The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-15
Glib MINSTREL
BIGGER THAN
THE THEATRE
Many People Turned from Doors
After Standing Room Had
All Been Taken
TREASURY Is GIVEN A BOOST
Singing of Spokane Men Contributed
Materially to Musical Part
of the Program

The Commercial club minstrel show
Tuesday evening from the footlights
looking out, was grand success. The
Princess Theatre was not only filled,
Il was packed from stage to door and
scores of people were turned away af-
ter every available foot of standing
room had been taken. AS the per-
formers were permitted to go thru
their stunts without molestation and
"A the large audience behaved admir-
ably thruout the show, the manage
ment is congratulating itself that the
show was not too bad from the door
looking in. Certain it is every MEM
her of the cast entered heartily into
the spirit of the thing and did the best
be could.
The musical part of the show was
materially strengthened by the sing
ing Of Raymond Metz, Of the Univer-
Gty of Washington, and Ray Horn, of
Spokane, and the club is under not a
little obligation to them and to A. c..
Hall, Of this city, who was instrument
al in bringing his friends here. All
three of these men donned their war
paint and took part in the. minstrel
part of the show, Mr.. Horn and Mr..
Hall singing solos in black face. In
the second part the three sang in trio
while Mr.. Metz solo speciality was
without doubt the. best musical num-
Der Of the evening.
President F. r. Jeffrey, as official
announcer and interlocutor wore a
dress suit just as tho he were accus-
toned to it, and kept things moving
along in truly professional style. Only
once did he lose control of himself
and his performers and that was when
two Of the end men became unruly and
made him the target for a joke that
had not been practiced at rehearsals.
Frank Bentley and Jay Long, the
two stalwart young Horse Heaven
ranchers who have been coming in
from the hills, to attend rehearsals
just for the fun of it, contributed not
little to the program. Both have
very 0leasing voices and gave good
account of themselves in their solo
parts, while Bentley was there with
the goods as an end man. In fact all
OF the soloists, in spite of an occas-
ional knee tremor, handed out their
songs in a very creditable manner
The other soloists were F. H. Krug
Everett Sherk, E. w. Trenbath and
, II. H. Davis. In the chorus were S
Il. Whitehorn, Ed. Barg, John Penn
B. E. Reser, Harold Oliver, Ray Horn
Raymond Metz, A. c. Hall, Jay Long
and H. F. Kennedy, while Trenbath
Tom Warnock, Bentley, Davis, Krue
and Sherk played end positions.
In the vaudeville part of the pro.
gram high honors went to Kit Clifford
and DR.. l.. G. Spaulding. This wa:
the first public appearance in Kenne
wick for each of these stars and the
audience was taken by surprise. No
body thought they had it in them
Clifford, as Skiphorton, the Bum Ma
glcian, performed some sleight-of
hand feats that puts him clear out O.
the amateur class. Not only was h,
clever with his hands, but the line O.
taik ne gave out during the act brand
cd him as comedian as we'll as +:
magician. :
AS Weinerwurst comedian, Do
spaulding has anything that ever ap
peared on a Kennewick stage beatel
a mile. In the Louie and Heinie dia
logue with George Rowe, he was fun
y'"lthout half trying and a scream
When he exerted himself. He was tn
big laugh of the evening.
Joe Martin, as cole Olsen, the Fun
ny swede," gave a monologue an,
song in dialect and Tom Warnock
whose stage name is "Tom Curlylox,
gave clever little curtain talk an,
oehvered a pointed prohibition lee
ture. A. r. Gardner, as "plain bum
adapted one Of Longfellow's famou