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APPEARED IN BLACK FACEAMATEUR MINSTREL ENTERTAINMENT, VERY PINE INDEED.GIVEN FOR TILE BENEFIT OP HENRY PUBLIC SCHOOL LAST THURSDAY NIGHT.The Skiddoo Comimny—Twenty-three In Number—“AllStars.”Receipts of Show.Tickets sold $110 55Received from advertising program 47 75Total cash received $158 30Total amount of ex-ditures....... 10330Net cash balance... $ 55 00One of the most magnificent audiences that has ever graced our opera house greeted the Henry Skiddoo company last Thursday evening, as they appeared as Black Faced Entertainers. The personelle of the 23 company is given in the following cast of characters appearing before the footlights in the grand overture:Interlocutor—Oscar Davis.Pages—Masters Clifford Green and Roy Kern.End Men—Bones, C. A. Camp and George A. Burt. Tambourines— Thomas Endsley and Walter Miller.Rose Bud Quartet—Patrick Green, Frank Ganzer, Frank Hartley and Ben McBride.Lady Octet—Mesdames C. A. Camp, Charles Vogelsang, H. F. Andrews, W. B. Kirkpatrick, C. L. Jen-ness, George Halbleib, Misses Anna Yanochowski and Ethel Swem.Kentucky Snowball Octet—Mes-1 ____/“1 A ---M ▼ T 1 il A *« /I MAvtfnThe first number on the program was “We’ll Raise the Roof Tonight,” by the entire company.Frank Ganzer, with his heart-rending solo, entitled “I’d Rather Be on the Outside Looking In, Than on the Inside Looking Out,” met a hearty applause. Followed by that born and bred comedian, “Dice” Endsley, in his popular song, “Thursday Is My Jonah Day,” which made even the side walls of the opera house shake with laughter.. His originality, jesting as he proceeded with his song is where he made a decided hit. “Billy Bones” Camp, who cried because his mother-in-law missed the boat, sang his appropriate song of the occasion. UI Don't Like Your Family.” Yo\ may talk about the man that wore the “white socks,” but he wasn’t in it with Billy Bones with his plaid trousers and red necktie. Billy was well togged for tho occasion and held up his end of the stage and brought down the house when he sprung the postoffice joke that the office would be run “Dis-a-way.” The Rose Bud quartet next sang that beautiful melody “When the Fields Are White With Daisies.” The quartet made a handsome appearance in their beautiful white suits and red neckties, and their selection was received with an encore, and was very nice indeed. That horse-scaring, hair-raising melody, entitled “My Merry Automobile,” was sung by “Rastus Funny-bone” Burt and he escaped the hen fruit because the supply in the audience had been exhausted, so they substituted bouquets. “Dixie, I Love You,” was sung by eight of the swellest galls in Coon Town. Mesdames Bounce, Wayback, Nightingale, Crum, Funnybone, Pelton, Tongs and Snowball. They did sc well that the audience would not let them sit down until they sang to an encore. “Tambo” Miller, then gave the telephone girl a shock when he sang that sweet song “Central,
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Henry Republican
Henry, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 07, 1907
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