The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-25
DOKEYS' MINISTRIES
 PROVE REAL TREAT
Performance of the Ugly Brothers" Would Do Credit
 to Real Professionals

Before an audience that filled every available seat in the Jefferson theatre last night. the "Dokeys" gave the
 opening performance of. their Ugly Brothers Minstrels."
 The programme was divided into eight parts and the performance pro- ceeded with a smoothness that would
 have done credit to a professional troupe. It opened with minstrel first part, consisting of a medley of cho- ruses and the singing of popular and
 standard songs by members of the east and the quips of fun between the end men and interlocutor The jokes
 were new and well gotten off and were well received by the audience. James E. Drake acted as interlocu-
 tor with a grace creditable to pro- fessional. Silver Threads Among the Gold" was well rendered by Charles R. Turner. while Abe Williams brought down the house with his interpreta- tion of "Nigger Blues Howell and
 Williams. Ed Norton, Paul Stephen son. Tom Akers and H. c. Vance ere ated rounds of merriment by their jokes and conundrums. Mother Ma chree," as sung by W. L. Trice was well received and a bass solo, "Nep- tune," was well sung by J. ". Holmes. Ellis Loveless' singing of Don't Bite
 the Hand That's Feeding You ac-
 companied by the chorus aroused the
 patriotic fervor of the audience The Ugly Brothers quartet, com posed of Henry Naylor, R. D. Coffman, W H. Maxim and J. " Holmes, was encored several times in appreciation of their splendid rendition of old standard ballads, particularly, My Old Kentucky Home"
 A feature of the programme was a
 uniform drill by the Dokey drill team
 of 16 members under the command of Capt. C. D. Comstock. which executed
 some difficult and beautiful maneu- vers. "A Night in Scotland" by Jimmy Stewart and Henry Campbell in the costumes of Scotch Highlanders, lent a touch of Celtic to the programme
 and the playing of several musical instruments by the versatile Charles w. Glass. won several encores Henry Vance in humorous mono logue entitled. The Prince of Peace,"
 kept the audience in a continual whirl of laughter, while Beaureguard Vim ston and his African Harp" banjo, touched the humor of those present. | There were some exceptionally good voices in the cast including c. R. 1 Turner, W. L. Trice, J. w Holmes | Tom Akers, R. D. Coffman and Ellis | Loveless and several real artists made
 the performance considerably above 1 the ordinary amateur entertainment A blackface comedy and the patriotic
 song, America" concluded a well-bal- l anced performance
 | The chorus consisted of w. D. Stead.
 Frank F. Butler, H. A. Mulligan. IT.
 H. Norton, Beauregard Winston Sam | Russell, A. c. Mccall. Walter Hickey
 Matthew Henderson, Oliver Naylor T
 A. Hanes, with Frank Butler, Jr., as
 mascot The costumes were fresh | looking and made good appearance The performance will be repeated
 tonight when another large crowd is
 anticipated, judging by the advance 1 sale of seats.
 Yesterday afternoon the Dokeys held l their minstrel parade, which formed
 in front of the Fraternal hall and tra- i versed the. principal streets of the 1 city, headed by Judge Charles H.
 Mandy, who acted as marshal, on a
 large white horse. There were a num- Der of attractive floats and two bands | anu ouc ol tue features or the parade was the presence of a large United States flag, which has recently been
 given to the city by I.oveman Joseph
 and Loeb. and which was carried by 1 20 Dokeys
 The executive comittee of the Dokeys consists of David J. Davis. | chairman; Dr. F. M James, w. T.
 Parker, w. P. Bedding and H. w. Thweatt
 The executive committee of the | ugly Brothers Minstrel is compose ed Of James B Drake. chairman: Ed. Nor.
 ton secretary; w. T. Parker, treas urer; Mrs. R. D Coffman. costumer:
 Dr. w. A. Norton. property man. A.
 C. Montgomery. traffic manager: Hen
 ry c. Vance, publicity man: R. D. Golf
 man. musical director: Tom Akers. stage director.
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