FRANK LINCOLN AT THE EXCHANGE HALL.
. « i— . • ■ Ersning Post, Friday, 16tb Aug;irt The money-taker at &be . Exchange Hall last evening had anything but a sinecure, but hit face suddenly beamed/ wbeu shortly before Bo,c!ock Mr. Lo&r, the genial manager, gave him imtrucions to sell no more tickets, as even standiog room was not available. A* a matter or! fact, a large number of persons who, did: purchase tickets were unable to *et inside tbe door*, and had to postpope . ibeir visit till to-night. Mr Lincoln, knows bow to ".minister to Qie t mind' disused," and if it i« in the power o( any man " to pluck from the 1 roemoTf ' a rooted sorrow, " the American • hoi'" mourist is certainly tbe individual t*» accomplish the fear, w.hirh : Macbtth's physician admitted was bejond the skill ot leechcraft to effect. For two iu>ura li} last uight Mr Lincoln kept, bis eieeed* ."< ingly large audience iv roars of tbp ' heurtiest laughter ever heard within the* walls of any place of amusement in '(hn ;i : city. Well-known citizena, whose coonteaanees are usually ."sicklied o'er with.; . tbe pale cast of thought "unbent, and as <, , the tears almost trickled down their cheeks, they were compelled to, bold their aching sides. Tbe oiijy ". ''pro* pertios " ttte humourest employ* are a'u ' eye-glass, a piece ncz, * skuilcap, and a' white pocket handkerehiof, and with these simple accessories be produces, to* many ebaractorir as there are in, th« bi*\- ,., of a Punch and Judy nhowmaa.,. Hw^-: iinitHtion of a person concotinf,tt whiaky. . cocktail was, as a nuttar of mimic^y^one" of tbe cleverest things ever presented to i public audience, Starting witbXhcr breaking of tbe ice into the '^oWtr^ "he next proceeds with the squeezing of; a lemon, then adds the whiskey, and having drawn the cork from a soda water bottle be ponrs the latter into the. giant, ( md as he simulated the action 6f 4 iriatt - imbibing the ffferreseing poektu), , one Umost oelived tuit he sme'\t "the • mountain dew, so perfectly natural **• " jvery sound and every' morem£bt : ttf the ' irtist. Not the least happy •■ Ut Mr Lincoln's scenes wai his -dtsoriftiqQrOf /. the peop'e one meets at the eonlreßtionaL ■* V< evening parry, people who ijrc* to boi«ui « md are bored themselves. The>fiJrrat<>< >u« octogenarian who tights bis; battle*' ' >*er and o'er again was a spleridri "pie^ if character acting and- mimicry.. In » . tecojd tbe humourist frag ditfippeaTefl," md in bis place there stands «• the'Wi'n Bl md . lUppered pantaloon." ''' '"'" tt !-An^t' ' Ceziab,' 1 who suffers, from ■• whiffling,. ;ooth wb^P she apeaks was perhaps the, ; < lest of Mr Lincoln's /: erf ftiwsi ifsk>.k'u 'three minutes witn a Grand Italka: « 3pera Company •'■ wts saJßcia&U^ long . o enable him te i^vedtttONtliApriinai lonna, the ttndf, ati(!'M»S« prbftAdo. ' Whilst the artU* df oMiht*WJdi©wbit¥x-' * ijzgerates his fibarjieter*, they are every me of them type* (n persons wt most of i« have edine -acrwi .■flam'e'dmeVor, : lbe >ther, and. whilst tlreVe ii Wit aWtDirth o every intonation of the voice and in >very twinkle af tbe eye, and in each novement of tbe hand*, there is no vullantv, and not a word or action wbieh :ould possibly hurt tb« feelings of aar W Ev«o if not a w«rd <i«riif ttf
wbirte «?eoing were spoken by ih humourist, it would amply repay th< vuitor to witneis Ihe citraordinary.altcr ations the liutpaa feitaros :»re capable o beiug moaWed into.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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556FRANK LINCOLN AT THE EXCHANGE HALL. Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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