YOUNG WOMEN IN BLACK FACE.
Minstrel Show to Raise Funds for a
Delegate's Trip.
There was a large audience in the gymnasium of the Y. W. C. A. last night to witness the "De Creole Ladies," a production arranged by the You Will Come Again Club of the association for the purpose of accumulating money to send a representative to the Lake Geneva conference next August.
The entertainment opened with a minstrel show, in which thirty participated, the interlocutor character being in the keeping of Miss Georgia Thurman, who had her hands full because of the antics and questions of the four end "men," who were impersonated by Miss Ada Ackerman, Miss Hazel Gross, Miss Grace Curtis and Mrs. Elizabeth Harlow. All other participants were thoroughly drilled in their respective parts and there was not a dull moment from the upgoing of the initial curtain until the end.
Other features of the entertainment were negro songs, jigs and sayings, and a sketch, "Miss Pepper's Ghost." Because of the pronounced success of the event it is probable that within a short time there will be another, the proceeds of which will be used for some other of the many needs of the association.
Although it will now be possible for the Kansas City association to be represented at the Lake Geneva conference, it at this time is not known to whom the errand will fall.
