Maurice Winnick's band, with crooners, began the show. They played "My Swiss Hilly-Billy," "Lily of Laguna," "On the Isle of Kytchimiboko," ' "Boo-hoo," and "Pink Elephants."
For one of the songs, Ted Lewis, one of my vocalists, should have worn a top hat. They didn't have one, so he used one of the convict's hats. The men loved it, said Maurice Winnick. "If every audience we play before showed the same appreciation, we shouldn't have cause for grumbling.
Before we began the chorus songs I said to them, "The maneger of this hotel informs me that there is no objection to your joining in the songs. Then we went right away with the old-time choruses."
The Six Viennese Harmony Sisters, who sing traditional songs, were applauded and encored, and so were Gladys and Kusserow, adagio dancers. A. E. Nickels and his banjo, and Jerry Moore, with guitar.
The show closed with the men standing and singing "God Save the King."
Prison officers and their wives made tea for the artists, and the governor, Capt. Scott, and Mrs. Scott helped to serve it in the prison cookhouse.
The entire cabaret gives a nightly show at the Piccadilly Hotel. They went to Maidstone by motor-coach and arrived back shortly before they were due to appear at the hotel,
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