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Show High School Opera To Be Given March 21, 22 Elaborate Lighting Effects And Scenery Will Add To Performance To Begin At 8 :15 p. m., In SIIS Auditorium The Springville High School music department will present the opera, "Soma" in the school auditorium Thursday Thurs-day evening, March 21, and Friday evening, March 22, beg-inning- at 8:15 p. m. The first evening will be for students and those townspeople who desire to attend. Friday will be for the general public. Approximately 75 students, including in-cluding about fourteen leads, will be heard in the opera production, i Elaborate costumes and lighting effects, together with beautiful scenery being made especially by the Art department, will add to the effectiveness of the entertainment. entertain-ment. Golden Hanson is general director direc-tor with Harmon Hatch leading the orchestra. Miss Beth Evans is in charge of the dramatics and Miss Ella Adamson, dancing. Nola Loveridge is student director. The opera has a Russian setting sett-ing and evolves around the story of a Russian girl, Sonia Markova, who is attending college when she hears that her father, whom she has never seen, is alive in a Siberian Siber-ian prison, and will be able to escape es-cape if sent money. Pat Dunn, the college hero, is in love with Sonia and suspects the source of the letter. The girl plans to go to Russia herself to rescue her father. In Act II, Sonia arrives with her college chums, and a series of exciting events transpire through this act and into Act III, where she finds her father and the mystery of the whole affair is i unravelled. ! In addition to a full evening of I musical entertainment, the pro- duction offers a chance for towns-1 towns-1 people to see what is being accom-, accom-, plished in the music department ' of the school. The students and directors have spent many weeks in preparation j of the opera which is expected to ' be one of the best produced here. |