The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-08
.COLORFUL SHOW OF MINSTRELSY
 IS GIVEN HERE
High Sch ool Boys Give Creditable Performances
 Many Good Features

The second annual High School Boys Glee Club minstrel show is history, but the kind of history that none of the 500 persons in attendance last night at the Grade School Auditorium will soon for get-for they had a pleasant way of learning it.
 The ensemble work was espec- ially good, the boys singing out like professional chorus men, and incidentally Miss Carol Robertson is deserving of credit for the way she accompanied both the solos and choruses and was responsi- ble for a great deal of confidence engendered in the singers.
 The show was colorful and all though the drapings of the stage were plain the color effects blend ed harmoniously and the enter tainment was pleasing to the eye as well as the ear.
 Jokes Are Clean
 The jokes of the end men were clean and well put over while George Whyte as the interlocutor was an ideal feeder and announc- CT, playing his part with the assur- ance of one who had spent years in the business.
 One thing that marked the show as outstanding was the fact that it started sharply one time 8 oclock-and ran exactly one and half hours and closed on sched- ule, which is almost a record for amateur affairs.
 The program was so evenly bal anced that it is hard to pick out any one number that was better than the others. Two or three numbers were of the character that lent themselves to more ap- plause and were outstanding be- cause of their novelty. Among these was the song Me and My Shadow" sung by Jim Cole, Bill Lowe and Tom Fukayama. Fuka- yama is kindergarten pupil and acted as the shadow for Bin Lowe, who had been Coles shadow in the first verse of the song. An other novelty was the Harlem Apache" a dance performed by Jack Kearney and Bud Jenne dur ing the intermission between the first and second parts of the show. They had to respond to an encore. The "Pickaninnies," tumbling act by Bill Lowe and Harry Lu- cas, was a clever stunt and they showed the results of many hours of patient practice.
 Quartet Sings
 A quartet composed by Hiding Haglund, Jinf Cole, Walter Scott and Bud Lindstrom sang "AH Lit tie Green Apple" which was short but sweet-not the apple, but the song.
 The tapping. both chorus and incidental to the songs was well done, the chorus at the end of the first part composed by Bob Turner, Jack Kearney, Dutch Beh- rends, Duncan Robertson, Ken Webster, Cliff Berg. Gerald Bod d;,,c Dpd T;,,Jcfro,,, o,,d Huh Ct,rr rock, being a special novelty
 Another number that attracted considerable attention was the xolyphone solo by Fred Harris. The piano solo by Walter Scott was also enjoyed.
 Three solos with choruses bor- dered on the negro spiritual, which always has a special appeal on account of its plaintiveness. These were Why Darkies Were Born,' by Duncan Robertson and chorus: 70, Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long," by Clancy Con- verse and chorus, and "Hallelu- Jan, Dy Hiding HagIunu ana cnor- us.
 Other old favorite negro melo- dies were 70 Suzanne" by John Krugness, Shelby Tucker, Ed Schaefer, Jack Schaefer and chor- us, and "Heav'n" by the chorus.
 Harmony Is Good
 The chorus for most of the ev- ening sung in unison but in one selection, cant To Hear Me Callin Gardiner the verses of which were sung by Bud Lind strom, the chorus broke into har- mony, and the harmony was good
 Strictly comic songs Lazy Bones,v sung by Dutch BehrendS,