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ST. CECELIA MINSTRELSGave Thanksgiving: Performances toGood AudiencesAJf hough there was very little go log on in the city of a social nature Thanksgiving, Bath people were given their annual opportunity of attending an amateur minstrel peiformance, This time, two performances were given at the Alameda by the St. Cecelia minstrels under the management of Thomas M. Neagle.A street parade was given at noon which attrroted a great deal of attention, while a matinee performance was given in the afternoon. There were nearly 80 people In the circle,all wearing georgeous costumes. Fred A. Titoomb, who is an old time minstrel, made an excellent interlocutor and funny Jokes were sprung by the end men, who by the way, were tbe only ones to bave their faces blackened. A new overture was given wblcbgave good satisfaction, and many new songs were rendered thus making a great bit.Id the second part, tbe great feature was tbe cycle whirl of Edward Brown and bis troupe of bicycle riders. Mr. Brown is a Bath boy wbo, with tbe other members of bis troupe, bave been travelling through the West during tbe entire summer where they have met with tbe biggest kind of flattering success. Their trick Thursday was well worth tbe price of admission and the big audience in the evening sbowei its applause by tumultuous applause which could have been heard a block away. Edward Dumar pleased with bis trapeze Act, Jas. De-vine was unexcelled as usual in bis slack wire exhioition while Master Joe Gaud-reau proved a big feature as tbe wooder-fui boy viollniftt.Tbe St. Ceoelian quartet, composed of Alfred Ridley, Arthur Wilson, Ernest Heald and^Rstpb Dunbar, was obliged to respond several times to their selections which were excellent.Manager Neagle took his company to Bootbbay Harbor yesterday afternoon for a performance in the evening atPvthian hall.
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Bath Independent and Enterprise
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Nov 28, 1903
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