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Show ' As the entertainment progressed the ,,, .-Interest .-Interest of the audience heightened '' :( and there, was frequent applause. Every one' listened with closest atten-; atten-; tlon and at the conclusion -the com-ment com-ment from the various members of the audience was one of applause. "Wasn't it wonderful?" "T never saw anything like it before," "It was the best entertainment enter-tainment in Bingham this fwinterf and other like expressions were heard throughout the hall and on the streets. There was no mistaking the facts that the visitors were entertained. entertain-ed. And no one had to wait to hear another say bo before deciding that the operetta was a good one. The paraphernalia was appropriate and attractive, the singing, the reciting, recit-ing, the dialogues, the monologues . were par excellence and every feature of the attraction appeared to be without with-out a flaw, and apparently was carried car-ried out in detail as planned. Follow- lng is the cast of characters: .Mother Goose, Maxlne Kelly; Miss ': Muffet. Verona Darrenougue; Jack . ; Sprat, Osborne IBrown; Jack Sprat's Wife, Margaret Stapleton; Knave of 1 Hearts, Rowland Browning; liong Man, Holger Peterson; Crooked (Man, Ken- 1 neth Ixtt; Jack Horner, Leonard Mil- ,'; ler; Tommy Tucker, Tory Tobiason; Jack, David Jones; Jill, Florence Bates; Robinson Crusoe, Henry Key-saw; Key-saw; King Cole, Roy Ferre; General Byng's chorus. Frank Oseletto, Karl Shaw, Domenlck Appero, Murlllo Berry, Ber-ry, Marcel Evans, Samuel Jftnkins; Goose Girl' chorus, Fae Clays, 'Ruth Henry, Clara Zion, Olive Schoettlin, Katherine Chandler, Sybil iLattif, Irene Connary, Idella Davis; Deeple Dump- ; .", ling, Russell; Little Boy, John Greene; t His Wife. Melba Jones; Peter Piper, ' Jay Roundy; Wise Man, Darius , 1 Adams; Mistress Mary, Margaret ' , Grant; Priest, Lonie Murano; Maiden, Maid-en, Sadie Berk; Tattered Man, Manuel Gutreires; Bo-Peep, Katherine iSchmit; Boy Blue, Daniel Johnson ; ' , Peter Pumpkin, George Babbitas; His Wife, Antoinette Green; Little Girl,. Bessie Kapple;Queen of Hearts. Melba Bales; Humpty Dumpty. Glenn Wright; Milk Maids, Gertrude Gerrans, Esther Lu-beck, Lu-beck, Dessie Stuart; Mother Hubbard, Florence Stuart; Dame Trott, Zada Cray, Alta Miller. Gertrude Lubeck; Bramble Blush. Stella Stillman, Pearl Reece, (Rose Milano, Ruth McCullough; Daffy Down Dilly, Margaret Lundgren. Ruby Lundgren, Mary Ellon Hyland, 1 Nettie Hyland, iFlorence Mayne. SCHOOL OPERETTA" PLEASES PATRONS One test and the best test of the quality of any attraction is the manner in which it takes with the audience. An attraction may please one or a dozen people immensely and still be a failure. No show is a good one unless it holds the attention and pleases the audience. And that Is what the nevel cesa. In the first place he selected something that was in a way new and at the same time something with which practically every one was familiar. Everybody had heard of Mother Goose and her catchy rhymes, but still this very operetta was full of Interest from beginning to finish, and the manner in which it was presented showed that the students had been well trained and that they knew how to render their several parts In the most effective manner possible. ) By way of introduction Mr. South-. South-. wick gave a little history which re-ivealed re-ivealed to many people that Mother Goose was a real person. She was a I Miss Foster born in IBoston in 1665. and interesting operetta, "Mother Goose." did Thursday afternoon and j Thursday evening of last week when j presented to large audiences at Can-1 yon hall by the Btudents, The operetta was presented under the direction of A. J. Southwick, instructor in-structor of music at the high school. In arranging for the p:ay, Mr. Southwick South-wick did everything that was neces-sary neces-sary to make the entertainment a suc- married a man named Ver Goose, and was nicknamed by her friends, "Mother "Moth-er Goose." 'Later when she began a literary career she wrote under the name by which her rhymes are universally univer-sally known. Excellent music was furnished by the Stag Time Seven orchestra and Miss Adine Brownie, talented musician, music-ian, played accompaniments for all rehearsals. |