Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-03-25
Big CAST IS READY
FOR TOP HAT show
Home Talent Stars To Thrill
Crowds At Three Shows
Early Next Week

Bigger and better, and funnier
than ever is "Top Hat" Minstrel,
sponsored by the Merchants Asso-
citation and produced by The Play
makers, which will be presented
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings in the high school audi
torium.
Wednesdays performance will
start at $3.50, Is minutes later than
the Monday and Tuesday shows,
due to church services, This year
the minstrel will be a benefit to
further clean up the Lake Front
and the Wading Pool fund.
Ticket sale has been brisk, Civ
ing evidence that there will be ca
! pacity crowds at all three perform
ances. Seats may be reserved at
Dieringer's Alteration Shop.
Mrs. Ralph Snyder is director
this year with DR.. r. S. Smith as
assistant. Mrs. James Rhiel and
her committee have completed all
new costumes and scenery.
Harold "Tiny" Worst will be in
terlocutor again this year. Fea-
tured also as lend men" are DIR.
Smith as "444"; Oscar Heineman
as "606"; Paul Schmitt as "Ras-
tus"; William Mack as "Blackie";
Norman Willbond as "Lightnin' y;
and Warren McDcugall as
Bones"
Members of the Mems Chorus
include Dick Cover, Alton Nissen,
Ralph Mackey, DR.. Kenneth Car
ter, Manuel Nossaman, Dick Wolf,
C. Alton Cover, Carl Becker,
Charles Adams, George Schade,
Lee Davis, AL Grover.
! Stanley Perry, Norbert Stein,
Gilbert Jaynes, Fred Kohlman,
Austin Montgomery, Gene Bolte,
Ralph Forster, Harold Reitz, DIR.
Donald Burke, Frank Carstens,
and "Boo" Petersen.
Featured among the speciality
performers will be the Barber
Shop Quartette Of Ralph Mackey,
Norbert Stein, Harold Reitz and
Gilbert Jaynes.
Members of the Women's Choir
us are Mrs. James Wolf, Mrs. Rod
ney Lockwood, Mrs Frederick Rad
loft, Mrs. Richard Cover, Mrs. John
Lorentzen, Mrs. Stanley Perry,
Mrs. James Southwood, Mrs. Carl
Waggoner, Mrs. Leighton Mackey,
Mrs. Glen Dieringer, Miss Janice
Gates and Miss Mary. Lou Nc
Richie.
A sure laugh-getter is the mon
ologue and pantomime "Skool
Daze" which will feature Manuel
Nossaman as the Mother, Richard
Cover as the Teacher, Richard
Wolf as Junior, Frank Carstens as
Annabella, and Alton Cover, STAN
ley Perry and Floyd Klingbiel as
"Skool Chilluns".
Among the many speciality per-
formers are Alyce Boiling, "The
Song Bird of Vacationland" Mrs.
William Anderson and DR.. Donald
Burke, comedy dancers; Mrs. STAN
ley Perry, Top Hat Blues singer;
Mrs. William Goebel and Tom
Gaudern, speciality dance.
Mrs. Lee Davis, popular xylo-
phone instrumentalist; Mrs. John
Lorentzen, featured song stylist;
Mayor Carl Becker as the Long
Lost Bill Bailey; "Red" Nissen,
the Hot Foot Dancer; "Mate"
Montgomery and Oscar Heineman,
popular banjo artists; Bill Ander-
son, the Frank Sinatra" of Port
Clinton, and Marilyn Sprenger
adams, Solovox artist.
The Top Hat orchestra, hottest
band in Port Clinton, will feature
J. L. McPeek, Paul Garberson and
Oscar Heineman.
Sunday Matinee
A special dress rehearsal for
children under high school age
will be held Sunday afternoon at
| ~'1c Ia Vic SIiiOOl
when the youngsters will be ad-
mitted for 25 cents.
Only 250 reserved seats remain
to be sold at press time Thursday.
Those who have tickets should re-
serve their seats as soon as pos
sible as only $50 general admis-
sion seats will be available for
each night. These general admis-
sion tickets may be purchased at
the ticket window each night for
one dollar.
Mrs. William Fielder has had
her large crew of seamstresses on
duty from early morn until late
at night, designing and sewing the
swankiest and most colorful cos
tunes ever seen in local produc-
tion. Artist Priscilla Rhiel and
her workers have completed OUT
standing scenery and the setting