A Challenge.
A team of basketball players composed of the employees of the Woodbury Granite Company, wish in this way to challenge the winners of the Merchants-Clerks game, which was won by the former, to a game to be played in the near future. The W. G.C. boys guarantee to pick up a team that will give the basketball fans of Hardwick a treat and one that will make them lay down on the gym floor and roar with laughter. Their lineup is a State secret, but you all know the material they have down at the sheds, so watch for further announcements.
Vaudeville Entertainment.
The local talent vaudeville entertainment, given by and for the benefit of the Hardwick Academy Athletic Association, at the new Idle Hour Theatre last Thursday evening, drew out an attendance of five hundred people for the two shows, and after expenses were paid the association is better off financially by about $100.00.
It was one of the best variety entertainments pulled off by local talent in a long time, each number eliciting well-deserved applause.
The first number on the program was the real feature number, it being a duet by Master Roland Lyford and Miss Bernice Johnson, entitled, “O, Promise Me.” The way in which this number was rendered, simply brought down the house, both in the singing and the acting. The costumes were made up representing a young bridal couple, and the two young voices were great. They received a great ovation in each appearance and responded to an encore in each show.
The buck and wing dancing act by E. J. Tiffany, the basketball coach, was excellent and the characterization a scream; Cohen’s Divorce, or disvorce, by Guido Barr, as Cohen, and Elwin Thomas, as his lawyer, was very well done; the vocal solo and encore by Miss Edith Bingham, drew their share of the applause, the limericks by Louis B. Tims, the H. A. blackface comedian, and William J. Clemens, as Ikey, a Jewish salesman, were hits, in fact if there were any people in town who were not hit, they were indeed lucky. The Canadien, by M. H. Gill, in dialect impersonations, were well rendered, and that we have a John McCormack, in the person of John Gravel, was not known to many, but we venture to predict that John’s list of engagements for solo numbers will be greatly augmented by his public appearance on this occasion; he has an excellent voice, and was given a cordial welcome; a sketch, interviewing a Granger, with Harlan Rowell, taking the part of Timothy Hay, and Clifton Nunn, as a city reporter and neatly getting the best of the farmer, was very interesting.
Mr. Tiffany stated that to spare the feelings of the audience, the solo by Principal Karl D. Lee, was omitted, and this announcement caused no little comment, as all were desirous of hearing Mr. Lee in a solo number.
It was a fine entertainment of its kind and the association are duly grateful to all who took part and to Mr. Carr for the use of the theatre.
