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in those operas are still popular today: “The Chocolate Soldier,” “Come Be My Hero,” “The Firefly, “ “Sympathy,” “Madame Sherry,” “Every Little Movement,” “The Rose Maid,” “Spring Maid,” “Student Prince” and “The Gingerbread Man.When “The Gingerbread Man” appeared there was an advertisement in The Herald that Dentier and Merker’s Bakery would give away one thousand gingerbread men to the boys and girls who called at their bake shop. I got in line so many times that I had the front of my blouse almostfilled with gingerbread men before I was recognized and Mr. Merker shut me off.Stock companies were also popular during this particular period. One stock company named Garside, Condit Mack always appeared every year. There would be six shows with a Saturday matinee. The prices were 10, 20 and 30 cents. Most of the shows were melodramas, such as “Two Orphans, “The Country Cousin,” “Michael StrogoEf - For God, The Czar and For My Country,” One of the last stock companies to appear here was Bob Ott. One of the young dancers with this company later became and still is one of the best dancers in the country, Ray Bolger.Among the hardy perennials that I looked forward to seeing each year was “A1 Wilson, the Golden Voiced Tenor,” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “Vogels,” “Hi Henry’s” and “A1 Field’s Minstrels.”The Titusville Opera House also served as a community center for many occasions Memorial Day exercises, high school graduation, political speeches, home talent productions, oil men’s meeting and so forth. A good part of :he old Titusville disappeared
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jun 17, 1959
Page 9
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Benson M.
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