Programme 1930 tour

PRINCESS THEATRE
HASTINGS
WEDNESDAY, 6th OCTOBER ’09

Grand Entertainment
by the Frivolity Minstrels
Now in 13th tear of Organisation

Pianist   Mrs J. A. Stevens
Musical Director   Mr J. A. Stevens
Secretary   Mr J. Biss
Stage Manager   Mr S. P. Spiller
Assistant Stage Manager   Mr C. H. Wilkie
Director of the Ballet   Mr F. Peat
Property Master   Mr A. Leevers

Orchestra:- Messrs Lyttleton, Mitchell, Hutchinson, violins; Tombs, vioIa; Hay, flute; Marbrook, oboe; Wyatt, clarinet; Carver, King, cornets; Grubb, bassoon; George, trombone; Leevers, horn; Madigan, bass; King, drums.

Circle.- Messrs Bebe, Mearns, Tudehope, Liddle, Cranby Page, King, Schwartz, Richards, Stevens, Mutimer
O’Shanassy, Bayliss, Willis and Meredith

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PROGRAMME

We know that Frivolity is nonsense; but if you stick at everything because it is nonsence you won’t go far in this life.

PART 1.- MINSTRELSY
Interlocutor, Chas. Prebble
Bones
George Tankard
Perce Spiller
Jack Biss

Tambos
Bert Knox
Frank Peat
Arthur Ewards

1.   Overture “Popular Georgia”   Friv. Orchestra
(E Boettger)
2.   Opening Chorus   Company
Introducing “I know that I’ll be happy till I die ”
“Honey I’m wait’in”   “The Coloured Major.”
3.   Coon Song “Dat’s the way to Spell Chicken”   G. Tankard
4.   Patriotic Song “Wake up, N.Z.”   D. Mearns
5.   Comic Song “I’ve Struck a Chorus”   B. Knox
6.   Ragtime End Song “Dat Coon he don’t love me”   J. Biss
7.   Plantation Song “Honey, you’se ma lady love ”   H. King
8.   Ethiopian Ditty ” You’ll get all ”   F. Peat
9.   Finale Chorus   Company
Introducing “Dear good Mr Best” ” When the Whip Poor Will Sings, Marguerite”   “Smokey Mokes”

10 MINUTES INTERVAL

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PART 2.

10.   Overture “Nigger Alley” “King Cotton”   Friv. Orchestra
11.   Heavy Weight Juggling   Prof. J. Huber
12.   Song “Seven Sisters”   W. J. A. Schwartz
13.   Song and Dance “The Big 3½”   F. Peat, G. Tankard, J. Biss, P. Spiller
14.   Comic Song “My Heart’s Good”   A. Edwards
15.   Flute Solo “La Serenata”   L. Hay
16.   Comic Interlude “Sea Shells”   B. Knox
17.   Indian Scena “Reed Bird”   D. Mearns and G. Tudehope
18.   Topical Song “Lost my only chance of being a Hero”   J. Biss
19.   Song “The Skipper”   F. O’Shannassy
21.   Irish Eccentricity Callaghan”   F. Peat
21.   Comique Reverie “Sliding Jim”   Orchestra
(with Glissando effects by Trombone) Friv. Orchestra

To conclude with the Screaming Farce
“THE LUNATIC ASYLUM”
Doctor Straightjacket, M.A.D.   P. Spiller
Billy Banger (the new keeper)   J. Biss
Mrs Shingleshortson   T. Liddle
Bonaparte Wellington   C. Prebble
Ghost   J. Gimlet
Johnson (World’s Champion)   G. Tankard

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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PRINTED BY A. A. GEORGE. KARAMU ROAD. HASTINGS

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Business / Organisation

Napier Frivolity Minstrels

Format of the original

Leaflet

Date published

6 October 1909

People

  • Jack Biss
  • Arthur Ewards
  • J Gimlet
  • L Hay
  • Professor J Huber
  • H King
  • Bert Knox
  • A Leevers
  • T Liddle
  • D Mearns
  • F O'Shannassy
  • Frank Peat
  • C Prebble
  • W J A Schwartz
  • S (Perce) P Spiller
  • Mrs J A Stevens
  • J A Stevens
  • George Tankard
  • G Tudehope
  • C H Wilkie

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449035

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