New Orleans Juvenile Minstrels.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 162, 6 February 1902, Page 3

New Orleans Juvenile Minstrels.

To-morrow evening:, in the 0 lifullows'' 1 Hall, the abovn tuhnuetl company will open for one night only. The • company, which is highly tipokcm of wherever if has boon, will attract the greater audience because its me.nbora are all 'very young. .Monday’s Otago Daily Times, in an extended report of the performanco, says Petticfc'a New Crloar-3 Juvenile Minstrels opened ir the Agricultural Hall on Saturday evening to a mtmorons audience, witich, to judge by the continuous applause auc! frequent demands for encores, was thoroughly v/oil satisfied with the rnorite of tho performance. The ! lest member of the company is tnid So he only 15 years of age, -oid one of them. Joey Ross, who aonearod in a specially, *a iiitio yellow coon, v w very juvenile indeed to judge by his size and his thin t-i'hlo voice. The company beast of no locs than sis ‘end men ” iu the minstr.-'l portion of their■ entertainment, m.d thwc manipulate tho tambourine ami lonoij vm-y cleverly. There is no uttcmpl made j.c the running ilro of svitticiems which usually a cornu prmieß a minstr?] perfocaianco, but t>v» singorij go straight, to work to slngtho songs .vß.ollod to thorn, and in a good rmmv inahmoiH their vovV.’ were, for inich young perforuutvo, rory crtvlituhli'.” Tho prims of udniiosicn are very rwif) hi ib'o and a bumper houce ghonld rognU.