"TINY DOT" MINSTRELS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 4

"TINY DOT" MINSTRELS.

There was a large audience at the Town Hall last evening to witness a performance as unique as it was meritorious. A number of very young children, under the tuition of Miss Ettie Joyce, herself quite a juvenile artiste, gave a performance of the vaudeville variety under the style of the "Tiny Dot" Minstrels. Several adult performers assisted, and taken right through the entertainment was very creditable indeed, showing that the Hlliputian performers (one of whom was only four years old) and their instructress were capable of equalling their elders in histroinic and operatic efforts. The programme was a lengthy one, but the merits of the performers sustained a keen interest to the close, encores being the rule. The programme was as follows:—Opening chorus, "The Darkies' Holiday," Tinv Dots; song", "The Bullfrog and the Coon," Ettie Joyce; 'song, "Good MorningCarrie," Olive Joyce; song and dance, "Ole Man Moon," Dolly Trudgeon; song, "Walking Home With Angeline," Ronald Crichton; song, "Scandlous Eyes," Ruby ThomDson and V. Rayner; comic hit, "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon," S. Porter; song, "Look out for the Coon in the Moon," Ivy Graham; song, "I's Waiting for You, Josie," Joe Gray; song and dance, "If the Man in the Moon were a Coon/' Mary Hatch, Flo Bridan and Ettie Joyce; song, "Two BljeEyes," Olive Joyce, Pearly Cooper and Ettie Joyce; song, "Always in the Way," Ruby Thompson; song (selected), Jock Berry; song, "Bismark Grenadiers," Ettie Joyce; song, "When the Blue Birds Nest Again Nellie Gray," R. McGregor; recitation, "The Maniac,'* Win. Heinz; song, "I am a Little School Girl," Olive Joyce; song, "Will You be Out To-Night,'" Dolly Trudgeon and Ruby Thompson ,"• song, "I Wasn't Born With a Spoon in My Mouth," "Violet Rayner; soiig (selected), Fred Andrews, song and dance, "The Boy in the Sailor Cap," Cyril Porter, Dolly Trudgeon and Ronald Crichton; song, "Two Little Orphans are We," Margie Gray and Joe Gray; song, "Nobody," Bert Stringer; song, "Captain Baby Bunt~ ing," Ivy Graham ani Margie Gray; i song, "If I Had been born a Girl/* Ettie Joyce, __ a