The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-15
B. H. S. Minstrel
Scores Before
damned House

Presenting their second annual min
strel show, the talented MINISTRIES Of
the Bridgeport High School scored the
biggest kind Of success, last evening,
at Warner hail. The performance
will be presented again this evening.
The boys kept the crowded audience
either laughing uproariously, or wait
for a hearty side shake, which was
always sure to arrive, without fail
in a few seconds. There were gOot
humored knocks and daffydills, it
seemed, for everybody in school or
out.
The idea of the students presenting
minstrel shows is comparatively new.
Last year it was adopted as a means
Of raising funds for the baseball sea-
son. And such a hit was made at
that time that the same plan was
readily followed out this year, only 1t
was realized that in order to accom-
modate the large numbers that desir-
ed to see the Ministries in action,
there would have to be two perform
ances instead of one. The result was
the first performance of last night and
the giving Of another this evening.
At the show the B. H. S. Mandolin
Club rendered several well played Sc
lections. In the sketch. ga Telegram
from Dad, the audience was kept
laughing at the funny antics of Stu
art Foster as the chief Of police, and
of Ezra Dimick, who successfully car
ried off feminine role. Joseph How
ard featured throughout~the evening.
The end men with Lewis Calhoun as
interlocutor, kept the stage buzzlng
with their rapid fire of jokes and
speeches.
But2the real hits of the evening were
the young ladies of the school as Ken
lucky Bellies. Time and again the
missminstrels were applauded and en-
cored, Miss Ruth Topping especially
scoring. The audience never tired of
hearing Miss Rena Hubbel1 and the
chorus sing.
After the performance. floral offer
ings were presented to many OF the
young ladies and vegetable bouquets
| to some of the boys. 1t was a great
The whole performance was character
lied by the lack Of rowdyism of any
sort.
The complete program for the ev-
ening included many of the best
known students of the school, and was
as follows:
Overture. B. H S. Mandolin Club
| violin solo. Harry Denny, accompanied
| by Stephen P. Phelan; "a Telegram
from Dad, scene: Students room al
stratford College; characters. Pete
Waters, a Senior, William A. Coulter;
Terry Flynn, Senior, Stuart A. Ham
ilton; Billy Burnham, Senior, Joseph
Howard; Messenger Boy, John Corco-
| ran; Charles Augustus Livermore
Chief of Police, Stuart Foster; Mrs
James E. Rush, Ezra Dimick; James
| E. Rush, football coach, Lewis Cal
| houn. The Boy Wonder, Harold Lal-
ley, "Just Plays with the Piano; Sc
lection, B. H. S. Mandolin Club.
Ye Ole Time Minstrel-Lewis Cal
houn; Premier, Ezra Dimmick; tam
hos, Henry Erwin. Donald Root; bones
Joseph Howard, John Corcoran. Plan
tation chorus, Meath the Mississippi
Moon, Miss Rena Hubbell, assisted
| bv entire company. Mammy's Shut
| film Dance, Henry Erwin. When Rag
time Rosie Ragged the Rosary, Joseph
| Howard Honey Man, John Corcoran
Just a Bunch of PicanninnieS, Max
! Rosenthal, Harold Lalley, Stanley
| Challenger, Edward Lonergan, Harold
| C.ernert. Thomas Corrigan, Walter
Gregory. Old Black Joe, Lewis Cal
houn. Kentucky Bellies, Ethel Dona-
van. Rena HubbeH. Edith Dillingham;,
| Isabel Baker, Alice Windsor, Emma
Ruth Mcdonald Everybody's DOM
| It, Donald Root. That Mexican
twist. Ezra Dimick By the Light of
| the Jungle Moon, Miss Rena Hubbell,
assisted by entire company.
| Chorus-Misses Donavan, Lake, Rob
erts. Baker Windsor, Hubbell, Dilling-
| ham, Mcdonald, Topping, Messrs.
Coulter, H. Lee, Lalley, Rosenthal,
Gernert, Gregory, Shannon, Murphy,
Hamilton, Devine, Weldon, Hurley,
Dargan, Lonergan, Pratt, Christy, w.
Lee. HI. Denny, Brown, Schwarz, F.
Hallen, Walsh, r. Denny, Lynch, Chal-
| 1ar,