| Show BURNT COBK TALENT An Evening Music and Fun at the > Theatre The Des rct Minstrels Give an Excellent Entertainment Exquisite Concert Con-cert and Paralyzing Puns Parnlynt Nat Brighams home minstrels took the shine off all previous attempts in its hightoned elegance but was wanting in the horseplay that raises the galleries Ito I-to catcalls and other hilarious demonstrations de-monstrations of uproarous delight There were no breakneck dances no plantation hoedowns no clog dances no musical eccentricities no flare of trumpets and clash of symbols no guy of and lug lot tho orchestra no gymnasts with these eliminated it was natural that the audience was a trifle disappointed in not being able to laugh themselves sore and jab each other in the ribs It was not a gallery show but an exquisite concert con-cert in cork seasoned with delicious fun and a cargo of cracking good puns The first part was the strong feature of the entertainment The budget of well selected puns flowed forth without once calling for the chestnutbell FrankMal tese who is as quaint as Wilson in his eccentric attitndenizing broke the ice and boiled the water of mirth with He Didnt Split the Wood Willard Squires rich basso voice was Down Deep within with-in the Cellar and his many friends applauded ap-plauded him to the roof Pat Dunbar who proved a good all around man sang Sam Parks song Its a Freak of Human Nature with funny gesticulation and Grant Hamptons fine baritone pealed the Nightingales song Bryant sang another of Sam Parks catchy songs Yes HeDid and turned some of the verses with stinging shots at the junketers junket-ers Nat Brigham closed the first part with that pretty pathetic melody There Little Girl Dont Cry by James Whitcomb Riley which has already al-ready been praised in THE HER though it must be admitted that i is a song better adapted to the parlor than for the sooty stage the requisite tenderness tender-ness being lost in the surroundings The Neapolitan quintette in selections on the banjo and guitar composed of R J Carpenter D C Shettler W Ames F L George and Frank Clifton played adceptably and were redemanded I The hit of the evening was made by Eli ason in legerdemain and his feats were so cleverly done that the spectators were nonplussed The surprise at finding that a Salt Lake boy could duplicate some of the most intricate tricks of the world famea Hermann created 1 furore The card trick the flower trick and the canary nary bird were all so skilfully manipulated manipu-lated that the audience was delighted and gaeeted the new wizard with rounds of applause The Deseret octette composed of Messrs Ainsworth Nelson Havens Brighanij Hampton Robinson Peterson and Squires was perfect in blending and shading excelling the work of professionals profes-sionals if these old stagers can ba classed amateurs Steal Away Down on the Mississippi Floating and Swanee II River were sung with all the soft melody mel-ody peculiar to the plantation zephers I Pat Dunbars character sketch of Jim Brannigans California trip with the Salt I Lake city council was full of humorous sallies and the fireproofing digs were severe enough to be dangerous I Hugh Sprague and Steve Newman went through their drummajor exercises I twirling their sticks with the rapidity of old gun slingers The concluding number wasa musical extravaganza entitled America Discovering Discov-ering in Twenty Minutes the words and music by Sam Park The characters in this burlesque were as follows Kiloo Medldine Man F J Bryant Orlando Lovesick Spaniard Grant Hampton Columbia Thinking Part W W Bailey Pedro 1 Monk C W MIdgley Francesco the Dusky Maid Frank Maltese I As a librettist Mr Parks music while it consisted mostly of an adaptation of a I score of well known operas was ingeniously I ingen-iously arranged and some of the situations situa-tions were decidedly original and erro I tesque so much so that Columbus might I have not recognized their historical significance I sig-nificance The ship which conveyed Christopher was supplied for the occasion occas-ion by Lipman Wallerstien and is a reproduction of the original craft even to the circular shaving mirrors on the exterior ex-terior of the deck I C E Stanton was the interloctuor and filled the trying post with gay insouisance I and held the boys will together |
