Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — The Gymnasium Entertainment. [ARTICLE]

The Gymnasium Entertainment.

The Gymnasinm Entertainmen at the opera house Thursday evening had a large attendance and was a complete success in all respects. The music was of a high order, the piano duet by Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Warren, and a solo by Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth, all marvels of musical skill. The solo by Miss Mae Wright, to the violin accompaniment by Mr. Chapman, together with the repense to the encore “Pliny,” a coon song, was especially deserving of mention, while the solos given by Mrs. Ray Wood and Mr. Austin were well appreciated, as always.

The gymnastic features were as good in their way as the musical, and would make a right good entertainment, without any other features at all. The boys in the gymnasium have surely made wonderful progress during the comparatively short time it has been in existence. All the exercises were finely executed and reatly pleased the audience, but the most popular were the “elephant walk”* the “monkey roll” and the “pig pyramid.” There was a whole drove of the elephants, eaoh one being com posed of two boys, and they marched solemnly on the stage, and then marched and countermarched and performed tricks with a truly elephantine gravity and sagaoity. In the monkey roll the boys rolled around on the stage through and over one another with arms and legs flying, like a lot of monkeys indeed. In the pig pyramid, the boys stood one above another in a pyramid of large dimensions, and at a given signal, all let go and dropped to the floor at once.