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Show FUN' FROLIC AND FRIVOLITY MARK VFW VAUDEVILLE V. F. V. SHOW PROVES TO BE BOTH GOOD ENTERTAINMENT ENTER-TAINMENT AND FUNNY Fun, farce and frivolity, with a nice sprinkling; of high class numbers, numb-ers, marked the presentation here ilu.rsday night of the Vaudeville Show under the auspices of the Veterans Vet-erans of Foreign Wars. From the first curtain, which contrary con-trary to all amateur show precedent actually went up right on time, to the final curtain,-the show was interesting int-eresting and drew round after round of applause from the well filled auditorium. aud-itorium. Beginning with a few snappy numbers num-bers played by a thrree piece orchestra orches-tra composed of Rulh Pool, Piano Elan Vorhees, saxophone; Al Kirk' drums; the show soon went to the stage where announcements by place-cards, place-cards, cleverly written parodies on nationally known vaudeville acts and other well known titles, told the audience aud-ience what was on. The first stage number was the "Dunking Sisters" in real life Max-ine, Max-ine, Katherine and Elaine Kirk sang "All American Girl," which was well received. I. Bumpoff, in real life Dr. C. R. Parrish, violinist followed with an excellent rendition of a high class number, accompanied at the piano by Professor Hand. "Bill and His Bunch" was the next number, an oldtime orchestra com posed of, Bill Tinder, "Rick" Rick-erson, Rick-erson, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thompson and daught-:, Thelnia. They played several popular numbers all of which were well received. While Bill and His Gang continued contin-ued to supply the music, Charles Williams stepped on doing a fast tap dance that brought applause from the audience. He was forced to respond re-spond to an encore. Mrs. Gene Pitchforth, billed for the moment as Mme. Yelski, sang in excellent voice two numbers "Little Gray Home in the West," and in encore en-core offered "Love's Old Sweet Song," both of which were enjoyed. Followed a nifty little clog dance to the time-honored ' 'Sidewalks of New Y'ork" played by Professor Hand, with Miss Margaret Moore doing do-ing the dancing. Her stage presence was that of a veteran trouper and she drew a bir hand. Paroding the famous vaudeville billing of "The Shannon Four" came "The Shanty Four," or in real life none other than J. M. Hughes, La Veil Parsons, P. E. Bcecher, Loris Hand, who rang two standard numbers, num-bers, and upon the demand of the audience for more gave another from the shores of Spain. Another paraphrase on a well-known well-known vaude act title came as"Sling-er's as"Sling-er's Fidgits," was advertised on the placards on the easel by the side of stage. What followed however was not in any way related to "Singer's Midgets," but the sad, sad story of a poverty stricken family faced with the dire calamity of having to sell the darter to pay off the mortgage, and etc. It was the much-talked about "The Villain Still Pursued Her," which was directed by LaVell Parsons, and presented by the Ag Club, became what is known in the vernacular of the "big time" as a wow. In the cast were: the poor father fa-ther with millions in the bank and four motor cars, yet faced with foreclosure fore-closure on the ol' homestead, played by Leonard Twitchell; the Proud Beauty and daughter of the poor, poor, pauper, Warren Ferguson; the bold, had villain who hated himself because someone expressed love for him, Mont Griffith; the mother with her toil-worn hands and all. Jack Ilanlon; the detective, who disguised himself so we'.l he looked into a mirror and spoke to a stranger, Wal-den Wal-den Blackburn; and ah! let us not overlook the hero, siring and manly and with all kinds of appeal for the gal of the poor, poor, popper, Bud Hutching?: the sorely overworked maid wo divided her time between - .mourning the sad plight of her em- ployers and getting the vittels ready, Alden Johnson; and above all. things the country cousin with a literary complex, gathering material for her next story and taking in a little personal per-sonal romance on the side, Jack Weston. Wes-ton. It was a sad story' for a while; The audience sat breathless for fear the villian would finally make good his threat, but like all good yarns virtue triumphed, the gal married the one she loved and the story ended ' happily with a smile coming softly j through a thin sheen of tears hon- i est it did. Ole Oleson, in real life Joy Chris-tianson, Chris-tianson, who had just returned from Salt Lake City where he had been the guest of the city in a nice little room with steel bars on the window, told of his other trials and tribulations, tribula-tions, ending with an encore number about the choping down of the well known Cherry Tree by the father of our country. The monologue was well received and the audience begged beg-ged for more. Fonda came next, a little girl who according- to her song, had lived a very sad life,portrayed by Fonda Mo-rril. Mo-rril. For an encore she sang the old time hit "Get Away Old Man, Get Away!" which brought down the house. Following Fonda came Ruben, a farmer of the corntassle period played play-ed by Mrs. Outzen. The monlogue based on the subject of laughs, was right good and filled with observations observa-tions about us poor critters of Milford Mil-ford as well as a lot of sound logic. The monologue was puntuated by bursts of laughter from the audience, and ended with a lus'y applause. At about this time just ahead of a bear which he had left several miles behind came Sno-Ball portrayed by "Rick" Rickerson. It seemed that Sno-Ball had contracted a bear someplace some-place in the fastness near here, and was trying to get away from that fastness plenty fast. The offering as all colored offerings are, was well received but "Rick" who had just got another peep at the bear as he went off stage refused to return for an encore. |