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...Coon...
...repeated to monotony. In "Autumn in the Forest," Mr. Edgell reproduces the sights he "photographed in his mind for future reference"; but, if I may pursue the figure, the retouching shows too much--nature does not willingly submit to being written up. His story, "Eb. Demming's Coon Hunt," is clever, and the dialect has greater verisimilitude than we commonly look for in such things. The defective who turns out to be more of a man than was expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot Joe." He is as much...
Most of the 23 musical numbers, including the incidental music during the farcical football pantomime, have a contagious dash of professional quality. This reaches its climax in the two coon songs, "Toss out a Rose" and "I want a Sporty Man" and in the "Ballet" of the harem...
...Haven at the Hyperion Theatre, beginning at 8.15 o'clock. All reserved seats have been taken but about 200 admission tickets at one dollar each will be on sale this evening at the theatre. The programme for the concert is as follows: PART FIRST. 1. Medley, "Rainbow Coon," Arr. Lansing Harvard Banjo Club. 2. "Brave Mother Yale," Merrill and Shepard Yale Glee Club. 3. a. "Johnny Harvard," b. "The Mulligan Musketeers," Atkinson '91 Harvard Glee Club. 4. "Hall to the Bride," Rosey Yale Banjo Club. 5. "La Lisonjera," Chaminade Harvard Mandolin Club. 6. "Neath the Elms," Carmen Yalense Yale Glee...
...languor and stupidity of the stage Englishman. His song in the second act, "Etiquette," received several encores. N. L. Tenney '03 was peculiarly fitted for his part of Father Chartreuse. At the close of the second act, he removed his cowl and appeared in white satin to sing the "coon song,"--one of the best musical numbers in the show. In John de Breeze, C.A. McCarthy '02 took a difficult part very well. He showed considerable skill in his interpretation -- more, in fact, than an amateur usually possesses. His work was notably good when he appeared with the princess; their...