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Image courtesy of Eldon Harms.
They weren't dressing that way for Halloween — it was their costume for a performance by the W.G. Haan students of an operetta, Seeing Nellie Home, in May 1937.*
The two boys were Eldon Harms and
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*This seems to be the gist of the notes on the back, but I haven't been able to locate any such operetta. "Seeing Nellie Home" may have been a featured song rather than the name of the operetta.
**[11/4/2014 update] Whoever wrote the notes on the back of the photo was wrong, or so Eldon Harms has told me: it was Delmer "John" Foreman under that donkey suit with him, not Lorin Butt. And they took turns playing the front and the back of the donkey.
Good chance Butt played the rear :D
ReplyDeleteYou just couldn't resist, could you? :)
ReplyDeleteNo sorry, it's like it wrote itself :)
ReplyDeleteIt was too good to be true :)
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