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Show Record Audience Attends Heidt Opportunity Show The Horace Heidt show, presented pre-sented in Cedar City Tuesday night under the sponsorship of the Cedar City Kiwanis club, attracted at-tracted more than 2700 people, and the response of the huge audience indicated that the show was very well received. The general gen-eral concensus of opinion is that 1 it was one of the finest enter-1 tainment programs presented in Cedar City in a long time. There is little doubt but that the crowd was the largest ever to assemble in Cedar City for an entertain-1 ment program. A varied program of music, songs, dances and comedy skits was presented under the capable and pleasing personality, Horace Heidt, and each number was rated as the highest type possible possi-ble in its category. ;.. ,' . : V . v I r ' J i f O. Dale Blackburn, tenor, from Manti, one of the three local contest winners, walked off with first place in the contest Tuesday Tues-day night, and will go on to compete in the regular Horace Heidt show Sunday night youth opportunity program. He was named winner by the applause of the crowd at the end of the performance of the three contestants. con-testants. The local Kiwanis club accepted accept-ed a huge responsibility in sponsoring spon-soring the show, which entails a heavy financial burden, but because be-cause of the enthusiastic support of the people of Cedar City, and surrounding towns of southern Utah and Nevada, the venture proved to be highly successful. |