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Show If you didn't attend the Pageant last Wednesday and Thursday night, you missed out on some of Milford's finest talents. Written by Margaret Miller and direct ed by Arlene Malchus, the Pageant celebrated the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Beaver Stake. The theme, "Milford's Treasures," captured Mil- tained on- her guitar with an excellent original song, "Love's A Funny Thing." An all girls' dance number, num-ber, directed by the Lambs, featured Mary Jane Banks, Whitney Patterson, Christine Chris-tine Jacobsen, Tara Gale, Norma Thompson, Lorraine Davis and Marilee Baldwin. These lovely young baler -inas performed a children's dance: Heidi Puffer, Chesha Florence, Denise Miller, Cindy Pearson, Michele Skougard, Kathy Ericksonj Tammy Fisher, Debbie Munk,- Elizabeth Bettridge, Christy Wilden, Angle Holm, and Lee Ann Hales. An enthusiastic group ol young ladies tapped out the "Pom Pom Parade": Angie Hardy, Jill Mayer, Sherrie Webb, Carol Ann Pierce, Buffy Hardy, Christy Long, Wendy Skougard, Cheryl Myers, My-ers, Margie Davis, Rachel Griffiths, Jennifer Barnes, Lee Ann Yardley, Kelli Puffer, Puf-fer, and Tammy James directed di-rected the girls. With tongue in cheek and quilts in hand, a Relief Society So-ciety chorus of Florence Hiatt, Arlene Malchus, Mary Albrecht, Gladys Whittaker, Jo Killam, Verna Tomsik, and Gayle Gale, sang "There is Nothing Like a Quilt". They were accom -panied by Alice Bensomen. The packed audience was in an uproar when Milford's very own Kitchen Band rendered ren-dered three fairly recognizable recogniz-able songs on their egg-beater egg-beater kazoos, funnel horns and other musical kitchen attire. The ladies (Who have been urged to appear on the Gong Show) included: includ-ed: Irene Stewart, Margaret Sears, Bobbi James, Marge Sherwood, Dorothy Terry, Billie Osborne, Rowena Winn, and Joan Davis (accompanied (ac-companied bv Maree.Me- ford's lively history in song and dance, and involved scores of local citizens in costume -designing, choreography, choreo-graphy, stage setting, and practices. Narrated by Rollo Sears and Carol Albrecht, the pageant pag-eant swing into action with a spunky cake walk by Norm and Dixie Lamb, followed by a sweet Christmas lullaby sung by Denise Miller, Cindy Cin-dy Ashley, Jennifer Barnes, Heidi Puffer, Melissa Bridge and Kelli Puffer. Bob and Beverly Wright's sentimental duet preceeded an original toe -stomping square dance composed by Mitch Fisher. It was performed per-formed by the Fishers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Myers,. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Gilllns, and Mr. and Mrs. James Hardy (with Donald Livingston and Shelley Fisher substituting the second night.) Then Kim Brox enter- cham). Melodrama at its mellow best was performed zealously zealous-ly by Zelda Coon, Larry Barnes, Margaret Miller, and adorable Junior Davis. The concluding number was a men's choir, composed com-posed of Bert Jacobsen, Bob Wright, David Berger, Blake Madsen, McCoy Williams, Jess Long, and Gary Sullivan Sulli-van and accompanied by Beth Edwards. They musically musi-cally honored Milford's past LDS missionaries during a touching slide presentation. Many thanks go to the Margaret Mar-garet Miller and Arlene Malchus, Mal-chus, plus the committee Bert Jacobsen, Marian Banks, Marilyn Jacobsen, Billie Osborne, Zelda Coon, Irene Stewart, and Gladys Whittaker), stage crew (Ru-lon (Ru-lon Brox for sound, Sam Florence for lighting, and Darrin Malchus and Wayne Lowe), the accompanists, (Beth Edwards, Alice Bensomen, Benso-men, Margie Mecham, and David and Jilene Berger), and many patient and helpful help-ful parents. The tedious hours of preparation resulted result-ed in an outstanding pageant. |