Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1920 — COMING TO ELLIS OPERA HOUSE [ARTICLE]

COMING TO ELLIS OPERA HOUSE

Big Minstrel Company Will Appear Next Tuesday Night. Dancers, singers, comiques and entertainers in a de luxe production will be presented at the Ellis opera house Tuesday, December 14, by Spaeth & Co., known as “Lasses” White All-Star Minstrels. The king, Eddie Powell, his Jesters, and the gentlemen of the court will offer their first part beautiful, “The Isle of Flowers," effervescing with hilarity and humor. The scene has been executed with the utmost skill in the costuming and lighting effects. “Moonlighjt Among the Moss,” another scene, will be one of the most gorgeous reproductions of the mossy covered swampy old Louisiana bayou, the scenery having been designed by Joseph Physioc, one of the most adept of New York scenic artists. “Lasses” White himself will be supported by the ablest and most popular black-faced comedians, notably Danny Duncan and Lee Edmonds; Eddie Powell, as the interlocutor, with Clyde Hooper, Carlos Restivo, Price Jenkins, Roscoe Humphries, Herbert Schulze, Paul Cholet, Charlie Mason, Norman Brown and Jim Pritchard, singers. Distinctly different will be the parade at high noon in that the band and gentlemen kings of Cork will be in new military costumes designed especially by the Russell Uniform company of New York City. There are forty-five people with the “Lasses” White Minstrels (all white) —count ’em in the big street parade at noon.