Mr Frank Lincoln

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 41, 19 September 1889, Page 2

Mr Frank Lincoln

We do not think that in all his travels Mr Lincoln has ever had an audience which so quickly felt and appreciated his wonderful humor, as that which greeted him in the Assembly Rooms last night. After a few brief introductory words he had them in full sympathy, and the hearty bursts of laughter bore evidence to the hits he made. Every point was scored. His character delineations were to the life. The after dinner speech at Guildhall caricature of the typical Englishman ; the French comic singer ; the German musician; the Irish immigrant; the old American liar ; the mosquito ; the frog ; the indignant hen ; the amorous China man ; and a thousand other men and things we.xc pressed into his service and made the sources of no end of fun. Not to put too fine a point upon it the aiidience were deluged with fun, while the voice of the Mr Lincoln was over and over again drowned in the sounds of merriment. Feilding has never laughed so much since the first " new chum" sat on the banks of Makino's waters and sighed for the green fields and bosky dells of Old England. But to return to our lecturer. His imitation of the manufacture of the American cocktail was so natural that a sympathetic thirst seemed to strike quite a number of people who " acted accordingly" at the interval. What is most admirable in MiLincoln is the perfect good taste observed in his lecture combined with thorough good nature. In the broadest caricatures there is not the slightest tinge of malice ; it is all fun of the purest kind. The pianist, Mr C. B. Foster is an admirable performer. After the overture he was recalled and bowed his thanks. There will be a new lectu-e to-night in which Mr Lincoln will introduce a number of new "features," and we would suggest that visitors be in their seats before the overture begins, because they will find that well worth listening to, seeing that Mr Foster has few equals on his instrument.