East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-10-11
Beqin Talent Interviews
More Prize
Divisions
This Year

A prize innovation at this years
East Cleveland Kiwanis Talent
Show that is sure to be popularity
received by contestants and audi
ence alike is the division Of talent
into two groups with handsome
cups going to the top three in
each of the two classes.
General chairman Lou Edwards
in meeting with Talent Chair
man Ken r. Vermillion and Miss
Margery Shields and All Martin,
who are again cooperating in stag
ing the show, announced this week
that the two groups have been set
as follows; first, up to and in
cluding II years of age; second,
13 years to 19 years of age in
elusive, the top age limit.
Beautifully designed cups, en-
blematic of the Talent Show acts,
will be presented by East Cleve-
land Kiwanis to the top three acts
in each of the two groups. This
prize presentation undoubtedly will
receive wide acclaim from the
various competing acts and most
assuredly will ease the job for the
judges. In past years the judges
have all remarked that the talent
displayed in East Cleveland was
by far the finest in its class and
that the selection of three top
winners was real tough assign
ment, so closely contested were
all Of the acts.
So this year the 1856 edition of
the popular Kiwanis Talent Show
to be held on November 18th at
Kirk Junior High Auditorium will
see total of six top acts selected
as prize winners. In addition to
the cups every contestant will re-
celve certificate Of participa-
tion" presented by the president of
the East Cleveland Kiwanis Club.
Elsewhere in this issue of the
East Cleveland LEADER may be
found coupon which prospective
talent wishing a tryout for the
show may fill out and mail into
the talent chairman.
The Try-Out schedule is an
nounced as follows by Chairman
Nermillion: Tuesday, October 23rd;
Tuesday October 3Oth; and Tues.
day, November 9Th between the
hours of 7 to. 9 o'clock at Shaw
High School.
A special invitation has gone
out to all students attending pub
lie and parochial schools in East
Cleveland grade, junior high, and
high school classes alike, to par
ticipate more fully in this years
event. Every student with some
ability to perform or act should
try out for this years Kiwanis
Talent Show.
For this seventh annual Talent
Show the Kiwanians again have
Miss Shields and Mr.. Martin to
assist them in the staging of the
various acts. There is vast
amount of work connected with
putting together a show of this
type. The acts must be polished,
changed bit, or perhaps altered
completely to put each and every
contestant in his or her best light.
Miss Shields has been in the
East Cleveland School system in
its musical departments for the
past seventeen years. She was
graduated from the Oberlin Con-
servatory of Music and first served
here as music supervisor for the
elementary schools, next moving to
Kirk to work with the choir, and
for the past six years has been
Director of Vocal Music at Shaw
High School, where her reputa-
ton has been greatest through her
wo"k with the Rhythm Teens"
Mr.. Martins career with the
local school board has been equally
outstanding and he is in his tenth
year as Drama and English in
structor at Kirk Junior High
School. He is a graduate of Ohio
State University and did advance
work at the University of Utah,
where he also did some stage
acting. He has garnered a vast
amount of experience in all phases
of stage work in his services in
different capacities with such
groups as the Shaker players, Ell
dred players, Chagrin Valley Little
Theatre, Harlequin players, Lake
Erie Erie, Pa Summer Theater,
and the Cain Park Theater aggre-
cation.