Friday# December 15# 1950
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Page Fifteen
Pinehurst Lions
Give Successful
Minstrel Here
Large Cast Pleases
With Songs, Dances
For School Band
An almost fuU auditorium
greeted the exuberant Pinehurst
Lions Club Minstrel Revue when
it was presented here, for what
was announced as POS-I-TIVELY
.the last time, the evening of Tues
day, December 5.
The hardworking performers
had played to packed houses two
nights at Pinehurst and one night
it Aberdeen. School projects ben
efited each time—here, the band
uniform fund. For two solid
hours, the 30-person cast of
Southern Pines and PinehurSt
performers dished out songs,
dances, jokes and general “fool-
ishment,” not always in fastidious
taste but good-natured and laugh-
provoking.
Adaptable as a cl^ameleon, the
show during its four-time run
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dropped some jokes and added
others, added songs and dances,
changed some of the skits, and
with merry insouciance hung its
wisecracks on local personalities
in each of the different towns.
Jimmy Gilbert as “Mister Inter
locutor” was smoother than ever,
and the endmen turned in polish
ed performances. There was one
jsutfetitution—^Harold Callaway
for Bill Wall. They put over some
fine old songs in grand style, with
Jimmy Lane carrying off the
honors in this field. This bouncy
lad got better with each number
and finally managed to stop the
show with “Is It True What They
Say About Dixie?” Other high
lights of song were “There’s Yes,
Yes in Your Eyes,” by Jimmy
Hobbs with Margaret Hobbs and
Helen Herschell; “Darktown
Strutters’ Ball” by Frank and Hu
bert McCaskill; “Winter Wonder
land” by Wesley and Kathryn
Stoltz, and “A Good Man is Hard
to Find,” by Dora Wedlock.
Dancing stars Robert Speller,
Jr., and Anne Hamor added a
sparkling note of near-profession
al grace and glamor.
With a total of 25 zestful mem
bers interlarded with jokes, the
musicians did a masterly job, skil
fully binding all together with
silky rhythm. These were a sex-
tet-^immy Lawson at the organ.
Tommy Vann and his drums,
Todd Baxter and his cello, Buster
Doyle and his electric guitar, Da
vid Bailey with hjs trumpet and
Bob Kyle and his clarinet. Mrs.
Lamar Smith' at the piano gave
smooth accompaniment.
Robert Speller directed the
show. •
Endmen were Tom Black, Jim
my Hobbs, Bill Herschell, Jimmy
Lane, Frank McCaskill, Hubert
McCaskill, Wesley Stoltz and
Harold Callaway. Others in the
cast were Larry Lyerly, Frank
Bost, Joe C. Thomas, Gordon
Cameron, Robert Speller, Jr., Ed
Swaringen, R. A. Hamor, A. H.
Garrison, Jr., Keith Wedlock, Bill
Hepderson, Evelyn Cameron,
Jean Lylerly, Dora Wedlock, Kath
ryn Stoltz, Anne Hamor, Marga
ret Hobbs, Marjorie Gilbert,
Helen Herschell, Mayrtrice Mc
Caskill, Alice Thomas and Idelle
Hamor, with Jimmy Gilbert as in
terlocutor.
Maxine Speller was responsible
for the handsome and colorful
costuming; Alice Baxter, for two
clever backdrops; Violet Caul
field, makeup; Martha Aden,
dance direction. In charge of prop
erties were Hugh Carter, D. H.
Whitesell, W. D. Herschell, R. A.
Hamor, Ralph Horner and Jake
Haifler."
As Oijie Editor To Another
teachers, held last Wednesday in
the office of their supervisor, Mrs.
Beulah McPherson, at Carthage.
Mrs. Frances Adams of the Car
thage school presided over the
program.
i Mrs. Gordon Cameron led with
a discussion of choral reading,
first teaching a poem to the teach
ers as if they were classroom pu
pils, then explaining the separa
tion of children into high, low and
mediurn voice groups for effective
verse reading.
Miss Louise Leslie of Vass-
Lakeview school discussed arith
metic problems, and the methods
of stating them.
Mr. Langston, principal of Car
thage Elementary school, showed
the uses of the fihn-strip projec
tor in classroom work, explaining
the cost of the machine and how
to get film strips for the school.
Planning committee for the
meeting consisted of Mrs. Adams,
Mrs. Kate Charles of Aberdeen
and Miss Donaldson of West End.
For the January meeting, Mrs.
Gordon Cameron was appointed
chairman of the planning com
mittee, assisted by Mrs. Evelyn
Smith of Cameron and Mrs. Helen
Herschell of Southern Pines.
CURB MARKETS
Curb markets sponsored in Ab
erdeen and Southern Pines by the
Home Demonstration clubs of
Moore county will be conducted
Friday, December 22, nekt week,
rather than on Saturday as usual,
it was announced this week at the
office of Miss Flora McDonald,
Moore County Home Demonstra
tion agent.
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Hugh McNair Kahler, noted author of short stories and novels,
now fiction editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, recently paid a visit
to Southei-n Pines.
The above picture was made when he came down to visit The
Pilot one day and was persuaded to sit in the editor’s chair. We
don’t know what he and Editor Katharine Boyd are having such an
entertaining time about. Maybe he’s telling her how to run The
Pilot to make it come out more like the Ladies Home Journal—or
could be the other way around.
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Or perhaps they are just rem
iniscing about the fine tipies they
used to have in the Sandhills back
in the 1920’s when he and Mrs.
Kahler lived down here, apd he
was raising peach and pecan trees
and trying to start a career as a
writer at the same time (the
writing won out).
They live now in Princeton, N.
J. Their daughter Kingsley, a lit
tle girl when they lived here, is
now Mrs. Frank Winfield Hubby,
3rd, also of Princeton. She has two
sons and two daughters, ever-
absorbing subjects of interest to
their grandparents—but the Kah-
lers say their thoughts keep tiurn-
ing back to Southern Pines, and
they hope to come and stay a long
time soon.
Editor Kahler of the LHJ wrote
the following for The Pilot, ex
plaining just how he felt;
When Gene Stevens was mak
ing us officially and personsfly
welcome on our return to South
ern Pines after. 30-odd years of
absence, he named a lot of other
exiles who have also been coming
back.
He said he thought that this
confirmed the old idea that any
body who stays here long enough
to get Moore County sand in his
shoes has to come back sooner or
Sixth Grade
Teachers Hold
Group Meeting
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Three teachers presented a dis
cussion program on phases of
sixth grade work, at the year’s
first professional group meeting
of Moore County sixth grade
later for more.
That was the theme, all old
timers will remember, of Kather
ine Ball Ripley’s lovely novel
about life in the Sandhills, when
we all were planting peach trees
and some people, John Gals
worthy fpr one, thought we had
found the secret bf a new kind of
country living.
I think there ^s a lot of truth in
the idea, that everybody who
gives himself a chance to fall in
love with this strange wilderness-
paradise will stay in love with it
always. I know that I shall. But
not just because of the peace.
There is a very special kind of
friendliness waiting here for the
homecoming wanderer that hasn’t
changed in all the years since I
first encountered it.
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