Programme 1936 – 39th Annual Entertainment

39th
ANNUAL
ENTERTAINMENT

BY THE

FRIVOLITY
MINSTRELS

TO BE HELD IN THE
FORESTERS’ HALL, NAPIER,

ON

SATURDAY – MONDAY – TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 21ST, 23RD & 24TH, 1936
AT 8 P.M.

IN AID OF THE CHILDREN’S HOME.

Price 3D.

Earney & McKenzie, Printers.

PROGRAMME

INTERLOCUTOR:
GEORGE BULLIVANT

BONES:
PERCY SPILLER
VERNON McCUTCHEON

TAMBOS:
JIM HAMILTON
JACK HAWKE

CIRCLE:
WALLY IRELAND, ROY GIRLING, GORDON BAILEY, LEN DADSON, CECIL NEAL, GEOFF WALKER, ERIC POYNTER, JOHNNY CROSS, LIONEL HARRIS, JOE TRUMAN, GORDON AMNER, JACK ATKINSON

Stage-Manager: JIM BAKER.

1.   Overture –   “Passing of the Regiments,”   – Orchestra.
2.   Opening Chorus –   ” Let’s keep the Party Bright”   – Company.
3.   Ballad –   “Old Mammy Mine”   – Geoff Walker.
4.   Comic –   “And so do all My Pals”   – Vernon McCutcheon.
5.   Sextette –   “Bingo Farm”   – Company.
6.   Military –   “St. James’s Park”   – George Bullivant.
7.   Ballad –   “Granny’s Song at Twilight”  – Eric Poynter.
8.   Comic –   “Let’s have a basinful of the Briny”   – Jim Hamilton.
9.   Ballad –   “In the Valley of Yesterday”   – Joe Truman.
10.   Sextette –   “There’s a Song they sing at a sing song in Sing Sing”   – Happiness Boys.
11.   English Success –   “Bathing in the Sunshine”   – Roy Girling.
12.   Comic –   “Nobody loves a Fairy when she’s Forty”   – Wally Ireland.
13.   Finale –   – Company.

INTERVAL

14.   Overture –    The March: “For Liberty”   – Orchestra.
15.   The Harmony Boys appear in Vocal and Instrumental Melodies.
16.   Joe Truman sings a Yodelling Number.
17.   Admiral George Bullivant and Ship’s Company, including Pop Eye, appear in “Meet the Navy.”
18.   Wally Ireland and Percy Spiller, patterologists, present – “Wedding Bells.”
19.   Cecil, Johnny and Vernon with Piano-Accordian, Guitar, and Mandolin in Novelty Items.
20.   Short Nail Sam and his Chinese Troupe in Mysterious Magic.
21.   Roy Girling and George Bullivant in an Old-time Number – “Won’t you play a Simple Melody.”
22.   Jim Hamilton appears in an Eccentric Dance.
23.   Erico and Jerico present a Mexican Serenade.
24.   “Tne Three Apollos” – Lionel, Gordon and Geoff appear in their thrilling Equilibrist Act.
25.   The Friv. Orchestra plays an Entracte.
26.   Grand Finale – “The Honeymoon Hotel” – by the Company.

“NATIONAL ANTHEM.”

ORCHESTRA.
Piano:   MRS BROMLEY HILL, (Musical Directress).
Violins:   Miss Lilian Swann, N. Etheridge, W. P. Mitchell, M. Daily.
Flute:   A. Clarke.   Clarinet: F. Lloyd.   Saxophone: R. P. McKenzie.
‘Cello:   J. McCarthy.   Bass: M. Venables.   Trumpet: A. Boston.
Trombone:   N. Nicholson.   Drums: R Nalder.

During tho 39 years of their existence, the “FRIVS.” have given performances in the following places :-
Bay View
Cambridge
Clive
Dannevirke
Elsthorpe
Eltham
Eskdale
Featherston
Feilding
Fernhill
Greenmeadows
Greytown
Gisborne
Hamilton
Hastings
Haumoana
Havelock
Martinborough
Masterton
Meeanee
Napier
New Plymouth
Omakere
Onga Onga
Opotiki
Otane
Paki Paki
Palmerston N.
Pakowhai
Papakura
Porangahau
Port Ahuriri
Pukahu
Puketapu
Puketitiri
Putorino
Rissington
Rotorua
Ruataniwha
Sherenden
Stratford
Taihape
Taradale
Taumarunui
Taupo
Tauranga
Te Aute
Te Pohue
Tikokino
Wanganui
Waikoau
Waipawa
Waipukurau
Wairoa
Westshore
Whakatane
Whakatu

THE “FRIVS.” require new costumes urgently.
HELP US ! –  by buying Art Union Tickets during the Interval for Bathing Belle No. 4, Miss Dorothy Lambert.