Programme 1938 – 40th Annual Performance

NAPIER FRIVOLITY MINSTRELS
INAUGURATED 1898

40th Annual Performance

Commemorating the Official Opening of the New Napier Municipal Theatre

Saturday & Monday, June 4th & 6th, 1938

PROGRAMME 3D

SWAILES PRINT NAPIER

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.

List of Past Performances given by the Frivolity Minstrels

During the 40 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