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8th image of page showing final 2 pages of program and news clipping that offers a review of the Signallers concert, November 1916.

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  • [start clipping] SIGNALLERS IN GREAT CONCERT --- "At Home and Abroad" Is Big Success. --- Attracts Large Crow to Russell Theatre. --- Lieut. B.C. Hilliam played spark plug in one of the snappiest amateur shows ever seen in the capital, when the officers and men of the Signal Training Depot tuned up and put their big noise "At Home and Abroad" in motion. They pusehd her into "third" and there she stayed - until twelve o'clock. When Hilliam bared his most deceptive stretch of forehead to the foot lights, the audience took him for a theological student, but he slipped them over so fast that it soon became a cry for help. He put over the time frayed marching songs "Keep the Home Fires Burning," and "It's a LOng Way to Tipperary," by classical and syncopated patterns a la Chopin, and Irving Berlin, furbished them up with scintillating paraphrases and they were better even than new. His Golf romance written on the piano was the work of a wizard and the devotees enjoyed it immensly. Some of the Songs. Among the songs which he wrote were "Somewhere in Flanders" sung by Miss Georgia Ferguson, "The Bairnsfather Bloke from Blighty," by Sapper C.W. Casement; "The British Tank," by Sergt. Adamson and "The Halllies Howe an Hawful Lot to Hus," was was sung by Lieut. Hilliam himself, and is perhaps the cleverest of them all. We have long known how Sister Susie helps the alllies but it remained to Lieut. Hilliam to tell us what the rest of the family were busy at. The minstrels with J.H. Grace as interlocutor made a big hit. The end men, J.A. Grace, W. Diamond, F. Rowan and H. Rockington, put over some good stuff, and the chorus made up of S. Anderson, Dan Thompson, J. Melrose, W. Rocket, James Foley, E. Brockington, B. Anderson and J. McLennan sang spendidly. [end column] [start column] Minstrels Good. The minstrels finished the "At Home" section of the show which also featured Teddy Hyman (illegible) sleight of hand tricks. Edna Thomas, George O'Alroy and Hobson put on a little sketch, "The End of the Trail," written by Miss Thomas, which offered the only bit of pathos in the whole performance. It was very well done, and staged admirably. "The Anvil Five," W.J. Nixon A.R. Thompson, H.L. Routh and S.R. Adamson, sang a string of old gems very well, but folks didn't quite get the idea of the pianist, E. Brown, who seemed to have been short circuited. He sat very promi(?) at the instrument, but nothing happened. The C.M.C. Mandolin and Guitar Club raised the curtain, and under the direction of Miss Corinne Thibodeau, won a gib hand from the house with their music. The Training Depot gym. team did some gym. work under the coaching of Lieut. A. Buridge (?), and another squad of picked men put on a musical flag-wagging drill under the direction of Sergt.-Major Steele. The Tommies "Abroad" were seen in a rest camp, staging a bunch of stunts for their own amusement on a platform built "by a petite party of one" as his portion of the entertainment. The following artists dropped in to offer their bit of entertainment: Sapper A. Bentley as a fatigue party of one, Lce.-Cpl. C.H. Westman and Sapper F.H. Beard as sleeping partners, Sapper W.S. Wilson as a fish and potato expert Assembly of Signallers. Sapper Mcveety. Lieut. A. Baxter and chorus in "Laddie in Khaki". Sapper Anderson and Bonnie Mary, Miss Corinne Thibodeau, Sapper C. (illegible) Casement and Miss (Sapper). W. G. Wilson, Sergeant Couville (?), Sapper C.W. casement, Sapper R.G. Jones, Lieut. B.C. Hilliam, Rev. Edward Bull, Miss Grace Hiney, Sergt. S.R. Adamson, Lce.-Corpl. O'Neill, Miss Georgie Ferguson, Sapper Bentley, philosopher T.P. Murphy. [end clipping]
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