New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
TROOP REPRESENTS ITS ANNUAL CIRCUS
Audience Of 300 Sees Trumpet
 Band Achieve Triumph

A new high mark in the history Of the annual circuses given by Boy Scout troop was reached last night when "The Good Turns of 1950' was produced in almost faultless manner before a crowd of approxi- mately 500 persons in the Center ConGr gational church chapel. The presentation, which consisted of 16 varied acts, was pronounced by those who have attended these shows each year 10 De the present the troop has yet given. The proceeds. which will be used to defray the expenses of the troop trumpet band. and be- licved to be well above s125. The production opened with parade, headed by Senior Patrol Leader William A. Baker in a gaudy uniform and fur busby. with an aide constantly spraying the furry hat with squirt gun. Behind this drum major came a five piece band and then weird collection of freaks in all manner of costumes and includ- ing the troop menagerie. which com prisod one wild west horse and an elephant Ringmaster "Pete" Kim ball then welcomed the audience. Dressed in a manner of which no Ringing ringmaster had ever dreamed. Pete was an act in him. self, and his appearances and an- nouncements throughout the show were ar unfailing source of laughter.
 Trumpet Band Triumph The troop 1 trumpet band scored a triumph in its first public ap- pearance. Led by Scoutmaster ker- met E. Parker and with Baker as | buglc sergeant and Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Wallace A. Davis as drum sergeant, the 16 members of the corps looked and sounded like a veteran organization as they blew and beat their way through Boy Scouts Big Six and, as an en- core, "Semper Fidelis."
 Deadshot Nevermiss. in the per son of Theodore Bertolne, did some remarkable shooting, knocking cracker after cracker out of Francis Beyers' hand without iniuring that member A shadowgraph. "At the Barber shop" was produced by a cast comprising J. Noxon Howard, Fred Sackett, Ralph Merigold. and Walter Brown and created much amusement as the customers hair was cut with lawn shears and his two-inch nails were cleaned with a trowel.
 The troop first aid team, consist ing of Raymond Mainer, Wallace Davis, Richard Quigley, and Dwight Holden, gave q brief demonstration. which was burlesqued by Gordon Ely and Leon Dickinson, who had burst into the chapel as a pair of coal men and continued to make things lively throughout the performance. Several Scenes About New Britain" were disclosed, with Mainer as Chief Noble, Maurice Healy as a con- munist, Wesley Films as Rev. T. A. Greene, and Baker as fearful pedestrian beneath the Central park trees.
 The Pumpknville Center Jazz Band played some horrible music. then peeled it's ovcralls and became the troop orchestra, rendering a pro gram of three numbers. During in termission candy was on sale and sign was carried about urging spectators to keep off the field, as the cadets would use it for marching.
 Mind Reader Mystiies
 Jack Battey, as Rajah Mastold, Jr., opened the second part of the program. Aided by Franklin At water (and, behind screen, by Hollis Foster) he gave mind reading demonstration" which proved hilarious and even, at the end, ac- tually mystifying. Mainer, city champion maker of fire by friction showed his skill by lighting a blaze in this fashion in unusually low time, and the Ely-Dickinson com bination satirized his efforts. Max we'll Coe and Ely then put on a DAiJo oHs Sitltltu ldhc our Pick
 A quartet of tap dancers. Baker. Raymond Wilkins, William Wright and Irving Lurdin, made one of the hits of the evening. They had been tralned by Artemas Stockman, an old-tlmer at this form of entertain ment Baker and Richard Hube gave signalling demonstration, and Ely and Dickinson again burlesoued by signalling while standing on their heads.
 Terrific Ring Battle
 The Battle of All the Centuries, pitting "Beefy' Mainer, 205 pounds. against "Gentleman Dinty" Moore, oo pounds, was possibly the high comic spot of the evening. Moore went through Mainers legs, but the latter finally blew his opponent over and then knocked him into the gallery. Arthur Beyers refereed and William Booth was Mainer's sec ond. X one-act farce. An Awkward squad was produced by a cast in cluding Assistant Scoutmaster Euclid Van l.. Hartune as the captain, Hube as the sergeant, Howard as a "rube," Ely as German. Dickinson as 6 dude, Francis Beycrs as the dudes valet. and Mainer as an lrishman. The performance was concluded with some cheers and the singing of Happy Days by tho troop with the orchestra playing an accompani-
 ment, the boys in the front of the stage gradually bringing into view cards spelling out Good Night"
 Fred Teich was stage manager.
 Troop 19 Boys Advance
 Sixteen members of troop 19 ad- NanCed from tnnderfnot tn sncond