The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-04-29
u. C.. T. Minstrel
Surpass All Shows
(Cotniued from Page y

| (C0tnlueQ from rage
come back three times and ther
the audience wanted more.
The first part ended with the
finale sang by the entire chorus led
by the quartet, "I've Got the Red
White and Blues" and the curtain
went down in a storm of applause
During intermission other fine
musical numbers were given, mar
mbaphone solos by Carlyle Sar-
gent.
THE BIG SECOND PART
Hotel Hokum, farce written
! by Frank O. French, was the sec
! ond part of the big show and its
| galaxy Of fun makers, songsters,
dancers and artists of the spoken
word duplicated the success of
the monster first part. The play
is woven around the hotel propri-
! etors, their guests and a group of
pretty chorus girls, part of a
stranded show that Landlord Hi
ram Hokum has engaged to act as
mattresses. They are attracting
crowds to Hotel Hokum and
things are in rather hectic con-
dition when the curtain rises.
Frank O. French, the landlord,
has a cellar we'll stocked with
caledonia Morning Dew" and
troublesome guests are appeased
by a trip to the cellar. Hannah
Hokum, the landlady, who thinks
her husband has ceased to love
her, is impersonated by Stephen
Carpenter, and she does not seek
to hide her fondness for the clerk
of the establishment, Freddie,
played by Fred Follansby. He is
shy, retiring individual with an
impeachment in his speech relieved
only by intermittent whistling and
he lives in fear of Landlord Ho-
kun. The other members of the
hotel staff are Ambrose, the
French chef, clevelly done
by Roderick Darling, George,
the colored bell hop, Merlick
Counsel, and Pete, another bell
hop, Orrie jerks, who came in
for their share of the laughs. To
the hotel came John d. Morgan
and Henry Holland, two mag
mates, looking for their children
who have figured in an elopment
and had preceded them as man
and wife to the hotel. The part
of Morgan was taken by Roy
Calderwood and Collins Brodien
played the role Of the other pag-
nate. They left nothing to be de-
sired in their parts and each look
ed like a million dollars. Ted
Morgan, one of the clippers, was
Walter Cox, and his bride was
Mrs. Richard Levasseur. The
brother and sister of the bride, DR..
Fred o. Moore, Mrs. Thelma Con
nor, the brides chum, Miss Lillian
Richards, a group of society's IA
vorites represented by Warren
Peck, Richard Levasseur, Paul
Farnham were other guests at the
hotel.
The story hinges on the parent
age of Rita, beautiful gypsy girl,
that has been adopted by Land
lord Hokum before he acquired |
the hotel and his wife. This part |
was admirably played by Miss |
Marjorie French. Fred Gibson
as Joe Kerr, an advance |
agent and Arthur G. Sprague |
made hit as Uncle Asaph Steb |
bins who preferred the good old |
night shirt to bananas.
Built around the farce we're |!
songs and dances galore, from the /
opening chorus by the dainty !
little French maids to the |
grand finale when the drop /
was lifted revealing Advance !
Agent Joe Kerr and his show, |
the United Commercial Travellers
"A La Paree', one of the first |
song numbers was given by Rod |
ney Darling and Lila Sherburne |
with a dance by the French maids,
Vivian Bacon, Louise Humphrey, !
Dorothy Follansby, Ruth Cary, |
Katherine Brodien, Muriel Dow,
Sylvia Kicker, Dorothea Towne, |
Alice Walter, Marie Toussaint and !
Madeline Lavigne.
Mrs. Richard Leva5seur and /
Walter Cox were heard to good |
effect in Every Day and Miss |
Jennie King delighted the big au-
dicnce with her fresh, pretty voice |
in april Showers. This was dis
tinctly a children's number and |
there was no prettier part in the /
whole performance. Dressed in |
a gardeners suit of blue little |
Miss King sang the song just as a
bunch of green and yellow tulips, |
the daintiest of flowers, little Viz
GINA Writer'S, Helen Carpenter, |
Muriel Howe, Marjorie Calder
wood, Dorothy Wood, Sybil Beck !
and Margaret Countryman, t1oated |
onto the stage and bowed their
heads in sleep. They were
awakened by the April showers,
small boys in rain coats and rain
hats carrying watering pots. The
boys: Richard Lynaugh, Herbert
Oliver, Francis Donahue, Allan
Byl, Donald Cutting, Clifford
Whitney and Andrew Beck.
Rita, the gypsy girl, was sup
norted by two other gVpSieS, Mrs. !