THE JUBILEE SINGERS.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 23 March 1899, Page 6

THE JUBILEE SINGERS.

Q . That the entertainment provided by the Jubilee Singers grows in popularity was proved by a comparison of last night's audience with the previous audiences. The house was filled in every part. The first part of the new programme comprised wellknown Jubilee melodies and plantation songs, each of which was sung with the gusto, quaintness, pathos, or humour lor which the company is noted. "Old Black Joe," led by Mr.. Eugene M'Adoo, and "My Old Kentucky Home," in which Miss Belle Gibbons took a solo part, were redemanded, as were also several of the concerted items. By special request the quartet of ladies again sang "The Lost Chord," the finish being especially effective, and winning a vociferous encore. A word of praise is due to Professor White for his accompaniments, which were played with sympathy and taste. The second part, which was composed of operatic and variety items, opened with a highly-diverting and eccentric medley of popular and patriotic national songs, and a merry medley followed as an encore. Mr. Jerry Mills "jerrymandered" around the stage for 15 minutes in grotesque attitudes and clever balancing, concluding with a lOffc high kick. Blumenthal's "Sunshine and Rain" was so sweetly sung by Miss M. Webb as to win an encore, " Killarney" being the response. The juggling performance of Jalvan which followed was a series of the most expert feats of balancing seen in this city, with a picturesque finale. The thirty minutes' turn of selections from " II Trovatore " and " The Bohemian Girl," which concluded the evening's entertainment, was presented in a novel form. The stage was set to represent the gipsy camp, as in "The Bohemian Girl," with tripod, fire, and pot complete. The company was also dressed to suit the stage setting. Amid such surroundings, with the operatic "business" suitable to the selections, Miss Susie Anderson ("the Black Melba") sang " I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls," winning an emphatic encore ; Miss Jeannie Robinson and Madame M'Adoo were agreeably associated in the popular duet "Home to Our Mountains "; Mr. R. H. Collins sang "The Heart Bowed Down," which he had to repeat ; and, as a finale, the company, which had opened the scene with the "Gipsies' Chorus " from ".The ßohemian Girl," rendered with spirit "The Gipsies' Laughing Chorus," by Glover. The excellent programme is to be repeated to-night.