Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 8

PAGE EIGHT FAIRBANKS, ALASKA; 28, 1931. DAILY, NEWS-MINER MINSTRELS IN SMASHING HIT; TO SHOW AGAIN JOYOUS PROGRAM PROVIDES ENTERTAINMENT AT EMPRESS LASTS FOR AND A HALF HOURS TWO In two and a half solid hours of fun making, Sit Minstrels last night demonstrated what an amateur show should be like. With an ever changing program they entertained an audience' numbering around 600 persons. To Ray Southard, in charge of the show, and Mrs. Southard, wh-3 directed the dancing: numbers, goes credit for putting on a show whose equal has not been seen for long while.

It was entertainment de luxe from the time the curtain rose at 8:25 until it finally rang down at 11 o'clock. The minstrel show proper was a sure-firE success, it featured old- time songs and gags, both those, with local implications and otherwise. In the former fun was had with a number of local celebrities and many more were squirming in their seats waiting for the axe to fall. Thomas B. Drayton made a very competent interlocutor and he fed questions to his end.

men in a manner calculated to bring the best effect. The end men were Tom Lannore, Frank Young, Rdden Davis, Bill Root, Ralph Norris and Harry. Karstens, with Tom and Bill pulling off most of the gags. In the 1 chorus were V. F.

Jacob, Jerry Norris, M. A. Tenney. Cul- lay in building the iiew courthouse. lit was a hit.

I len Witner, Sig Bredlie, James Harry Moore, William Stapleton, Avakoff and Gene Miller. Soloists were Jim Hutchison, Ben Green, William Sheriff and Oscar Bredlie. Old and -new songs were sung by 1 Roden Davis, Ralph Norris, William Sheriff, Tom Lannore and Jim. Hutchison, Tom's "Am I Right? or am I Wrong?" having to do with Alaska Railroad rates, absence of street lights in Fairbanks and de- DAILY BUS SCHEDULE Leaves for the College from the Bank Corner: 7:30 A. M.

12:15 P. M. 8:30 A. M. 2:15 P.

M. 10:15 A. M. 3:45 P. M.

4:45 P. M. SUNDAY BUS TRIPS 10:15 A. M. 12:30 P.M.

Bus returns immediately upon arrival at the College and passengers for town taken back. We deliver you from your home to the College door-steps. All those living in Fairbanks traveling to the College please register your address at once at the Standard Garage and a route will be arranged to pick you up as near your home as possible. Mr. Davis sang, "Hyars Yo' Hat, What's Yo' Hurry," Ralph Norris a parody on the -'Shade of the Old Apple Tree," William Sheriff "Girl of My Dreams" and-Jim Hutchison "Waiting for Ships That Never Come "Unconsciously" was sung by Harry Karstens.

Outstanding was the singing of "Old Black Joe," by Ben Green, who on the stage appearing aged and failing. His voice and his acting evoked tumultous applause. Billy Boot sang "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine" and Oscar Bredlie made a hit singing, "Where Is the Song of Songs For Me." Frank Young rendered "I Got Mine, I Got Mine," and the Minstrel show ended with the chorus singing 'Hyar Goes De Minstrel Band." "Uncle Jeff's Birthday" opened the Olio, or second part. It was a light and enjoyable sketch with a lot of humor. Ray Southard was Uncle Jeff and Mrs.

Southard took the part of the daughter of the plantation owner. Others in the skit were Josephine Raats, Prank Young and the juvenile dancers, Prances Woodward, Betty Hering, Josephine Raats, Marion Thompson, Kathleen Preston and Eileen Sturgell. And far from the least important were little Valerie LaBreche, Ruth Burfclin and Beth Rust, who had a fine time listening to Uncle Jeff's songs and stories. It was a Jot of fun for them and for those who watched them RELIABILITY in Air Transportation Pilots with Years of Alaskan Experience Department of Commerce Authorized Repair Shops Oldest Air Transportation Company in Alaska U. S.

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L. Hufman was uproariously funny in a monologue, "The Swedish Doughboy." In broad accent he told about his and tribulations from the time he joined the army until he landed in a hospital in France. He was called back to the stage time after time. The "Harmony Quartette," Clyde Coffins, Edward Nightengale, Jim Hutchison and Cullen Witner, were jail the name implies and it was a long time before the audience would let them leave for good. "Fairbanks Own Night Club" was the concluding number.

Ray Southard was the master of ceremonies, and a good one. 1 The curtain rose on a night club scene, with those present singing "Creole Days." From then on Mr. Southard took charge and introduced the entertainers. With a of dancing girls, Mrs. Southard sang "It Looks like Love." Gene Miller's banjo numbers were decidedly popular and he had to come back more than the usual number of encores.

William Sheriff, a newcomer to the Fairbanks stage, sang Scottish songs that would have made the show In Scot attire, The dancing girls sang the chorus. The "Black and White Trio," Jim Moore, Frank Young and Tom Lar- I more, performed wonders with I stringed instruments. A glimpse of the East came with a "Dance Oriental," danced ably by Miss Marguerite Thompson. "Every Race has a Flag but the Coon," sang Ray Southard in intro- ducing the finale. "Girls of All Nations" came on i CBy Associated Press) SANDPOINT, Idaho, Oct.

28, Mrs. Floyd May, who fired 50 shots at officers and withstood a tear gas siege before being captured, was ordered by a sanity board to be sent to the Idaho asylum at Orofino for "observation and treatment." The woman stood a posse off for several days when an PLANE RETURNS FROM FORT YUKON FLIGHT Miss A. A. Gavel arrived by airplane from Fort Yukon yesterday, traveling from there with Pilot S. E.

Bobbins of the Alaskan Airways. Miss Gavel is en route to the States. She was relieved by Miss Hazel M. Staplin, who took the plane from here yesterday. I made to arrest her for stealing a car; of cream and a rifle.

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The curtain came down to the singing of a minstrel chorus by the entire company. Don Adler played piano accompaniment throughout and played the organ before the start of the show and during the intermission. Tonight will be the last opportunity to see the minstrel show. It will be produced at the Empress this once more, starting at 8:15. Value in Abe Simson's.

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