| Show PRIMROSE COMMENTS US FEELiNGLY Y YON ON PASSING Of MI MINSTRELSY i It Passing at All Believe Me and Just Watch My Smoke Next Season Drama Is Dying Out Vaudeville i Is Great but the Genuine I IBl Bl and Bones for t Primrose I BY F V FITZ GERALD This is my first and last last appearance in vaudeville believe Tao Tue and George Primrose gave such an emphatic stamp with his hb foot oot that he almost almost i iI I said forgot to keep time with the music downstairs for the preceding it t l lGeorge George Primrose it may be said i In j passing ju just t cant keep his hia fet Iet t M ll when theres music good bad or Ip In Indifferent I different in the air And what U ii I bEt bEtten ten tel he lie try This business of being a guaranteed t attraction in vaudeville he was taking off his frock coat is ls a mighty m Unto lint soft oft tiling No worry not much work I plenty planty of ot time to get around and anti see sea all your OUr friends everything fine Its great But say his hat was hung hun upside down on a hook In th thu tho little dressing in room room his collar and tie tic deposited dep itol in inthe inthe inthe the hat his hie dross s shirt on an ing hook and he was performing the delightfully s mple task of tf dancing on nn one foot while lie he unlaced the shoe hoe on the other jf you knew know just what was going to happen twice a day for fur a year to come just what shat you y were going to tomake tomake tomake make just what you were going to be you want vant to live that y year ar would you ou The trousers were off and the shoes replaced with white canvas ones one and he was donning his silk minstrel trel trous trou trousers ers era somewhat petulant because the thc mu IoU music sic had stopped When he lie started again he was smearing very black grease greasepaint greasepaint greasepaint paint on his and his feet lCt Verc ere verc twinkling while ho he rubbed on Ute the black lace face Understand me rae Im strong for vaudeville its great As an entertain entertainment ment meat to the public its second only to minstrelsy minstrels Martin Beck has done do you know that the hardest thing I ever er had to learn was to black UP UD without taking my cigar out of my mouth Martin Beck has done more for vaude vaudeville yule ville than any other living hiving man Think of the thousands of people that he en entertains entertains entertains every day da with his fine fin clean acts Keith and Proctor They cant touch him Do you know nd I want you yoli to quote me on this I would rather take Martin Becks necks word than a con contract contract contract tract with the United 1 Minstrelsy Passing Not Yet The cigar was tilting at such uch an angle that the lighted end was dangerously near his right ri ht eye In another second ond ondIt it IL was his left teft eye that was in peril pert Then the light on the end took a Hidden sudden dive while the black went on the th upper lip tip The cigar then formed the thi th radius of a circle centered on the white whits h teeth of the thc minstrel l nan man while the black bla k filled tilted in the wrinkles of ot the gIna goodna face Minstrelsy passing Well Welt 1 should think not noL The plaid trousers rs were going on over the tire silk ilk ones Why the biggest minstrel show ghow that ever was wat on In Inthe the road of course I am referring to Cohan Harris minstrels is now on cn the eastern circuit There Ther Is nothing that can take the of minstrelsy y Of course we all like vaudeville But nut the brass band the thc street the bones bone and the tarn tambos bos for or mine Ask me if minstrelsy Is passing and Ill Vu show you the kid In the back yard ard rat rattling tUng the polished beef bones The music from the tire stage was of ot the act preceding that of sf Prim Primrose Primrose rose and his feet refused to b be dignified fied fled Several times they same danger dangerously dangerously dangerously near carrying him round the dressing room in a cakewalk Minstrelsy is the parent varent of au dc yule ville We had the minstrel show in the early days and the variety shw snow We re know what was If 11 a aman aman aman man said sad lets go to polite vo evee we would have sent him to the th insane asylum And of course we had the tragedies and something lighter say Bay Fanchon the Cricket but we certainly never had The Song and the th Dance The song sons and the dance were wera in minstrelsy The song the man ma n thing but the dance no the dance leads well anyway the song and the dance or the dance and the song are what the people want These Those were the original elements of a minstrel chow h Thin came the that was the graduate of the variety show And from the olio ohio you know the Juggling Johnsons and that came me But minstrelsy is s not passing The drama is dying out I mean the blood and thunder melodrama and you OU know the problem play and such When the young oung are always old ani an the old lId lIdI I are never young when circuses go out of business and ais i playing then and then show fall fail to draw and taU fall to t George Primrose was was born in London Canada quite a awhile white while igo he says How long quite a while white ago ag I 1 may maybe maybe maybe be Judged by the fact act that George Primroses dancing was featured as early as 1567 and has been bean featured Jn in minstrelsy every very year since that time George Primrose came to Salt Lake Jake fir firt t in Ti and ind has hns come and gone every year since which is as ao he hJ says say coming and going some For the first time in his career r George I I W J t t t I I fX t s J g Jf IS t f i 1 cj 1 H George Primrose Primrose has been induced to take a vacation from the brassy braY delightful of the minstrel show to nil lUl a twenty weeks engagement In vaude vaudeville ville But back to the e min mm show Next ext year ar Mr Mn Primrose will be back with Primroses Minstrels This time Mr Ir Primrose plans an inno innovation Innovation ration in minstrelsy minstrels He lIe will witt Introduce into the minstrel show young lady lad min rain minstrels minstrels Half of oC his company will witt be male mate and half female There will be bethe bethe bethe the switch from the male Interlocutor to the female interlocutor from the end men m n to the tire end women The Primrose girls will be some of the very best sing singers singers singers ers and dancers and wo we have the Prim Primrose PrImrose Primrose rose word for it will wili be up to the Prim Primrose Primrose Primrose rose standard Arrangements have Just been com corn completed completed with Mr Cort to handle the bookings for the tho th Primrose Minstrels for next neit year Plans for tho the attraction were made public last evening for the first time Ime Mr Ir Primrose will be booked only west of the Mississippi and his bookings will wilt include the tho Now New Colonial in Salt Satt Lake Hereafter I am to be bo a Pacific coast coat attraction said Mr Primrose is he lie waited in the wings for tire the audience to finish applauding the th two girls and the dog I 1 have hae a ranch just out of o Portland and there I will witt eventually make my home And the way he said eventually Iy l ft the impression that his home would be behind a minstrel band or before tire the footlights delighting de ng multitudes with wilb the inimitable Primrose terpsichorean art for forwell well for quite a while I I I |
