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- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 14
Marlin, Texas, Monday, May 18, 1931

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
NUMBERS MARK LUNCHEON

Waco School of Personality Entertainers
Appear in
Marlin

       Members of the Greater Marlin Club were regaled with vocal and instrumental selections at their weekly luncheon in the Hilton sun room today by artists from Mrs. Agnes Barnes' School of Personality at Waco.  G. W. Glass was elected chairman for the meeting two weeks hence.
       Presented by R. E. Cox, Jr., chairman of the day; Mrs. Barnes voiced appreciation for opportunity to present her students in Marlin.  Her daughter, Miss Camille Barnes, sings each Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and gives dance numbers each Saturday at nine p. m. over station WACO, while other artists from the school appear frequently in radio programs and entertain at dinners, luncheons and other functions.  Mrs. Barnes, herself an accomplished musician and entertainer, for two years has received the State Fair of Texas award for the best composer, the chairman stated.
       Today's program provided plenty of personality for those attending the luncheon.  It opened with an instrumental trio selection given by O. A. Barton, Jr., and Misses Alice Clawson and Loraine Bletsch with Mrs. Barnes at the piano.  Followed a blues number by Miss Clawson and for diversification a saxaphone (sic) selection.  Miss Bletsch then appeared in the dual role of singer and reader, after which Miss Helen Bauman sang and the 13-year old O. A. Barton, Jr., gave cowboy and blues songs, interspersed with yodeling and playing his own stringed instrument accompaniment.
       All were greeted with bursts of applause, a rising vote of thanks being extended to the entertainers at the close of the program.

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