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Show KATZENJAMMER PICNIC WAS 0. K. Home Talent Disports Itself It-self With Rare Credit. Some Participants Make a Reputation. "The Katzenjammcr Picnic" at the opera house Frldav afternoon and night was a thorough success that Is, more of a success than most amateurish amateur-ish efforts sprung on tho publlo In the past. Tho appearance of home talent In productions of thls'klnd Is usually of particular interest only to tho parents pa-rents and relatives of the participants, but in this Insjanco there was suill-dent suill-dent merit In, their efforts to make the show worth while oven to the stranger. There was no effort at any sustained production requiring the unravelling un-ravelling of a complicated plot it was all "specialty," individual effort, designed de-signed to produco good, clean, fun, and In tills respect tho show had Murray & Mack beat a mile. Murray & Mack gavo us a whole lot of "horse play" and little genuine wholesome entertainment. enter-tainment. The production moved along without a hitch, the ensemble work was ever good, the drills excellent for their precision, pre-cision, the costuming and stage effects very pretty, and tho originality In Individual In-dividual effort rather remarkable. Miss Thompson, the directress, has reason to feel proud of what she accomplished, and the participants In the production may get what pleasure there is In the knowledge that they did well, furnishing furnish-ing an evening of real pleasure. The Detail. Of the show In detail it can be said that J. P. Smith Jr. as Katzenjammer sustained a German character very creditably, and as Mis. Kalz, Vincent Cardon was a "pcacharlna" with form divine and grace beyond compare. She made a splendid mother for Fritz and Hans, young worthies who certainly were not brought to this terrestrial sphere by the stork that makes other deliveries Lew Edwards and W. r. Buggc essayed the parts of the heav enly twins and wcro equal to the emergency. About them centered a great deal of the fun In the "Picnic" and they were always there will, tho goods. The Dog-gone Dance by these cherubs and our old friend Happy Hooligan, in tho person of Arthur Batcson, was a crackcrjack and the audience wore out tho trio with recalls. re-calls. This was tho "real thing," equal to anything Billy or George" Van, of minstrel fame, ever brought to Logan. Lo-gan. Bateson, as Hooligan, was ever in evidence. and by his antics helped the fun along very materially. Jennie Turncras Sis Hopkins proved another exceptionally good character. To look at her no one would suspect that she had histrionic ability, but as an imitator imi-tator of the original "Sis" sho was the real article. Asa gum-chewer she lit s any Mcndon girl beat fourteen miles and In her special struggle, "You Look Awful Good to Father," the young lady 'rose to first-class vaudeville heights. Tho audience liked this and made her do -it again, and again. Miss Turner already has the refusal of an offer from "Hrlg" Pyper 'to head a company ho expects to put on the road soon. Andrew King tried to' bo a policeman. He wore tho clothes all right but his experience was against him. Crockett 0. K. "O You little Darling," a speciality by Elaine Crockett, who assumed the character "Tabltha Primrose" was done exceptionally well and Miss Crockett had to respond. She got off somo good local hits at this time, and was appreciated throughout tho strug-pin. Inez Thaln sang "Loretta" very nicely and "Good Fellows" by Asa Bullen was good. A "Quaker" specialty by ten little youngsters was good and they, too wero brought back to do it over again. Mlnnlo Rcso hi a"sklrt danco"under colored lights pleased tho audience and she had to do'a second turn." Rula Cardon and Ruland Johnson as "Mamma's China Twins" "were "onto" and the uidlcnco showed Its appreciation. The "Wooden Shoo Dance''' by six charmlngyoung ladles was done clever-(Continued clever-(Continued on page 8.) |