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Show The Tom Show. Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. blow into town last Saturday with its big band,negroes, dogs, etc., and the show drew tho largest house that any company ever got in Garland. Standing room was in groat derriand and the kids stood up all the way from "nigger heaven" to tho footlights. foot-lights. Tho show, outside of tho band, Uncle Tom, Eva, Topsy and Lawyer Marks, was a burlesque of tho good-oye stripe. In conversation con-versation with tho manager we were informed that he had tried ovory kind of a show from a minstrel to a melo-drama, but failed to find anything that pleased tho peoplo like Uncle Tom, but wo can't understand why people will pay 75c to see Uncle Tom's Cabin and pass up musical concerns, h i g h-class entertainments and refined . show. ' |