NAPIER FRIVOLITY MINSTRELS
President: C. H. Wilkie.
Properties and Effects designed and constructed by Jim Baker.
Bones:
Percy Spiller
Len Dadson
Interlocutor:
George Bullivant
Tambos:
Vernon McCutcheon
Jack Hawke
Circle:
Will Keen, Wally Ireland, Eric Poynter, Gordon Amner, Geoff. Walker, Herbert Marshall, Bill Clothier, Maurice Gray, Stan Armstrong, Jack Atkinson, Johnny Hayes, Robert Wright, Lionel Harris, Cecil Neal, Eric Medcalf, Royce Vercoe, Jack Burgess.
PROGRAMME – PART I.
1. Overture “Passing of the Regiments” “Friv.” Orchestra
2. Opening Chorus “Let’s All Be a Happy Family” The Company
3. English Success “Jolly Good Company Beside the Sea” Gordon Amner
4. Ballad “My Home Under the Hill” Geoff. Walker
5. Comic Song “He Wooed Her and Wooed Her” Vernon McCutcheon
6. Patriotic Number “Gentlemen, The King” Herbert Marshall
7. Octette “World Affairs” The Company
8. Hawaiian Melody “By the Lazy Lagoon” Eric Poynter
9. Comic Song “The Big Camel-e-phant” Len Dadson
10. Military Song “Changing of the Guard” Will Keen
11. Nudist Sextette “It Ain’t Nobody’s Biz’ness” Happiness Boys
12. Ballad “On the Other Side of the Hill” George Bullivant
13. Comic Song “I Wonder Why Poor Nelly Never Writes” Wally Ireland
14. Finale “Oh, No I Haven’t” The Company
INTERVAL
PROGRAMME – PART II.
15. The “Friv.” Orchestra plays the “Continental March, “A Frangesa.”
16. The Harmony Boys present Mouth Organ Melodies.
17. Sambo appears in a Novelty Tap Dance, “Lazybones.”
18. Vernon, Jack, Johnnie and Stan present the Sketch, “The Love Test.”
19. Bill Clothier and Maurice Gray in an Indian Scena, “Blue Cloud.”
20. Peggy Black appears in a Novelty “Skirt Dance.”
21. Cecil and Eric with their Piano Accordians in a Musical “Pot Pourri.”
22. Wally and Percy introduce the latest Novelty, “Headlines.”
23. Bill Clothier and Company present a military number, “When the Guards are on Parade”
24. Will Keen appears in a character number, “Down on My Uppers.”
25. Manrico and Leonora present the “Misery Scene from “Grand Uproar.”
26. Wally Ireland and Percy Spiller appear in a Domestic Interlude.
27. Peggy Black and her bevy of Sun Kissed Beauties in the “Beautiful Blue Danube.”
28. Herbert Marshall presents the English Success, “The Gay Highway.”
29. The Two Apollos in a sensational balancing act.
30. The “Friv.” Orchestra plays an Entracte, “My Creole Queen.”
31. To conclude with the Absurdity—
“THE WEDDING BREAKFAST”
Bride: Maurice Gray Bridesmaid: Stan Armstrong
Bridegroom: Vernon McCutcheon Parson: Percy Spiller
Bride’s Father: Jack Hawke Constable Doris: Bill Clothier
Bride’s Mother: Eric Poynter Waiter: Len Dadson
Best Man: Wally Ireland
GOD SAVE THE KING
Orchestra:
Piano: Cecile Bromley Hill (Musical Directress).
Violins: Lilian Swann, Norman Etheridge, Maurice Daily.
Flute: Alan Clarke. Clarionet: Frank Lloyd. ‘Cello: Jack McCarthy.
Bass: Mark Venables. Cornet: Bert Boston. Trombone : Maurice Buckley.
Saxophone: R. P. McKenzie. Drums & Effects: Royce Nalder.
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