The Negro Minstrel Show given by the American Company, 8.V.C., at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday and Tuesday nights was a The old-fashioned first part, re-minis cent of Moore and Burgess, was rendered by several soloists, a chorus of no fewer than fifty men, the indispensable "interlocutor and six "end men" of the trad tional type. The many local al-lusians among the jokes created much amusement.
Those who contributed solo items were Messrs. Landers, Tenny, Roberts, David and Clark.
The second part of the performance consisted of detached numbers, of which probably the most. appreciated was "A Night in Hawaii", by Messrs. M. L. and Hoon, Pomeroy, Clark, Black and Swan. An amusing automobile skit by Messrs. Harris and Strass-man was provocative of much merriment, a8 was a sketch on the training of the coloured pugilist Jack Johnson, in which Messrs. Swan, Chevalier, Berry, Roberts, Eichwald, Rodger, Sullivan and Zillig took part, and which incidentally permitted Mr, Swan to display some clever gymnastic feats. Messrs. Silas and Love, the latter as trombone soloist and Mr.
Silas at the piano, contributed a smart musical sketch, and other items were given by Messrs. David, Black, Clark and Fitch.
During an interval the U. 8. Consul-General, Mr, Sammons, announced that the proceeds of the two performances were expected to result in about $3,000 being real. ized for the benefit of local chant ies.
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