On Friday evening, February 20th, at the High School Auditorium the Kiwanis Club expects to stage the largest, snappiest, and most brilliant home talent production ever witnessed by a local audience. The cast will number over 125 people, including the entire membership of the Kiwanis Club in a wonderful harmony chorus, 35 little girls in a gorgeously costumed butterfly pageant, 10 beautiful dancing flappers, and other notably gifted professionals in the city of Nashville, accompanied by the peppiest jazz orchestra ever assembled under above-mentioned roof.
The first part of the program will be an olio of novelty acts closely resembling the famous Keiths circuit Kiwanians. If you haven’t ever heard the famous Kiwanis quartette, A.W. Futrell, S.F. Austin, C.L. Benson and G.L. Jones; or if you haven’t seen Parson Upchurch and Louis Davenport tripping the light fantastic in petite ballet skirts, then the burlesque rehearsal will be worth your while. Little Miss Frisco in a Tuxedo, high silk hat and walking stick kicking out the fly lights, musical comedy, closing with the famous dance of the Argentine Tango taken from the “Whirl of life.”
The second part of the program will be the grand ensemble combining Al. G. Fields cleverest comedians, Flo Zeigfield’s prettiest chorus girls, and Metropolitans sweetest singers. Each of the Kiwanians armed with a jingling red tambourine will assist considerably in adding to the racket even if they can’t sing. Rehearsals got under way in earnest early this week, and Kiwanians hold forth nightly in the school auditorium at 7 o’clock.
Proceeds will go to the Kiwanis Charity Fund. Admission is only 35 and 50 cents, and from present indications, everybody from miles around will be there. Fun will run riot for two hours, and Kiwanians wish to take this opportunity of expressing the sincerest appreciation of the splendid spirit of cooperation shown thus far by the citizens in helping them out with this, their maiden attempt before the footlights.
From the front page of The Graphic, Nashville, N.C., Feb. 12, 1925
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