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Show Minstrel Show Is Complete Success A very fine minstrel show, one of the best ever seen by innumerable innumer-able local people, was that given Monday night in the high school auditorium by members of the Milford Volunteer Fire department, depart-ment, in cooperation with the high school, high school teachers and many others who worked enthusiastically enthusi-astically to make the affair the notable success it turned out to be. The fact that Old Man Winter decided de-cided to crack down with the coldest cold-est weather of the season just about the time the firemen got warmed up to their new roles, interfered, in-terfered, no doubt, with the attend at-tend a n c e but the negligibly small amount of unused room but gave those present more space for demonstrating their approval ; of some of the numbers. The program was divided into two sections, the first consisting of the minstrel performance with Owen W. Stoker as interlocutor and W. E. Martin and Jim Thompson Thomp-son as -inimitable end men. Others in the minstrel cast who took prominent and creditable parts included in-cluded Eddie Leech, Thorald White, Own Holt, Willis Whit-beck, Whit-beck, Ralph Thompson, Richard Hickman, Dern Osborn and James Angell. Other members of the fire department occupied places in the ensemble and Alvin H. Baker at the piano, Stan Voorhees on the saxophone and J. S. Rickerson and his fiddle did yeoman service as accompanists. The second part of the program was made up mostly of numbers by town talent with members of the minstrel cast filling in, everyone every-one appearing on the program giving creditable performances and adding immeasureably to the success of the whole. n |