OCR Text |
Show MINSTREL SHOW WAS HILARIOUS ENTERTAINMENT By Cum C. Harvey Comments heard up and down Main Street since last Saturday night indicate that those in the crowd which overflowed over-flowed the high school auditorium audi-torium to witness the minstrel show, "Burnt Cork and Melody," Mel-ody," were not disappointed. This Epsilon Sigma Alpha-sponsored Alpha-sponsored performance turned out to be one of the most highly successful programs which has been staged during the month for the benefit of the polio drive. LaRue Varley, Dick Foerster, Lcretta Cline and Sharon Varley Var-ley can be proud of the fine entertainment en-tertainment which they directed. direct-ed. With Glen Oldroyd as interlocutor in-terlocutor and Ted Christenson, Jack Radtke, Jesse Long, Gene Sions, Marvin Horton and Dick Focrster as end men, the show moved forward at a lively pace. Outstanding among the interesting inter-esting features of the program was the clever costumes. Lynn Bracken wore a pretty little blue formal for her song, "Alice Blue Gown," and created a surprising sur-prising and pleasing when as she raised the front of her skirt when she started to dance, and underneath was the torso of a Negro girl, who seemed to be dancing on Miss Bracken's black stockinged legs. Sharon Varley stole the show in her black and brilliant pink ' dare girl" costume. Her two i popular numbers were "A Good' Man Is Hard to Find," and "Change in the Weather." , Conceal ruffles on the under-' side of the Can Can costumes I and on the pantaloons added in-teto in-teto t to the Can Can number. ! Dancers in this number were I Rae Thompson, Gloria Slink-! Slink-! erd. S: !nia Kirk, LaRue Varley, I and II, Ion Banks. Each dancer wore a costume of different i color. Other specialty numbers in-' I eluded the following vocals: Jesse Long, "Without a Song" ! Jack Radtke, "St. Louis . Blues." and "A Little On the I Lonely Side." Mr. Radtke also I Hnnced lo these tunes. I Lucille Ferguson, tap and acrobatic dance. , Duet. Jack Radtke and Louise Delgardo, "Let the Rest of the W : Id Go By." Dick Foerstor, vocal and dance. "Sweet Georgia Brown" I and "Somebody Goofed." j Duet, King and LaRue Var-j Var-j ley. "They Call it Mobile." ' Finale, entire cast, "It's a I Great Country Over Here," ! 'villi Mrs. Rowley representing 'he Statue of Liberty. Aicompanisls were Margaret YTccham, Jake Schow, Patricia .Vilcc:k, Vance Fisher and Bill Kirk. |