San Francisco Call, Volume 80, Number 104, 12 September 1896 — SUCCESSFUL AMATEURS. [ARTICLE]

SUCCESSFUL AMATEURS.

A Good Performance Given by the Sons of Vermont. A successful entertainment, ending with an address by Miss Susan B. Anthony, was given last night by the Native Sons of Vermont in Odd Fellows' HalL A lar»;e and appreciative audience was in attendance.

One of the features of a Vermonter programme is generally a successful dramatic performance, and last night "The Little Sentinel" was given in a manner whic.i was fully up to the club's standard. Albert Morrison gave a clever, dashing interpretation of the captain of dragoons, his effective lisp and touching artiessness of manner arousing plenty of applause. Reginald Travers was also very good in the character part of a love-lorn rustic, Frank B. Fanning was quite at home as the elderly lady-killer. Miss Chester made a bright little sentinel, and Miss Loretta Grace was effective as Letty Hawthorn. The part of the programme which preceded the comedietta consisted of music, dances and recitations. Dellepiane'a or-

chestra played an overture pleasingly, Miss Olive Truett gave a whistling solo well. Mrs. C. T. Kaighin won applause for her recitation "The Gambler's Wife," the Clara Schumann Lady Quartet did some clever vocal work, the M;sses Pearl and Maud Noble won applause for a duo for cornet and trombone and a number of young ladies posed prettily in a series of living pictures. Mrs. Nellie Holbrook-Blinn, who introduced Miss Susan B. Anthony, alluded gracefully to that lady's fifty years' championshipof the cause of woman suffrage, and concluded by expressing the hope that California would soon take her place as the fourth star in the woman's flasr. She then introduced Miss Anthony, who delivered an earnest plea in favor of suffrage.