East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-04-10
ELKS MINISTRIES
IS SURE ENOUGH
GLOOM DISPELLER
|PENDIlETON LODGE 2ss AGAIN
SCORES BIG WITH ME1lANGE
OF MIRrH AND MUSIC.
soloassssAr Good But HOnOrs OF
Evening FaIH TO Performers I'm
sketch and the Musical Rubes;
Stage Setting Is Exceptionally Fret-


PendIeton Elks have gone and done
il again. They put across another.
one of their locally famous minstrelsy
meIanges last night. and an audience
that packed the oregon theater to its
last seat applauded enthusiastically
the efforts of the home talent enter
tainers. Another crowded theater is
assured for the second and last show
this evening.
The Faks varied their usual pro-
gram this year by opening the show
with a tuxedo sketch with just plot
enough to introduce a number OF
catchy songs. These songs. as well
as those in the minstrel show proper.
were new. at least in Pendleton. and
they caught the fancy Of those OF
the dark side of the footlights-
solos are Good.
Miss Laura CahiIl was heard in
solo number. Art is calling" and IN
telephone duet with Brooke Dick
son. Hello MY Sweetheart Miss
Ada Decker and Arthur Fitz Gerald
also sang together in '-Dearie Girl
Walter Rose. who took the part OF
Lord Charingcross. sang a tenor solo.
"A Girl For Each Month in the
Year, and Ray Crystal and ROY
buchanan. the great IS and ID" tean1
that made the Peoples Warehouse IA
nous, put over 'Wickie Wackle
Wackie Woo" with the help of their
crimson necked wear and checker
board suits. George Phelps Is me
latest in Pendleton biackface comedi :
ans and got away with his MANDY
part in fine style. Director Lou Steel
hammer. assisted by chorus Of mon
key-maids expounded the Darwir-
ian theory in a tuneful way. These
same monkey-maids. minus their
jungle costumes and garbed as the
typical high school girls that they
are. acted as the dancing chorus in
\ several other numbers also. There
were ten of them. the Misses Vera
lTempIe. Thelma Thompson, Helen
Thompson. Madeline Burgess. View,
Cook. Margaret Phelps. Jane MurphS.
Vie crawford and Alice Finnell. Miss
Merle Best and Miss Lucia Callison
helped carry on the action of this
/ preliminary part of the program
with speaking parts
sketch Hit OF Evening.
Undoubtedly the most clever part
OF the evening entertainment was the
sketch entitled ~The High Cost OF
Living or the Price of an Egg" pre-
sented BY Mrs. Westbroske Dickson
Harold ]. Warner and Folsom Tall
man. It was an "eggs-aggerated
ltravestry on one of the daily prob
lens of the modern family. Laid In
a future time when the great Ameri-
can hen and her fruit" have become
more precious than rubies and when
the II. c. of L. has assumed such
formidable proportions that frail
cracker has become a delicacy tha'
only the wealthy can enjoy. the sketch
presented, with great gobs Of Mac
bethian tragedy, the torment and tor
ture endured by a woman who has
been cursed from infancy with a
craving for eggs. Mrs. Dickson and
Messrs. Warner and TaIlman carried
off their parts in a way that should
make them legitimate prey for a
booking agent
s.MusicaI Isnbes'' score.
One OF the hits OF the evening wa
The Musical ,Rubes'' In which Bot
IFletcher and his kids took the stage
Bob appeared first In one OF his in
iimitable rube dialogues and gradually
introduced his kids from satchels
boxes and odd corners 1hey con
cluded with all members pounlni
out merry tunes on xylophones ane
bells.
The minstrel show proper formed
the second half of the program ans
introduced Jim Estes. George Phelps
RAY Crystal, Brooke Dickson. Lee
Drake. Roy Buchanan. Bob F'ietche
and r r. Chloupesk as endmen
Frank Kincaid. Roger Kay, s.
Lynch and Walter Rose as balladist
and Give Cheshire as interlocutor
What with the blackface Jokes an
4. the songs the audience was kept wei
entertained until the patriotic final