Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — THE LIBRARY ENTERTAINMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE LIBRARY ENTERTAINMENT.

The date for the library entertainment has been fixed for Thursday, June 11th. The postponment, although very annoying and Taxations, f will result in a finished performance that will give no opening to criticism. No painstaking and no expense will be spared to make this the best and jolliest entertainment ever offered to the Rensselaer public. A PhoEjfc and snappy minstrel show, with plenty of ragtime life and song will open the entertainment Eleven of onr talented yonng men in new and artistic costumes will sit in the circle, the ends being taken by the old time favorites, Messrs. Orlan and Van Grant, who have a rich, rare and racy collection of new jokes, new songs and new dances. Messrs. Ross Benjamin, Fred Parcels, Charles Mann and Mont Burk as additional end men will render the latest songs of the day. Mr. Zern Wright will act as interlocutor. The minstrels will be followed by the production of Pansy from Parr, an original musical comedy in two acts. The scene is laid in Parr, Indiana, and the plot arises from the struggles of Miss Pansy .Pinkamink, lovely, talented and stage crazy, to appear In publio on the stage. This role will be taken by Madeline Phillips. 'The part of Squire Parsimonious .Piukamink, father of a too talented femily,ofa very retiring disposition and violently opposed to theatricals of all sorts, and especially to having members of his own femlly appear in publio, justioe of the ' peace, postmaster, pbysioian and surgeon, coroner, county commissioner, most grand and exalted canrusher to the Ancient Order of the Hookanaye Dutch, and ‘‘joint” representative from Nubbin Ridge, will be rendered by Mr. Hugh Gamble, and was written especially for him. Pansy’s small and simultaneous brothers* who a re strictly in it whenever there’s any thing doing, familiarly known as Zach and Roosh, “them twin tarriers,” will be represented by . Messrs. Orlan and Van Grant, and they put lots of ftra and misohief into the parts. Mr. Brace Hardy will appear in an entirely new and sympathetic role—that of Teddy Sullivan, a pert young blade of Parr, much given to athletics and slang. Miss Jennie Bernard, Miss Ethel Ferguson, Miss Valeria Banes and Miss Frances Eiglesbach are among the singers and Harry Eger and Herman Tuteur' will give one of their clever character songs. The part* of Pansy’s Parr friends, the picnickers, the collegians, and a company of gipsies will bring upon the stage a host of pretty girls and stunning fellows. The gipsy dancing will be a feature of great beauty.. Every effort will be made to make the audience comfortable and the management is ready to promise a royal good time. Seats are now on sale at HdfPs. 76c, 50c and 85c. *