The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-06-05
CHILDREN GAVE !
A GOOD SHOW,
RED CROSS BENEFIT


Perhaps very few people realized
il but Friday and Saturday were cir
Gus days in this mans town. No
glaring posters greeted the eye and
told of the coming event before hand
and no newspaper space or hand bills
were used to acquaint the people with
the biz stunt which was to be pulled
of in the city on those days. Like
wise no steam calliope disturbed the
stiffness, peace and quiet Of the city
after the big show was. ready and
the boss canvassman had his slaves
preparatory to raising the canvas.
To tell the truth about it, but very
few people in the neighborhood knew
anything about it. Only the mo-
theirs Of the youthful actors, the ac-
tors themselves and few 'kids" who
had been told about it through the
fact that they had been looked to as
perhaps having then ecessary two
cents which it was proposed to
charge as an admission fee.
The first show was given on Fri
day afternoon with a fairly good sig
ed audience. The tent had been set
up on Ed. Belongs lawn and the
south end of the tent was open. A
number of chairs and seats made
seating capacity very nearly enough
to accommodate one-half of the aud
fence. The aisle from the rear to
the front end of the theater was far
from being in accordance with the
state fire laws, but this circus man.
agement didn't care about that, in
fact, they perhaps never heard of
such things as fire laws.
Saturday morning the show was re-
peated to a good sized audience and
at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon
special repeat was given for the bene-
fit of the girls working in the mills
and who were unable to witness eth
err of the two previous performances.
The show program, while it varied
somewhat each time, was about as
follows:
IA Dance-Louise Kimberly.
"A Recitation-Billy Upholt.
3.-"Oh Where is My Little Dog Q"
Joseph Fingleton.
4.-fDrunkards Not AlloweG"-
Charlie Chaplin (Louis Brown) and
wife, katharine Fingleton).
5.-7Long, Boy"-Louis Brown.
6.-"Where Do We Go From
Here ?"-Lester Collier.
1.-THE Milk Bottle U-boat"-
~.
8.-"Who Goes There ?y-Sentry,
louis Brown, accommodating COM
mander, Paul Kimberly, stretcher
bearers, Douglas Bedding and Les
ter Collier. Lots of shooting, blood
shed, stirring and emotional acting
here).
9.-"Ray Ring Making Sausages
Several of the actors and neigh
boris dog, which objected rather
strenuously.
10.-"A German Spy Case by an
American general (Louis Brown), an
officer (Lester Collier), two privates
(Herny Upholt, jr., and Harry Fox),
The Hated German Spy douglas
iI.@!Keep The Home Fires Burn
ing"-Louise Kimberly.
12.-"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
Katharine Fingleton.
13.-Jokes by all actors who de-
sired to get in on the stage.
While the announcer, Paul Kim
berly, had hard time keeping track
of the actors, they were finally round
ed up, after being announced and
pushed in front of the audience. The
outside rear part of the lawn and
tent acted as a dressing room and
one-half Of the audience sat or stood
out in front of the tent to watch the
performance.
1t was good, and what is still bet
ter, those little rascals planned that
the money which they would raise by
giving the show would go to the Red
Cross and as consequence the Red
Cross is about $500 better off now
than it was before the youngsters put
on the show.