Show BARLOW WILSONS MINSTRELS The Burnt Cork Attraction at the Theatre Next Week The famous troupe of Barlow Wil sons Minstrels play a two nights engagement en-gagement at the Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and it is said I that a better company than this was never gotten together The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says It has all the artistic finish of the famous Hague troupe the humor and melody pf the Thatcher Primrose West and the brilliancy and dash of the Haverly But beyond all these it has George Wilson There is probably not so popular a performer on the minstrel stage in America today Nature has gifted him lavishly but in addition ad-dition to a wealth of fun and good humor he has a remarkably sweet and sympathetic sympa-thetic voice of good volume and great flexibility But thisa rare possession in itself among negro comedians not the only cause of his popularity He is a natural wit His humor is infectious To see him is to laugh lie is funny before he opens his mouth There is none of that assumed air of vapidity so disagreeable disagree-able in Thatcher nor the straining aftereffect I after-effect of Cushman in anything he does There is a friendly bid for favor in his I smile He winks and you are taken at once into his confidence The joke is of course for the other fellow and von j laugh because some one else is sold is like Yorick a mad wag butt here is much method in his3fiajnesg 1ess though cleverly uJsffiSjSefi so that none ever pj of his foolillg > Wilson is Jot the only comedian in tins company however > Barlow himself J Il Dougherty to say nothing of Hall or Billy Griffin or Eddie Marks must claim some praise at our hands Hughey Dougherty especially should not be passed by in silence Of the individual performers further than this we have not time to speak but say again that as a whole the company is not one of the best as a compromise critic put it but the best we ever remember seeing |