. He sang 1.-THE
Sword of Ferrara" by Bullard and hat
to respond to the insistent applause
with an encore.
Ed Lcvasseur. Tom Sheridan, viii.
lard Perry and Frank Phillips made ;
big hit with a happy mixture of piano
voices and ragtime. The quartet mum
bers took well and Tom Sheridan wa
called back repeatedly for more of hi
syncOpated piano playing.
He came back in the next numbe
with the Jazz band, diverting con
vention Of raggy noise, and Miss Molli
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