Show 152 STUDENT LIFE Millet Powell and all of this made a dungeon dark for the pirates bold of a very passing order So much for the stage itself The costumes while not as elaborate as the “Little Tycoon’s” were altogether fitting and proper The look just as good without this superficial beauty Now as to the police Logan could be proud of such a force as this one was All of them were six and were built on the square” They packed clubs and a wore tin stars and possessed the “Pirates” looked as blood thirsty lot “as ever trod a main” for the necessary dignity that a few of us long haired wigs marooned colored hear so much about now All in all the chorus was a good apparel with a sundry assortment of grease paint daggers knives looking bunch which sang well and swords (pronounced as it is acted well dressed well and acquitted themselves well As one old written) would have scared a com“hubby” said : “They might only pany of Uncle Sam’s boys in blue The girls’— well right now the be kids but they know how to look stage manager wants to say that he and how to sing in this opry busthinks that those kids or their iness" Of real acting of course there or their dressmakers mothers know how to make apparel fit for was but little opportunity for it as any sister of his (although he the effort was mostly of a musical hasn’t any old enough to sing in a nature but what there was was all chorus or get cases) The dresses there The cues were taken well and the whole thing went through of the chorus girls were superb Xow that could mean anything but like a shot The Pirates of Penzance contains we mean to convey the idea that the dresses were not of a type Sullivan’s best light music and which are usually found on the much of Gilbert’s best work and was for a long time the most popustage but were real costumes lar comic opera on the English There were ribbons brocades In it are the original type laces silks and satins and what stage not and all put together by “fairy waltz and topical songs which have in one form or another been incorhands unseen” so as to work wonders porated into nearly every comic Of course rouge and grease opera written since Those which paint were used to improve the are in the “Pirates” made up of Gilbert’s best poetic efforts and Sullassies’ faces but all of this has dislivan’s best themes have degenerappeared by now in spite of Ralph ated today with a consequent deMoore’s earnest pleading for 'them of popular taste into to always ornament themselves generation tlie “Only One Girl” stuff of “modwith drug store supplies To some ern” opera and the average audiof the fellows some of the girls ence of today often fails to appre- footers |